underloved

Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything.

But zucchini, summer's most underloved vegetable (technically, yes, it's a fruit), comes in for a lot of grief.

They are small, overlooked and underloved.

Ms. Barr is the oversized, underloved wife who takes revenge on her husband and his svelte, pretty mistress.

He was cross and irritable, overtraveled, underslept, underloved.

Overworked and underloved.

Pizzas were pointless, underloved, wan.

She is inadequate, he is unjust, and Catherine, overparented and underloved, is at their mercy.

Her life is threatened by another of her underloved sonny-boy spies: Silva, whom she turned over to Chinese agents for torture 15 years ago.

Esther is "overlooked and underloved" and is one of the serial's characters that do not get their chance in the "spotlight that they so deserve".

We look at companies in that space and the consolidation that's taken place, and we think U.S. financials are underowned and underloved.

"On the Water" is narrated in a series of flashbacks by Anton, an overly sheltered, if underloved, boy sentenced to an adolescence in a public housing project.

To one of the partners of Heron, Ronni Lynn Arougheti, co-op management is "a crazy field," in which managing agents are underpaid and underloved.

Much of the material in "French Romantic Sculpture From Rude to Préault" at Charles Janoray may be unfamiliar and underloved these days.

Today the 40 or so remaining structures, which were set aside in 1925 as Cahokia Mounds State Park, look a little neglected, a little underloved by the modern world.

Much of the material in this carefully selected show may be underloved these days, but the gallery's stylish installation (dark-paneled rooms, heavy swag curtains) makes a persuasive case for it.

Not everyone recognizes how badly sharks have been overfished and underloved - victims of Asia's hunger for shark-fin soup and sport fishermen's yearning for a shark-slaying testosterone fix.

PARIS — Long an underwhelming also-ran of European soccer, underloved by most everyone but the French, France’s top league has entered what seems a new era, one of eye-popping salaries and international attention.

WITH his first novel, "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis made a name for himself here and abroad with an account of life among the overdrugged, underloved rich kids of southern California.

Ordinarily this master of overlooked and underloved material wouldn’t fit the description, but his current wall pieces, made from black umbrella nylon, draped, folded and printed with polka dots, bring to mind Bela Lugosi capes and very large bats.

Wearing streaks of green face paint, he unspools his spiel with poetic sagacity, like he's the Homer of Hollywood: "The Sunset Strip is a civilization for the brokenhearted, the mistreated, the overlooked, the underloved and the doomed."

Underloved on its release if not unnoticed (it racked up awards in Asia), the original version was overshadowed by the pop-happier “Chungking Express,” which Mr. Wong shot and completed during a several-month break from “Ashes of Time.”

Brief daydreaming sequences of the adult Rachel also appear, including those showing her imagining seizing a stolen moment with the school's possibly sexual-harassing principal; taking an underloved boy in her classroom home with her; and rocking the expected baby in a park while children play nearby.

These are stories of misfiring love: love that fails because her characters are too proud to reveal their feelings or too weak to resist meddling from their friends, or because they're so oversexed, underloved and overintoxicated that they've never paused to ask themselves what love really means.