"mood" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mournful mood, reflecting the destruction of both a 39-year-old leader and a movement's momentum, is set by a recording of Mahalia Jackson singing "Precious Lord," just as she did at Dr. King's funeral.
- Chandler was keenly aware that his once-distinctive style had been so widely imitated that, as he put it, "you begin to look as if you were imitating your imitators"; but it's also plainly a reflection of his mournful mood.
- The mournful mood was sustained by a recording of a chamber orchestra playing "Ave, Verum Corpus," by Mozart.
- He also breaks into the mournful mood of his piece with a less emotionally fraught subplot about art fraud.
- Surrealistic, political and painted in a simplifying style, his medium-large pictures of fighting birds, gridded flags, imperial architecture, regal dogs and empty parks allegorize international politics in an enigmatic, mournful mood (Johnson).
- Mr. Blanchard's disfigured quotation from "Amazing Grace," in "Malcolm X," certainly conjures up a mournful mood that matches the film.
- His trademark was the impish figure Srulik, a boy in shorts, sandals and a brimless Israeli sun hat whose expressions reflected the sharp swings of the Israeli public mood: alternatively defiant, mournful, triumphant or perplexed.
- In a mournful mood she took the horses around to the stables, and at last the mystery in regard to Pymfyd's disappearance was clarified.
- A noirish, mournful mood hovers over the show.
- Its mood, at once mournful and exuberant, owes something to the spirit of samba, Rio's great contribution to world culture.
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