head; brains; intellect; understanding
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with
for today; for the time being
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot
to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
reliance; trust; faith; confidence
veil of darkness; curtain of night
to cease; to stop; to be over
to get out of bed; to show a leg
corridor; hallway; passageway
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
ghost; revenant; spirit (of the dead); departed soul
to stand (still) a while; to loiter; to stop
aimlessly; unexpectedly (showing up); slowly swaying; staggering; moving feebly
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
to constrict one's chest; to wring one's heart; to wrench one's heart
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
self-condemnation; self-reproach; self-accusation
to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
immediately; right away; at once; instantly
error of judgment; miscalculation
fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-
to expose to danger; to imperil; to jeopardize
to shake one's head (in denial)
one's eyes; (pair of) eyes
to fill (with); to be filled with; to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)
sense of loss; feeling of loss
to leave (someone) alone; to leave to oneself; to leave (someone) be