dolefulness

At other times, she feels the need for dolefulness.

Why is it that dolefulness and a sense of futility are so irresistible to young women?

He returned to the office, his mind, with customary dolefulness, on his brother-in-law.

Ms. Gillette wonders with amusing dolefulness.

But with the dire postscript, his face fell, and his expression became one of deep dread and utter dolefulness.

Another clucks and shakes her head in sycophantic dolefulness at the injustice shown to Ms. Brown by those who saved her from the streets.

"Miss Keller's face instantly assumed an aspect of comical dolefulness and she disavowed any ability as a psychic," wrote the reporter for the Dispatch.

Laundry on 25th Anniversary "I did three loads of laundry last night," Mr. Schroeder said, with mock dolefulness.

Debussy's parallel harmonies and Scriabin's ecstatic surges had a place in his mind, and next to them, the folk tunes of his native Poland and the dolefulness of Russian opera.

Mr. Somers articulated Picasso's angular Cubism with angular phrases, his blue period with dolefulness and one gaunt dual portrait with a duet of English horn and clarinet.

But more and more intellectuals seemed prepared to take this risk and went on to talk of Chaplin's techniques, his 'dolefulness', his sense of rhythm, and his mastery of myth and fancy.

Not that nature was reinforcing the dolefulness, that old pathetic fallacy; no, the haze was man-made, for thousands of small fires were burning in England, consuming the clothes and the homes and the bodies of the stricken.

Having published the work as a song ("Flow My Tears") and as a virtuosic lute solo, Dowland revisited his hit in 1604, this time using it as the basis for seven pavans, each expressing a different quality of dolefulness.

II To go on performing and recording Harry Partch's music is all very well, but his distinctive blend of energy and dolefulness, heroic myth and autobiography, new tones and ancient ways survives best on the tapes he made himself with colleagues between 1950 and his death in 1974.