Next time you are moping over your bank balance, take heart you're not Zimbabwe.

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Such strict disciplinary action would have them pouting and moping around for days.

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The open back of a truck would reveal delivery men moping on piles of sacks, or dozing among pink and blue bales of cloth.

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Instead of moping, he took one of the first paying jobs he could find: unskilled labor on construction sites in the metro New York area.

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She quickly returned home and from the moment she got off the plane to resume her battle with leukemia, she issued an order to her parents: no moping and no tears.

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"We were moping around and second-guessing ourselves, " recalls Jon.

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If this still seems like nothing more than a bodice ripper with a twist, it is balanced by Bella's near-epic moping at the vicissitudes of love, which supplants for large tracts of the movie the place of a conventional plot.

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Then comes a car chase through the foggy forest to which he has fled, and, lastly, a bizarre and moping chamber piece, with our hero holed up in a deserted house, lashings of cold rain, and a pair of useless police officers bickering over his doom.

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