lugubriousness

The cast members, too, occasionally shake off the lugubriousness that surrounds them.

But it is not this memoir's lugubriousness that alone proves fatal.

Musically, the opera's effect was often of an amiable lugubriousness.

In contrast to her lugubriousness, 1 would be buoyant.

"Yes," answered the younger man with the proper lugubriousness of youth, "but it all comes to an end."

Frisson's face was so heavy with lugubriousness that he looked like a bloodhound.

Besides, there is a slight lugubriousness in Mr. Nunn's direction.

Under the wide brim of his tall black hat the lugubriousness of his features was given the lie by mischievous blue eyes.

Milton's lugubriousness didn't alter.

Regarding her poem "Unattained", Bierce complained of "this dainty writer's tiresome lugubriousness."

That is surely part of the reason that "Studies in Tectonic Culture," for all its occasional lugubriousness, is so appealing.

"James has always reminded me of Abraham Lincoln because of his height and his lugubriousness," says his friend Sting.

Stepan Rak's "Hommage to Tarrega" similarly fell flat for want of Iberian lugubriousness.

Its deep tone lends itself to lugubriousness and heroics, shadowy brooding or rhapsodic light, all crucial elements of the 19th- and 20th-century Russian compositional palette.

'Freeze' is a slab of sensual lugubriousness while 'Things He Told Her'captures some of the pop spirit of old.

They expanded upon Cubism, rebuked the prevailing lugubriousness of postwar sculpture and predicted many aspects of Pop and Minimalism.

Lemaitre's frown cleared, but his expression took on the lugubriousness of a Basset hound as he waited the few seconds before Gideon came on the line.

The Sunday program also included Martinu's Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, a passionate work that narrowly avoids lugubriousness.

And Helena Carroll feasts deliciously on the lugubriousness of an Irish character actress who, as May recalls with barbed insight, "never played a scene the same way twice."

Compared to the earlier readings, this version of "All Things Must Pass" has "a stateliness that avoids lugubriousness", in the words of Allmusic's Richie Unterberger.

And although the quality of Turow's output has varied, faltering at times when he seemed to mistake lugubriousness for literary seriousness, there's never been any doubt what kind of sturgeon he is.

Daniel Müller-Schott's cello playing matches those extremes and adds an engaging lugubriousness when Mendelssohn seems to invite it, as in the opening bars of the D minor Trio.

Her phrasing breathes naturally, and when these works demand a tone that sings, she supplies it in spades without veering into the lugubriousness that can be a pitfall in both scores.

Gleefully intending to establish that the Second Amendment refers only to the right of state militias to have guns, the professors invariably conclude, with great lugubriousness, that the gun nuts are right.