| 单词 | sullen |
| 例句 | They hid their hatred behind sullen looks and faces blank as slate, yet he could feel it all the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir,” came the reply, sullen for once. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites would have found it difficult to recognize this rather sullen and unsatisfactory child, with the ugly face, who did not disclose to anybody that he was living on dreams and prayers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Through my tented fingers, the white flare of arc lamps dulled into a sullen crimson glow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But no letter like that ever came, and Grandpa was so sullen most of the time that I stopped dreaming of him and his hopes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I rang again and a maid with a sullen face opened the door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z On its further side the woods gathered again, blue and grey under the sullen evening, and marched on southwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All that listened there thought this a folly or a crazy courage in their young wizard, and with sullen faces they saw him go, expecting no news of him again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Will felt a great sullen heaviness settle over him; he’d had little strength left before the fight with his father, and now he was nearly finished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I imagine myself as he must see me, a sullen girl sitting in judgment of him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was drunk; I could see it in the way he was sitting, not in an inebriated manner per se but as if a different person—a sluggish, sullen one—had occupied his body. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Now that they’d found Lyra, the angel had begun to withdraw back into his grief: he was silent, distracted, and sullen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z If I stood on the terrace and listened I could hear the murmur of the sea below me, low and sullen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The white people who came with Christmas bags of rock candy and old clothes were hard put to get a Yes'm, thank you, out of those sullen mouths. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He had said that the Days never even talked about the details among themselves, so Milkman was sure any inquiry from him would only make Guitar sullen again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He often disappeared for a day or two, arriving at home sullen and exhausted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They had friendly faces or unfriendly, helpful or sullen, open or secretive, brutish or sensitive. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z My father accompanied me, as a guide and companion, but he was a sullen and brooding presence, lost in a private anguish that I could sense only dimly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The sky rumbled, and there was an oppressive weight to the air, a sullen, foreboding pressure, as if it were waiting for something. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Yet he seemed to be looking at it, or as near as Shreve could tell, he was, his face lowered a little, brooding, almost sullen. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Dusk was approaching, early because of the sullen lowering clouds; when I took up the sack, not full today, the stones rattled loosely inside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The last few trips had seen some ugliness at Mole’s Town, a little pushing and shoving, some muttered curses, a lot of sullen looks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He told Colin this sometimes, when Colin would come home from school sullen, tired of the Abdominal Snowman, tired of pretending that his abject friendlessness didn't bother him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There was a recess and in the afternoon five doctors said that they thought Bigger was “sane, but sullen and contrary.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was better they wait for the war to end, rather than have their wedding in this house with its sullen rooms and moldy kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The sullen look on his face gave no hint that he was listening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They shared a sullen New Year’s supper in a cafeteria at his father’s work site, eating cornmeal and cabbage soup. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I’d expected her to be sullen and suspicious, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was already day, a windless and sullen morning, and the marsh-reeks lay in heavy banks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then he would lapse into a sullen silence that lasted until his next bout of shouting. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A knot of sullen football boys trudged past us, giving us dirty looks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Day after stifling day, the coaches and crews sat in small, almost sullen groups, playing cards, reading pulp magazines, shooting the bull, choosing whom they went to the dining car with and whom they didn’t. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their daughter, Pearl, became commensurately more difficult to manage, her behavior marked by periods of sullen withdrawal and eruptions of anger. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was not pretty; she looked simultaneously cross and sullen, with heavy brows and a long, pallid face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Kainene had always been the withdrawn child, the sullen and often acerbic teenager, the one who, because she did not try to please their parents, left Olanna with that duty. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Fires blazed in the twin hearths at either end of the bedchamber, filling the room with a sullen red glare. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The gray, sullen hue that had hung over everything was replaced by a light that seemed brilliant by comparison to what had gone before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her lips move the whole time as if she were doing her usual sullen, under-her-breath grumbling, but Yoyo knows she is casting a spell that will leave the men powerless, becalmed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She slipped back into her place without a word, and sat there sullen and scowling, neither smiling nor speaking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Pervert was off by himself in a corner, sullen and dejected. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Smokes and steams drifted in sullen clouds and lurked in the hollows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The Clock Watchers sitting on stools, at tables, and in booths were sullen, hunched over bowls of ice cream. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The killings stopped after Fallen's death, but even so his men continued sullen and anxious. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After three days of sullen looks and stubborn silence, everything was back to normal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They stared at me with sullen, mean eyes, like I was a strange animal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Flattering me into tormenting them because he, in his sullen hole, loved viciousness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re still a little sullen,” the girl said, “but I will forgive you that if you will save me from my uncle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By now, sullen confusion weighed upon the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were boys about their age, and they looked sullen and scared. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Through bleary eyes, I took in the sight of the tahara room’s tile floor and the oil lamps casting their sullen glow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I remember it tasting the way I felt, sweet and bitter and sullen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The religious school opened and I put in a sullen attendance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered blood and the smell of burning hair and felt a deep, sullen anger burning in my chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then to the sullen and despairing North there came heartening news, the first of which was in a dispatch from Mobile, Alabama. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In a sullen way Bigger was conscious of this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Joe returned to the store full of pleasure and good humor but he didn’t want Janie to notice it because he saw that she was sullen and he resented that. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z His hair was of sullen brown, and he wore on it a crown of mesarthium shaped as a wreath of serpents swallowing each other by the tails. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Hour after hour, they trudged by, their heads down, their expressions sullen. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His rounded helm gleamed a sullen red, and a pale pink cloak streamed from his shoulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The girl had a sullen look on her face, and she seemed to be the only person not interested in what was going on at the slave sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was better than her usual sullen silence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When she wasn’t agitated, the girl was a sullen pair of eyes staring from under the blanket, breathing out short little answers to Mariam and Rasheed’s questions. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “She asked if I knew where Virgil was,” Kaori said, sounding just as sullen as she felt. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He was not crying any more, but he seemed to be brooding on something shameful and sullen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland always spoke so carefully that each syllable seemed to be filtered through his sullen, heavy lips. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z So we simply stood and watched in sullen silence while this disgusting old woman stirred around inside the jars with her foul fingers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia is sullen and envious and barely speaks to her sister. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Jorah Mormont accepted his collar in a sullen silence, but Penny began to cry as the armorer was fastening her own into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He closed it and opened another: the smoke-laden air over an industrial city, with a line of chained and sullen workers trudging into a factory. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He would take a fancy to a person for no reason, and be friendly one day perhaps and sullen the next. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And sure enough, I turned around and a sullen woman was now squatting in front of the bucket of fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the windows closed and the shutters fastened I could hear it; a low sullen murmur as the waves broke on the white shingle in the cove. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I thought about some of the kids I’d seen in the Hermes cabin, teenagers who looked sullen and depressed, as if they were waiting for a call that would never come. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The man folded his arms and looked rather sullen, the woman stared at Victor's walrus mustache. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It's also a tradition of high pageantry, in which lawmakers dramatically express their approval or disapproval of the president’s ideas by either leaping to their feet in repeat standing ovations or remaining seated and sullen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Finally he headed back to camp and worked the rest of the day in a sullen mood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was sullen and lonely and just generally angry at the world. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sullen rivalries that had arisen during the fall season now turned into outright battles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Next Matt explored the edge of the garden, where the bodyguards formed a sullen, dark perimeter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Blackie was still hostile, sullen, mean, but when White asked him about Hale and Burkhart’s role in the murders of the Osage, his mood seemed to change. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Its sides were now dark and sullen, and its head was in grey cloud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Curly scowled at the sullen lump in the backseat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the three sat with his head down in sullen disgust. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I looked around at the campers’ faces, some sullen and suspicious, some grinning stupidly, some eyeing me as if they were waiting for a chance to pick my pockets. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We sat and drank it, and the girl looked sullen. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The flames had died in the early morning, leaving a deep bed of sullen coals that glimmered when the wind brushed them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Good morning,” Arthur said sulkily, and sat down himself with an air of sullen ill temper. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The vast vapours that arose in Mordor and went streaming westward passed low overhead, a great welter of cloud and smoke now lit again beneath with a sullen glow of red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I walked home limp as a rag; I had not felt anything except sullen anger and a crushing sense of shame. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The stair was dark, but on the roof-top the glare of the Mountain could still be seen, though it was dying down now to a sullen red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His returns, whether by force or circumstance, were sullen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lannisters moved through a sea of ragged men and hungry women, breasting a tide of sullen eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He thought of the sullen summer afternoons and the black, hot nights, of all the fights he had broken up and the quarrels he had hushed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My father seldom set foot in Grandma-over-in-town’s house, and when he did he was sullen and stared at the door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I spent the day thinking sullen thoughts, trying to ignore the sound of his voice and occasionally remembering the way Denna had looked last night with the moon reflecting off the water behind her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then the first Saturday of October came, and we were herded together for our communal birthday, in a peculiar mood both celebratory and sullen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I kept my head down to avoid making eye contact with the stream of sullen university students filing past me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She noticed him at once because he was so sullen and only barely polite. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The sullen, rebellious people standing about watching Percy and his staff approaching, waiting for the brigade to march, all were Englishmen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Was this the same Bobby Fischer who supposedly knew only chess, the sullen high school dropout from Brooklyn? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He clasped his knees very tightly with his arms, and his young face was sullen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Reynie looked at Constance, whose face was even more sullen than usual, and fearful as well. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Catelyn Stark's plea had roused a bare dozen; the others looked confused, or frightened, or sullen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z If only I was his size, I could get away with sullen and hostile and it would be just fine! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The chickens were fidgety, the cows were skittish, and the pigs were sullen and glum. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A slight wind picked up and made the trees that grew in sullen clusters along the ridge sway menacingly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a sullen silence she began preparing the meal, lighting the fire, fetching the water, boiling the rice, the baby astride her hip as before and whimpering unheeded. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bench across from her, Amaya was staring out into the city around them, a sullen frown painted across her face, brow furrowed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Marion—red-eyed, her hair in hot curlers—was sullen and silent, too. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I am sorry, my lord,” I said in a dull and sullen tone. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Here Strider turned aside, and soon they were lost in a sombre country of dark trees winding among the feet of sullen hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Harrison was sullen and bashful, wanting to trust me, but afraid. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The dogged regiment withdrew before them, sullen, dispirited, the fight knocked out of it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The man gave her a quick, sullen glance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Dicey swiveled her head around to meet those dark hazel eyes, the sullen, angry eyes she had seen in the photograph Aunt Cilla kept. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time the Indian fighting had become like dangerous cattle drives—the tribes were forced into revolt, driven and decimated, and the sad, sullen remnants settled on starvation lands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the windless dusk, sullen heaps of smoke pump upward through the trees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Agent Burger then confronted Joe, who, in the agent’s words, was “very self-contained, sullen and wicked appearing.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Others in the Oneida commune regarded him as moody, swinging from spirited to sullen within minutes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When called upon to play the bear and carry off the maiden fair, he had been sullen and uncooperative, shuffling lifelessly through his paces when he deigned to take part in their mummery at all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was sullen with helpless fury at all the bad luck that had befallen them lately. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The women and children of Ogo's khalasai walked with a sullen pride, even in defeat and bondage; they were slaves now, but they seemed not to fear it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Most of the patients showed a sullen, slightly aggressive, or negativistic behavior,” according to the book. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Miserable, sullen men, black and white under guard had to keep on searching for bodies and digging graves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In his new personage he was always cold, sullen, distant, contemplative; always wrinkling his brow and scratching his balding head and wringing his hands and muttering curses and complaints, especially on Fridays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled up his hood and hunched over his garron, silent and sullen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Ice Court loomed over the harbor, perched on the cliff like a sullen gull with feathers ruffled, its white stone walls lit from below, glowing against the night sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He finished the day in a silence as sullen as that of the other apprentice, Nebre, whose stony indifference to men and work alike he was beginning to understand very well indeed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Relaxation,” the doctor said vaguely, and Theodora turned with a sullen shrug and stared again into the fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z That the armorer's sullen apprentice was the king's son, Ned had no doubt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were only a few vendors, and all were engaged in harried negotiations with rebels, lean and sullen and above all bored, jostling and shoving and bilking as a way to pass the time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Tom and Eb were sullen and resentful for days that their prophesies of an easy victory should so early have taken on a hollow ring. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Often I tried to talk to him, tried in simple words to convey to him some of my ideas, and he would listen in sullen silence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lawrence missed Emeline and the way her effervescence and physical brightness—her prettiness and sunflower hair—lit the sullen halls of Holmes’s building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The old man’s flat face and dark eyes showed nothing, but his voice was sullen with displeasure. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Amaya always looked kind of sullen, and she didn’t talk to too many people, but now there was something else: She looked alert. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Rowan and her scheming sisters did not want to attract notice, but their sullen silence soon had the guards giving them queer looks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No one in the sullen, cowering crowd seemed to care enough about the stunned and beaten boy to interfere. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The metal propeller blades dripped water into the bay, like sullen raindrops. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked sullen, perhaps, for she shrugged her shoulders and wandered to the looking-glass, straightening her little mushroom hat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I was sullen and dependent on my mother's sole attention, tender-hearted, and whiney: the classic temperament of the artist but without anything to show for my bad character. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He gave a sullen shrug and began to pull his arrows from the ground, one by one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Beneath the gaudy gaiety of the show, the bright lights, and the lazy laughter, he felt something sullen and dangerous. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Salvador’s face was sullen as he took the food. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She was as crotchety and sullen as a three-legged mule, and I was not quite sure why. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z When Sefia had brought it up with Nin, her aunt had gone sullen and silent, refusing to answer any questions or even make casual conversation for a whole day. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A tall gantry crane against the sullen sky. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Three of the castle-servants barred their way, sullen and questioning, as if they had been suspecting some plot of these two against their master. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z With many bitter sidelong looks and some sullen muttering, the class opened their books. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had, on her sharply defined small face, an expression of sullen distaste. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The great smokes had risen and grown thinner, and the last hours of a sombre day were passing; the red glare of Mordor had died away in sullen gloom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But it seemed that O-lan, when she saw Cuckoo, grew angry with a deep and sullen anger that Wang Lung had never seen and did not know was in her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She looked up at me with a face that could not look more sullen without actually being punched. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I turned down the next block, whizzing past the cookie-cutter houses painted in one of three shades: bitter brown, sour cream, or sullen yellow. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And Ella Mae was not so beautiful now as she was when she was singing and testifying, but looked like a sullen, ordinary girl. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She wore a white sequined dress, and had a sullen face and lean, mannish legs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Richardson peered closely at a photo of a sullen young girl in a cowgirl outfit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Argaven stood there sullen as an old she-otter in a cage, swinging back and forth, from foot to foot, back and forth, baring his teeth in a grin of pain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I see Mabel turning into a sullen girl, all too aware of the ways she has been burdened, ill-treated, abandoned to this sorry lot. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z ‘Well—’ The boy’s voice was timid and sullen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But a sullen mood hung over the ship, like an evil mist over a swamp. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z So bright was his glory that he did not notice the sullen pain in his brother, did not see the glinting in his brother’s eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung stood sullen and immoveable, conscious of his fault but angry to the bottom of his heart against this man who was his uncle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The mountains swung a half-circle around a lake black and sullen below threatening clouds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He did not dare look at Burdow, but he remembered the sullen, piglike eyes that had stared at him in the store that morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the sea from where I stood, sullen and slow, as it broke in the coves below the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z This action on my part led to a rather loud and defiantly boorish roar of protest from the collective workers, who began to regard me with sullen eves. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The flames had dimmed, and in most places had subsided to sullen coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even farther below, the streetlights marked off sullen pathways that squared back into themselves. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The princeling was in a sullen mood, angry that he had been forced to remain on the Shy Maid instead of going ashore with Yandry and Ysilla. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She remembered Nan telling how the stone had melted and flowed like candlewax down the steps and in the windows, glowing a sullen searing red as it sought out Harren where he hid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She looked upon our detachment with sullen terror as we marched by. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By this time the truck was little more than four wheels and an engine and the engine was so crotchety and sullen and senile that it required expert care and consideration. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The skies grew sullen and the air chillier, but it wasn’t until the third day that the snow came. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She wanted him to cry and cry until he dislodged the pain that clogged his throat, until he rinsed away his sullen grief. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And the owners of them, sullen faced, unrepentant, pushed by the Eyes against the walls of their bedrooms, while the sorrowful voice of the announcer tells us voice-over about their perfidy and ungratefulness. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, sullen white counterdemonstrators took up positions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Under it all some part of his mind was beginning to stand aside; he was going behind his curtain, his wall, looking out with sullen stares of contempt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Pearl’s sullen, accusing presence had become especially unappealing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His grey shirt hung in loose tatters except where it was stuck to his body, stained a dark, sullen red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It's a sullen, vindictive cold outside, colder than it's been in months, and my breath vaporizes as we hurry along the canal. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Jacques-Paul sulked about the house, sullen and cramped, till even his shadow grew small. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He scowled, his heavy black brows coming together over his sullen eyes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z How could anyone remember so much? her mother asked her sullen father. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Dussel looked very sullen, didn't speak to me for two days and made sure he occupied the table from five to five-thirty—all very childish, of course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The boy’s sullen face was full of heart and he could not thrust it from his thoughts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He recites and makes us remember, They went forth to battle, but they always fell, Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She was sullen and mean and had trouble keeping her letters correct. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He knew Lem Harvey—a huge fellow with hulking shoulders and a sullen, swarthy face. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At times the zebra made noises about the predator just behind it, but mostly it lay in hopeless and sullen silence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth was sullen and sad, her lined lips compressed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Charles, in the office, was sullen and uncommunicative. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Everyone recited the Five Principles of Good Citizenship and the Four Attitudes Leading to Right-Mindfulness, and then a sullen, acne-scarred boy began dishing up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she is cynical, sullen, and a deeper mystery every day. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He led the girl away aft, while her father watched them go in sullen silence. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He became sullen, resentful, angry, and his memory seemed to be blown away. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What does she recall feeling during those difficult, sullen years of my childhood? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It says they can hear us...and when I try to press it, it becomes...well, it becomes sullen. And it’s not supposed to—Whoever heard of a sullen robot?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Under the hill, Jojen Reed grew ever more sullen and solitary, to his sister’s distress. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z None of the kilns had been fired up yet, and most of the forge fires were still banked and sullen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My mother picked through the bone pile, sullen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Night was gathering over the shapeless lands before them; the sickly green of them was fading to a sullen brown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And it was his sullen stare and the violent action that followed that made Gus and Jack and G.H. hate and fear him as much as he hated and feared himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The sullen shrivelled leaves of a past year hung on them, grating and rattling in the sad airs, but their maggot-ridden buds were only just opening. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She stood there sullen, her head turned from me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Bunny came down late the next morning, puff-eyed and sullen, while Francis and the twins and I were eating our breakfasts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He straightened himself unconsciously, preparing to be either sullen or arrogant. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably seemed quite sullen—not surprised, really, but Penn was so frank it felt like being hit in the face. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z His savoring, tight- lipped smile and her unsmiling, sullen face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She makes a big deal of asking them what they want, of getting them to recite for the company, and trying to get sullen little Fifi to smile for the obnoxious fat man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Lalo was sullen when anyone asked, and he said it was his wife who had rented her the rooms above the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The sullen daze when he has to carry my coat with Elizabeth’s, fetch me a drink too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Some were shy and some were bold, some sweet and some sullen, but all were innocent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Whereas when you open your mouth, you come across more as sullen and hostile." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At unguarded moments his hard and sullen face slipped into a somber, preoccupied look of defeat and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never bad, you must not do this, don’t you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The nights are clear, but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know why my voice was all sullen. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Food and fire and rest had helped restore him after the ordeals of their journey, but he seemed sadder now, sullen, with a weary, haunted look about the eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The voices and the laughter and the music breathe life into the sullen walls. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Neither sky nor sunset was reflected on its sullen surface. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And thus we secured a stylish but rather sullen passage to Gatlinburg. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the edge of the fields the sullen haze hung over earth and sky alike. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Salvador’s face had taken on a dark, sullen look, and his eyes flicked constantly to the door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z After we told her that she couldn’t see Mayor anymore, Maribel grew moody and sullen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And the dull, sullen sound of the boatmen’s bamboo poles as they thudded against the dark, oiled boatwood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the times when she became extremely cheerful for days on end - and for no observable reason - were almost as disturbing to me as her sudden, often prolonged sullen spells. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Even the sullen males were not that different from Uncle Kufa and his friends at the dare. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert was slumped in Darry's high seat at the far end of the room, his face closed and sullen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was a year or two older than Ranofer, and a full head taller, with a stolid, sullen face. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When she faced her mother she was shy, downcast, sullen. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There were no street vendors here, nor prosperous merchants, only sullen wives emptying their slop jars into the street, sometimes missing the scrawny, shoeless children playing there, sometimes not. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He imagines her in a bed in the corner, sullen, emaciated, a cloud of smoke over her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For this reason, when visitors tried to make advances to John he was sullen, and they, feeling that for some reason he disliked them, retaliated by deciding that he was a “funny” child. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Is there anything you want to know?” he asks Allen, who has been sullen throughout the interview. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z But he was sullen, and so were the rest of us when we received our instructions about the party. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of swaggering heroically through the halls in their green and white letter jackets, Jim and the football boys trudged to class sullen and trigger-sensitive to insult. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The three of us sat downstairs at the kitchen table, spent and sullen now, our misery provoked all over again by the sight of the fourth empty chair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He saw Lem’s jaws stiffen, his face grow sullen. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The sullen wet heat of Volantis sapped his strength and left him feeling dirty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was black beyond the doors, a sullen stygian darkness that seemed alive and threatening, hungry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So the weekends, destined to disappoint, are strident, sullen, sprinkled with bruises and dots of blood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at the world with a strange, sullen, fixed-from- under stare, as though defying all efforts of compassion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the teachers who had left in protest or by being required to take leave had come back, sullen or chastened; others had vanished and been replaced. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There were no sullen students lined up on benches with slates in their hands. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The sullen innkeeper told me that he couldn’t possibly dream of charging me, seeing as how the entire town was in my debt and all that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The walls rang with the sound of hammers, and burly men in leather aprons stood sweating in the sullen heat as they bent over bel-lows and anvils. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His face was sullen when he talked about it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The laughing stopped, and from that moment on she did a perfect imitation of a sullen, pout-lipped teenager. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The open sky beyond where in the distance the sullen sea lagged and shifted. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Your child suddenly becomes sullen and withdrawn, and/or loses interest in activities they previously enjoyed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He didn’t bring the water-jug till Uncle Henry shouted at him three or four times, and then he was sullen. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl was happy to do her part, no longer sullen, and far kinder than she had been before the ordeal. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Strong, who exudes a sullen poisonousness when his character is in attack mode, strips away the harsh exterior to expose the sad truth about Lucas. | 'The Hallway Trilogy': Love Thy Neighbor? Yeah, Right 2011-02-25T03:00:00Z “Kubrick’s sullen camera,” Crowther added, “bores directly into the minds of scheming men and into the hearts of patient, frightened soldiers who have to accept orders to die.” What’s on TV This Week: Documentaries on Kevin Garnett and Jake Burton Carpenter 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z He would become sullen and argumentative with large groups. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When Dad’s insight is the greatest gift of all 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z On the very first page of the book, for instance, she describes “the sun setting into a sullen murk of ashes and embers.” Books of The Times: ?The Artist of Disappearance? ? By Anita Desai ? Review 2012-01-10T22:04:26Z If Walter is the film’s official mouthpiece, Ms. Stewart’s sullen character, Sophie, one of his students, is its despairing op-ed voice. Review: ‘Anesthesia’ Ponders the Meaningfulness of Life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The sullen Lizzie has expansive soliloquies in which she reflects on her thwarted life, beholden to a stern father who has never forgiven her for being born female. Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher, Dies at 88 2010-06-09T04:58:00Z There's nothing like a good women's prison drama – all sullen lags, lingering looks and terrified fresh meat. Women's TV prison dramas: 10 vital ingredients 2013-07-10T12:04:00Z Above all, there is Christopher Maltman's wonderfully judged Gamekeeper, clearly mapping his transformation from sullen introspection to a touching awareness of the constantly renewing beauties in the forest around him. The Cunning Little Vixen | Opera review 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z "Reunion" was always a dichotomy -- with its jolly, carefree music played over such sullen lyrics as "I can't for the life of me remember a sadder day" and "this strange and mournful day." Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z A sullen portrait in gray-black, she is also the latest pop phenomenon driving a resurgence of leather and spikes, shredded jeans and scruffy combat boots. Lisbeth Salander: Bringing Back Leather and Spikes 2012-02-01T21:36:05Z A little sullen and shy, Hopkins was a contest-winning classical pianist who also adored the ineffable mystery of electronic pop production, huddling near the stereo to wonder how exactly Depeche Mode or Abba worked. Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey to a New Way of Creating Music 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Her third solo show in New York evinces a somewhat sullen, don’t-rush-me determination and enough growth to indicate that she will get there sooner or later. Art in Review: KAREN HEAGLE: ?Let Nature Take Its Course and Hope It Passes? 2011-10-27T21:32:54Z Christopher Smith’s photographs are technically self-portraits, though each evokes someone else: a sullen detective, a naked gladiator, a flapper, an inmate, a sword swallower, a cowboy, a choirboy, a corpse. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z She turns sullen and almost catatonic, refusing to prepare for her Katie Couric interview, and then blames staff members when that ends in disaster. | ?Game Change?: In ?Game Change? on HBO, Julianne Moore Plays Sarah Palin 2012-03-08T13:00:00Z During “Ooh La La,” the first song, Mr. Jones scooted over to Ms. Linsey’s microphone to coo a bit, while she looked sullen, a pose she maintained for much of the night. Music Review: Songs Say One Thing, Actions Another 2011-01-11T22:20:25Z Zach, whom Haas imbues with a blank, sullen self-importance, stumbles through the movie wearing the glazed expression of a hopeless drunk. 'Crazy Eyes': a cautionary tale that doesn't bode well 2012-07-19T20:05:14Z They soon wearied of the sullen, silent child and sent us back to Grandmother Henderson in Arkansas, where we lived quietly and smoothly within my grandmother's care and under my uncle's watchful eye. All about my mother 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z In the captain’s chair is a sullen man called Pike, played by star Jeff Hunter. A legendary show’s turbulent beginnings: How ‘Star Trek’ almost failed to launch 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Just as Muse couldn’t exist without Queen, its opening act, Silversun Pickups, owes a lot to ’90s grunge and to Smashing Pumpkins in particular, as its songs climb from the sullen to the monumental. Music Review | Muse: Slaying the Dragon Called Subtlety With Large-Scale Heroics 2010-03-08T06:39:00Z Pitt, who plays Jimmy Darmody on Boardwalk Empire, is a problem: his sullen, sluggish demeanor doesn’t jibe with Ian’s questing intellect and openness to revelation. REVIEW: I Origins: The Eyes Have It 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Young Carl has his eye on the sullen preteen girl skulking around town. 'The Walking Dead' recap: A place too good to be true? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet, because he was Irish and Catholic, O’Hara felt himself to be an outsider, and all his life, even after he had become wealthy and famous, he retained an outsider’s neediness and sullen defensiveness. The Eavesdropper’s Secret: On John O’Hara 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The majority of the series takes place in the mid-1840s, and appropriate to the period, many significant interactions take place inside the grandest rooms of opulent estates, or before sullen fireplaces in humbler abodes. "Belgravia": Where "Downton Abbey" meets Dickens, except with a more dashing, less hungry orphan 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z On the far opposite coast, however, a spirit of hope and anticipation rapidly faded into sullen disappointment as dejected 49ers fans tried to absorb their team’s loss. Fans mob Baltimore streets to celebrate Ravens win 2013-02-04T12:20:00Z She seemed less sullen now; as we lamented not having time to eat dessert, she even ventured a joke of her own. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Much of it revolves around the kind of casual homophobic baiting that boys of all ages aimlessly lob back and forth like a softball in a sullen game of catch. | 'True Adolescents': Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood 2011-07-28T22:03:05Z Gooding, who typically plays an entirely different and louder sort of “big,” has to tamp down his usual energy in order to play a sullen and egocentric man known to friends as “Juice.” FX’s ‘People v. O.J. Simpson’ is near-perfect and arrives at the perfect time 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z For its part, the American public is in the grip of a sullen, almost paranoid, narcissism about science and experts. Don’t go with your gut: How does the public’s view of science go so wrong? 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z No matter how strange a shape-shifting sludge spirit might appear to audiences, they can still relate to the spunky, and sometimes sullen, Chihiro. Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" continues to delight fans 20 years after its U.S. premiere 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z In an attempt to bond with her awkward, sullen teen daughter, my mother invited me to pick out a movie rental after we finished our grocery shopping. We need to talk about “13 Reasons Why”: The timeless case for getting into uncomfortable conversations about teen crises as seen on TV…and in movies 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Refusing to find so much as a hint of consolation in the work, his brutal interpretation, less overtly Mahlerian than most, swivelled between unspeakable violence and sullen despair. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-02-10T18:40:19Z In Harrison’s words, “she was born mean, captious, sullen, with occasional small dirty windows of charm.” Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z But most importantly, the two have fantastic chemistry and by the end of the second episode Riggs’ sullen tics are a bit less ludicrous. Lethal Weapon remake: loud, ludicrous and lovable 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He goes to work on a farm, organizes a meal for a camp full of children, and interns at a restaurant full of entertainingly sullen Russian line cooks. To Nosh or Not to Nosh: An Immigrant’s Dilemma 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z This bid for black kinship among whites brings a sullen look to the woman’s face. Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The part went to a younger actress, a sullen but cute tomboy named Kristen Stewart. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z His brisk knot of lines suggests not just the glint of Velux windows and the glum intransigence of those waiting bins, but the low, sullen lighting of our recent so-called "summers". Signs of the times 2010-04-16T23:05:00Z “Camp X-Ray” is the first film to prove that Stewart can really act, and it makes excellent use of her sullen, enigmatic screen presence. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Acting shines through darkness of Gitmo tale 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Guilted into taking temporary custody of this sullen urchin and unwilling to delay his trip, Noah decides to take the boy along to France. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z In her daughter's absence she is raising her grandson, a sullen, barely communicative teenager typical in some respects but grimly exceptional in others. In theaters now: Movie reviews 2011-02-24T20:41:02Z Were Williamson to rile up the crowd of young punks and sullen middle-aged men to march out of the venue and storm the Bastille, there’s no doubt they’d comply. Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z One day she notices a sullen young man scrutinising her in Portobello market. The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland – review 2013-03-01T17:00:01Z Yet the film’s striking images — a girl’s made-up face, sullen amid a crowd of colorful revelers; solar panels gleaming sinisterly below a full moon — leave an indelible trail. ‘Alcarràs’ Review: Labor of Love 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z I think he often looks sullen and uncooperative when that’s not what he is actually feeling. Teaching a teen how his sullen looks can be mistaken for a bad attitude 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z In the documentary, Fox recalled that he grew increasingly "sullen and angry." “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”: 6 major revelations from Michael J. Fox’s new documentary 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z From its stolidly sluggish beat to its taciturn vocals and tight-lipped guitar leads, it’s sullen understatement all the way through. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z She’s single, pregnant, sullen and depressed — and, of course, an artist. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Far from being at the heart of a new Asia, sullen and misruled Central Asia languishes, for now, on the periphery. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Not an easy feat with this sullen and hesitant group. "American Idol" recap: Glambert to the rescue 2010-04-14T12:15:00Z The sullen teenager lights up, the 8-year-old stops whining, and your spouse is no longer a parent, but a fellow skier. Why We Do It: The Family Ski Trip: Why Do We Do It? 2011-12-09T19:25:17Z She was the only one during this entire episode taking practical initiative while the others were sullen and just kinda useless/reckless/culty. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Potential had followed my father through the halls of Central like a sullen weather system, but at Germantown he was made to feel that he had mental abilities near clairvoyance. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Cyrus is doing a little of both when we first meet her character, Ronnie, a sullen teenager seething at the idea of spending the summer at her father's beachfront Georgia home. 'The Last Song' plays a familiar, maudlin tune 2010-03-31T16:02:00Z And while one of the twin boys, Alex, is a thriving athlete, his brother, Max, is sullen and reclusive, and obviously in need of something Mary Beth struggles to find: a drum set? a therapist? Anna Quindlen's 'Every Last One': A novel of suburbia's darker side 2010-04-14T21:28:00Z In the background, against cool blue lights and virtually no set, we see in dimness the sullen Boris seated on his throne, surrounded by crouching subjects staring nervously and silently at their volatile leader. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z Off to the side, though, is a group of sullen men whose dark clothing contrasts with the earth tones of the locals. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z She finds her attempts to reconnect subtly rebuffed: A gift of video games is greeted with a sullen shrug. Review: ‘Kill Floor,’ a Drama About the Beef Dividing a Mother and Son 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z "Animal Kingdom" writer-director David Michod returns with the very different "The Rover," starring Guy Pearce as a sullen loner who seeks revenge on a group of bandits in a bleak, futuristic Australia. 'Neighbors' having good, not-so-clean fun 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The songs are still sullen, smart and cleverly constructed. New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z An NME blog also ruminated on the reasons Young Fathers deserved to win - championing the band's "sullen" and "genuinely nonchalant" attitude on the red carpet and the winner's podium. Were Young Fathers the right winner? 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z A pair of highly stylized, deeply mordant coming-of-age tales about adolescent male psychopaths and the sullen girls who enable them. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Only Jay O. Sanders’s staunchly loyal Earl of Kent and Steven Boyer, as Lear’s Fool, portrayed as a scared and sullen adolescent, suggest a genuine relationship with the demented king they serve. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z For the sullen young man at the center of “Student,” directed by the Kazakh filmmaker Darezhan Omirbayev, an experimental act of violence seems to yield moral clarity. Movie Review: ‘Student,’ Directed by Darezhan Omirbayev 2013-05-30T22:51:36Z I wanted to crane my neck at its limestone walls and fool its sullen brown trout with a fly rod. Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z An almost palpable aura of fatalism hangs over Costi and, especially, the sullen, volatile Adrian, whose promises and equivocations are like bounced verbal checks. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z One sunny, one sullen – it is the contrast that makes this pair so fascinating. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: 'I brighten Mark up and he gives me weight' 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z It’s a tough adjustment for Daniel, who has become guarded and sullen, and his housemates as they navigate life outside of incarceration. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Rectify’ and ‘Lip Sync Battle’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The colors, however, are more subdued than usual — less flashy, more smudgy and increasingly mixed with bruised purples, murky golds, hazy blacks and sullen browns. Salomon Huerta's paintings push beyond the comfort zone 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Miley Cyrus at the premiere for The Last Song, where she played a sullen and rebellious teen Photograph: BDG / Rex Features For some it is a new low. Miley Cyrus seen with bong in home-made video 2010-12-11T00:18:00Z Chalk, who was on Broadway in "Fences," shows every side of the condemned inmate spectacularly - in turns loving, sullen, crazed, menacing and charming. A play about death row wrestles with meaning 2011-02-11T00:30:32Z “The Sculptor” presents weightier concerns: David Smith is a sullen artist in his 20s and down on his luck. Scott McCloud’s New Graphic Novel Is ‘The Sculptor’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z There was sullen Stella, unsmiling and standoffish, staring down her audience at a post-screening question-and-answer session and refusing to answer queries about her next career move. The Many Faces of Stella 2010-12-29T21:45:19Z River Phoenix is sometimes compared to James Dean, another sullen, lustrous blond heartthrob whose life imploded in his early 20s. River Phoenix died 25 years ago. He’s still slipping away from us. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z In a series of sullen tweets in 2014, Brown asserted that no one cared about his serious life issues — among them depression, anxiety and addiction. Danny Brown takes a tour through his catalogue at the Fillmore 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Ian returns his younger brother’s admiration with sullen silence or brutality — the first shot of the film is of a beating that leaves a nasty bruise on Stevie’s chest. Review: ‘Mid90s’ Skates Back to a Less Innocent Time 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Rousselle, a model making her film debut, has a sullen magnetism. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z When the Buzzcocks played "Top of the Pops," he stared into the camera with a sullen pout, reveling in how uncool he looked. Remembering Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley: The ultimate punk romantic 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z His Agrippina stalked the stage in a power suit; Nero was a slouching, sullen teenager; there was carousing at a stylish bar, complete with cocktail harpsichordist. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The record, whose title song is an obscure, country-inflected Bob Dylan number, has the feel of a sullen concept album by a woman who feels abandoned. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z A group of sullen German soldiers sit together. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps because they have chosen to be there, they don’t have the look of sullen resentment and cultivated boredom that glazes the faces of the high school students glimpsed now and again. | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z We got the briefest of moments with Grey Worm and Missandei, daring to imagine a future for themselves, while the sullen Hound exiled himself to the frosted parapets. This week's Game of Thrones: a booze-fest – and the most moving episode yet 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z As sung by the radiant soprano Heather Buck, Alma is an impulsive young woman who thinks the sullen Ennis may actually be her means of escaping ranch life and living properly in town. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z Militantly sullen, Barbara rails against the ugliness of the world and the spirit of autumn while her lover, the black-clad Gregory, tries to figure the meaning of existence. Jonas Mekas’s Debut Is an Artifact of Beat-Era New York 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In one memorable blurring of emotion and weather we see six dancers rolling slowly across the stage – a sullen sea of tranquillity – while the other four remain locked in the vehemence of the receding storm. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z After finishing the filming of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana, she portrayed a rebellious and sullen teen in the romantic movie The Last Song. Miley Cyrus seen with bong in home-made video 2010-12-11T00:18:00Z As a teenage cipher, Ms. Purnell is less successful; her constant fingernail biting is supposed to convey anxiety, while she remains mostly in a sullen pout. Review: ‘Wildlike’ Pits a Teenage Girl Against the Alaskan Wilderness 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z I was a sullen, high-strung, and prideful boy, awkward, even inept, and I took private refuge in songs. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He began the season as a newly divorced guy who slowly unraveled into a sullen drunk. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z A victim of the 1970s boom in overseas travel — the British swapped Margate for Mallorca — it has endured a period of sullen decay, its plight only heightened by the disheveled grandeur of its Edwardian inheritance. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Clarke’s hard-pressed Caroline is her own woman: strong and sullen, resentful of her lot yet fiercely invested in values and institutions that somehow sustain her. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s true that one can only stand so much of this sullen material. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Dorothy, who somehow escaped all manifestations of the domestic gene, spends most of her time at work and is a rather sullen partner. 'The Beginner's Goodbye': the school of hard knocks, from beginner to intermediate 2012-03-28T19:27:07Z "To be right, to be 20, to keep hope," we hear as Patti Smith wanders the decks with her guitar, like a sullen teenager. Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z Vulture has compiled an exhaustive list of his most sullen interviews from the tour – the sarcastic ‘wooo’ after a clip is shown on Fallon is a highlight – but look at the video above. Next question: rewatching the most awkward movie press tours 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Only two years older than J, this sullen, baby-faced dimwit, who does his older brothers’ bidding, sits around in a daze, his brow furrowed, his fingers covering his mouth. | 'Animal Kingdom': Gangsters, All in the Family, in Melbourne 2010-08-12T22:24:00Z She begins with the sullen Cola, a track with an already notorious opening line that the audience sings along with her, although their reading is far less aloof. Lana Del Rey – review 2013-05-17T17:30:55Z It is not long before Pierre’s attitude of sullen acquiescence bursts into flames. Review: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’ Considers Identity and Fluidity 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Written by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks specifically for the "Hannah Montana" star, the movie casts Cyrus as a sullen teen spending the summer with her estranged father. 'Titans' battles to No. 1 spot with $61.4 million 2010-04-05T00:31:00Z Signed to MGM, Lansbury followed "Gaslight" with her sullen sister turn in "National Velvet" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray," racking up two Academy Award nominations and a Golden Globe along the way. Angela Lansbury was the world’s big sister 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z They were watched by groups of sullen youths, most, but not all black, gathered at street corners. When Brixton burned 2011-04-09T23:05:03Z But Borgman, ungrateful and demanding, begins making unannounced appearances in the main house, and Marina becomes wary and increasingly concerned for the welfare of her three sullen preteenage children. ‘Borgman,’ Alex van Warmerdam’s Adult Fairy Tale 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The single mother of a sullen teenage daughter, Teresa treats herself to a birthday trip to a resort on the coast of Kenya. ‘Paradise: Love’: a raw look at sex tourism and ‘sugar mamas’ 2013-06-20T21:45:32Z Their style on a pair of recent albums suggests a bittersweet amalgam of dream pop and alternative country, with a sullen sincerity behind the twang. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z Eliza Bent is Karla Angelica, the sullen, silent one, who lurks on the sidelines with a gaze of both judgment and longing. Tina Satter’s ‘Ancient Lives’ Is at the Kitchen 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Hostile whites run the gamut from hysterical to sullen. An African in Paris, Fighting to Preserve His Dignity 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z I wanted to see what sullen 25-year-old men had to tell me beyond ‘Leave me alone during this awkward period of beard growth.” Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z Perhaps the shirt represents my lifelong pull between being the sullen teenage girl and the mature daughter. A homemade opera shirt hit the right note 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z In the days after last year’s Paris attacks, they found an outlet in Kay Burley’s ridiculous photo of a sullen golden retriever. Hail Twiddleswift! Not the super-couple we deserve, but the one we need 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Sex between two male friends, on a “soiled and sullen mattress,” ends in angry words and a broken bisque bowl. For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Zach, whom Mr. Haas imbues with a blank, sullen self-importance, stumbles through the movie wearing the glazed expression of a hopeless drunk. Movie Review: ‘Crazy Eyes,’ Directed by Adam Sherman 2012-07-05T21:53:57Z It is a perfect epigram for those sullen beauties with their obtuse and obstructive ways, hired to do front of house in upscale commercial galleries. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z Drax is a monster, perhaps the Devil himself, who “grasps on to the world like a dog biting into bone — nothing is obscure to him, nothing is separate from his fierce and sullen appetites.” Review: In ‘The North Water,’ a Journey to the Arctic Turns Cutthroat 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “No more space, hit replay/It goes on and on,” Orono sings with sullen nonchalance, then repeats “and on” another 16 times. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Also, he was so handsome and sullen, just my type. The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Teenagers are moody, secretive, sullen, sarcastic; sometimes, those are the good bits. Dear Molly: should parents be spying on their teenage daughter? 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Still exhausted and suffering from withdrawal symptoms, the sullen Cody greets Sister Jamie’s attempts to probe into his past with snickering contempt. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z Gone was his earlier art-school peacockery, and in its stead came a mood more suited for white tuxedos, silk pocket squares, fat roses and videos that had him taking sullen rides in limousines. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z If the students had been silent and sullen, now they were silent and rapt. ‘Fun Home,’ the Musical, Takes Alison Bechdel’s Life to Broadway 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Unmarried aunts get placed at the kids' table, manchildren, sullen teens. "Mrs. Maisel" and lessons from the kids' table 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z This would encourage Emmy voters to actually learn the names of the guy who plays the dad on "The Middle" and the girl who is so sullen on "Parks and Recreation." Shake up the Emmy Awards, already 2011-07-12T17:47:04Z Even drunk, desperate and quarrelsome, these sullen salts rarely raise or otherwise vary their voices. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z Jamie D. Ramsay’s cinematography casts a sullen thundercloud over exterior and interior shots alike, a child’s party balloons in one early scene appearing filled not with helium but with foreboding. ‘She Will’ Review: Payback Is a Witch 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The arguments put forward by the Pagford loyalists against what they see as the evasive sullen rabble from The Fields are laid out with conviction, as is the opposing view. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – review 2012-09-29T23:05:13Z He assumes the role of, yes, a Dr. Frankenstein to the Turners’ sullen child, shaping a new person out of human clay with what turn out to be disastrous results. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The tone of that song — mournful, dazed, sullen, traumatized, self-absorbed, defensive, remote, morbid — was pervasive in the pop of 2017. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z For Richard Nixon, the holiday season of 1960 was a sullen affair. Did John F. Kennedy and the Democrats Steal the 1960 Election? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Though she's developed an unfortunate smoking habit and a sullen teenage eye roll, Sally is, under the circumstances, surprisingly well adjusted. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z After one too many sullen car rides, Novo pushed him to start a band of his own. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio pushing its smooth sound beyond the 206 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z With his sullen good looks and easy sexual charisma, Mr. Pettie has at least half the necessary attributes for Chris Flanders. | 'The Milk Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore': Reaper Arrives? Grab a Kimono 2011-01-31T03:01:00Z USA’s intensely sullen but impressively imagined drama series “Mr. Robot,” last year’s surprise hit, returns for a second season Wednesday night and the big question remains: Is it even better if you watch it stoned? USA’s beguiling ‘Mr. Robot’ returns as appointment TV for bummed-out Bernie Bros 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z She’s both a tomboy and a sullen teen who responds to her mother’s every request by flopping on the nearest piece of furniture and whining, in two harsh syllables, “Mah-ahm!” Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z On a visit to that school, Mycroft brings along a rather sullen undergraduate from Cambridge’s Downing College. Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Rather than a sullen, mug-shot figure from an offender registry, this was a teacher described as “beloved,” one who took kids rock climbing and whom many parents adored. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary considered: It's not the sex offender next door we should fear, but the one we never see coming. 2012-01-26T20:31:05Z Debussy’s Impressionist music, full of veiled harmonies, blurry textures and emotional ambiguity, hauntingly taps the subliminal stirrings of this mysterious story of a sullen royal family in a timeless, placeless kingdom. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z By the time she landed her Bafta-nominated role as a sullen, misunderstood high schooler in American Beauty, she could evince vulnerability without the notes of unsureness that typically stick to young actors. Which big-screen actors deserve a small-screen reinvention? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Meier’s office was a sullen place filled with ambitious difficult people who didn’t think twice about stabbing each other in the back. Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z “So, my very sullen author photo was my attempt to look serious.” Going back to school with writers and the first things they wrote in 'Our Story Begins' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Its conflation of religion and money may be unsubtle, but it’s sure better than the sullen arbitrariness of “Armed Freedom Lying in a Sunbed.” Art Review: Combining People and Machines in Venice 2011-07-08T16:55:52Z Bridget’s mother tells her what to wear and parades her around family events like a sullen child while she endures having her bottom pinched. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z A museum label observes, “The mug shot-like portrait captures Hickock’s sullen, lopsided face with mesmerizing clarity, as if searching for physiognomic clues to his criminal pathology.” Review: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ Is a Rogues’ Gallery 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But Ruanne appeared to lose patience, rapidly, with the lack of feedback and initiative from the dancers, whom we saw receiving her corrections in passive, even sullen silence. The Agony and the Ecstasy: English Ballet's Black Swan? 2011-03-22T15:03:53Z The young men we meet in the first minutes of “American Idiot” are too callow and sullen and restless — too young, basically — to channel their emotions constructively. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z When she awakes, she learns from a sullen Al that Max and Greta are gone. ‘Gone in the Night’ Review: Double-Booked and Double-Crossed 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z We imagined red sullen faces sneering from the doors of mudcracked houses. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z But it is Bristol’s sister Willow, a sullen 17-year-old, with whom Tripp will frolic in a borrowed Beverly Hills mansion while Bristol toils for the charity Help the Children. The Week Ahead: June 17 — 23 2012-06-15T18:42:32Z Me: Tragically, our profession — the humor profession — is plagued by jealousies, petty, sullen jealousies of the truly famous by far less famous and successful would-be humorists. Perspective | Rob Delaney of ‘Catastrophe’ has a way with filthy words, and I’m jealous 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z His sullen responses to his father’s attempts at fatherly affection simmer with a sense of long-nursed wounds. Debate Society's ‘Jacuzzi,' With Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Some vineyards look barren and inert, the vines awaiting their fate forlornly in dull, sullen solitude. Zen and the Art of Australian Winemaking 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z And of the reporters, the director observes, “They’re angry, sullen. If they don’t get a story, they don’t get paid. They’re a pond of underfed piranhas.” Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Juicy’s the sullen outcast; he’s gay, emotionally aware, intellectual and not the embodiment of Black manhood that Rev expects him to be. They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z College was where I could finally just be, with no one whining at me about chores or grades or my sullen attitude. I was a sober college student 2012-09-23T16:01:00Z I become sullen and withdrawn when I’m not expressing my anger. How can I serve the world? 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z A hormonal firecracker who is Cain to Dominic’s Abel, Casper reacts to the news with a stunned, sullen silence. Movie Review: ‘Beneath the Harvest Sky,’ a Drama of Northern Maine 2014-05-01T22:24:39Z The middle-aged single mother of a sullen teenage daughter, Teresa treats herself to a birthday trip to a resort on the coast of Kenya. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z “Personal Shopper” stars a riveting Kristen Stewart as a sullen celebrity fashion assistant, bereft after the death of her twin brother, a medium. New York Film Festival: Determined Women and Uncertainty in the World 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z That’s easy for the Baton Rouge rapper, whose bruising flows reach into his sullen past of crime, frayed relationships and bouts of depression. Kevin Gates gives first D.C.-area performance at the Fillmore Silver Spring Later, we saw outtakes of a sullen Mr. Trump the day after the attack, shooting a cleanup video meant to deplore the violence. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Among other stories, Trump has objected to a Times article published this month that portrayed his aides as exasperated and his mood as “sullen and erratic.” No, there’s no rhyme or reason to Trump’s ban on news organizations 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Sad, confused, sullen, she gets Velázquez's sympathetic insights along with his observations of her jowly Hapsburg features. The 10 best portraits of queens 2012-06-02T23:06:01Z As a voice-over murmurs the epigraph, the camera surveys the murky skyline of Nanjing, the Chinese city through which its restless young characters drift in a state of sullen heat. | 'Spring Fever': From Lou Ye, a Taboo Film on Gay Romance 2010-08-05T23:38:00Z He's a sullen, switched-off kid, and it's a pretty hollow portrait of disaffected youth. Villain ? review 2011-08-18T20:40:01Z Even so, both Batman and Bruce Wayne mostly come off as sullen brats, jealous of Superman’s glowing skin and saviorlike demeanor. Review: Superheroes Duke It Out in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z A sullen goth named Amelia, she’s tricked out with tattoos and body armor. There’s a bit of Nancy Drew in Louise Penny’s masterful ‘A Great Reckoning’ 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z And the classmate in fourth grade who was slow in reading and arithmetic but entranced me with eyes the sullen gray of late-winter ice. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The album is sullen and raw, drawing from the outlaw country of his Nashville home, grunge and psychedelic rock, and avant-garde electronica. Seattle-area music-and-nightlife events Aug. 10-16: Jack White, Tomo Nakayama, and more 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z When I next saw him, he was sullen and withdrawn. How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Elliot’s world is rendered in a palette of muddy tones, and Malek absorbs those sullen colors like a sponge, his haunted, hollow eyes reflecting their bleakness right back at us. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z One sullen young man expresses his casual nihilism. 2010-01-14T00:31:00Z You can always tell when a company is simply obeying orders by the look of sullen resentment at the curtain call. Best theatre of 2012, No 3: Three Sisters, Young Vic 2012-12-19T17:40:41Z I think the real key to Daniel is, he doesn’t suffer fools, and he doesn’t like feeing foolish himself, and that can come across as sullen or surly when I think it’s just impatience. Daniel Craig: a reluctant Bond who has made the role his own 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the challenge of creating such seamlessly sophisticated fiction is all it takes to explain Quirke, the sullen protagonist created by Benjamin Black. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z Before each foreign engagement, she has to return to Moscow to join sullen, shuffling queues in quest of a visa. Marina Poplavskaya: 'I am a person of extraordinary ability' 2011-04-09T23:05:35Z Inside court, which was held in an oversize room usually reserved for public ceremonies, Blagojevich was subdued and even looked sullen on occasion. Hard time looking likely for Blagojevich 2011-12-07T03:48:00Z On the 1962 version of “Solitude,” featuring the bassist Charles Mingus and the drummer Max Roach, Ellington properly evokes the feeling of isolation through sullen, spacious chords reflecting dark and light textures. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z A sullen concrete, steel-and-glass structure anchored at each corner by a cylindrical service tower, it was meant, with its muscular forms, to relate to a nearby freeway. Critic?s Notebook: Turning a Rearview Mirror on Kevin Roche 2011-02-22T23:36:55Z A modern Osiris, sullen god of the afterlife, climbs up from the dank metropolitan underground. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z The film is enjoyable and was warmly received but Vacth, undeniably a magnetic screen presence, is almost a contrived caricature of the sullen poetic French teen, chain-smoking Gauloises. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z As time advances, Yerma becomes ever more sullen about her childlessness and recedes into isolation. Inspired by Lorca, an L.A. playwright sets off in search of 'Yerma in the Desert' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z On Saturday, I climbed the many steps to the sphere’s entrance and reclined, like everyone else, in a comfortable hammock-like seat, listening to the seductively sullen 2009 debut album by the British band the xx. At the Sonic Sphere, a ‘Whoa’ Moment (and Some Music) 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Despite Jolene’s sullen presence, the lot is an oasis to Ware, and he starts skipping Rec to visit, unbeknown to his harried parents. How Can a Kid Today Hear His Inner Voice? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z But the sullen image has given way to the smooth smile of Amazon, the quotable rogues of the Super Bowl Champion Seahawks, and Macklemore’s staccato success. 20 years after Kurt Cobain died, what changed and what didn’t 2014-04-05T05:04:52Z We learn that Nova Venerable, determined and somewhat sullen, has largely raised a brother with a disability; that Nate Marshall, witty and gregarious, comes from a tough neighborhood and a family full of problems. | 'Louder Than a Bomb': A Stream of Words, Painting a Picture 2011-05-17T22:53:02Z That atmosphere reflects the glowering attitude of Johnny’s posse of would-be playboys that includes Troy Garity as his best friend, and Dylan McDermott as his sullen, cynical agent. | 'Mercy': Scott Caan, Star and Writer of Tough-Guy Romance 2010-04-30T00:17:00Z The teenage Daniel is played by Dominic Rowntree as a sullen, sweet-faced young man clearly hooked on drugs. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z Most surprising was the often sullen Mr. Casablancas’s ability to not take himself as seriously as he once did. Critic?s Notebook: At the Garden, a Retirement and a Resuscitation 2011-04-03T21:54:34Z The character is just a teenager being sullen, but her question unintentionally gets to the heart of the matter. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z Wedged into a three-person seat behind the driver along with a sullen teenager, we had to lean in close to hear each other over the roar of the engine. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z I loved his stage presence: he is very, very calm, but not sullen. Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 2010-03-09T23:20:00Z Go and tear some tissue paper in two, slowly: It sounds just like the sullen purr of bristling vermin. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Chihiro is gradually transformed from a hapless, sullen girl into an active, industrious protagonist. Spirited Away: No 8 2010-10-21T10:47:00Z “The dark puts everybody in a sullen mood,” said Ms. Jank, who was about to buy a pair of gloves. When the Power Came Back, So Did the Crowds 2012-11-07T22:37:20Z Those words are barked out by a British military officer to a sullen soldier and the eyewitness she has been assigned to protect during a counterterrorism sting in a London train station. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Shifting fluidly from demure to sullen and damaged, she is tremendously compelling. In Liana Liberato We 'Trust': A 14-Year-Old's Harrowing Turn Elevates Tale of Pain and Pedophilia 2011-03-31T20:35:00Z With this in mind, I expected a certain grandeur from the 30-year-old star – perhaps that sullen coolness she often exudes on screen. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Asked by the teacher where he would live and what he would do for work, his answer is a sullen “I’ll figure it out.” Review: In ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me,’ Reservation Dreams and Their Limits 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Leavy covers her biographical bases: She revisits Ruth’s upbringing at a Catholic reformatory school in Baltimore, the hasty and unhappy marriage he made in Boston and his sullen retirement spent largely in exile from baseball. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z All of this is photographed with a sullen beauty, the characters often seen as tiny figures in the distance. | 'The Hunter': ?The Hunter? by Rafi Pitts - Review 2012-01-03T23:01:40Z In her last month of pregnancy Byron wrote off Annabella as “a nice little sullen nucleus of concentrated savageness.” Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “My man,” says O, the sullen little babe who gets more than her share of Mr. Winslow’s best lines. Books of The Times: ‘The Kings of Cool’ by Don Winslow 2012-06-17T19:58:19Z Then I became a sullen, chronically online teenager. Celebrating Halloween as an ex-Evangelical: The conflicting highs and lows of reclaiming youth 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z In his analysis of royal portrayals in the most recent season, Vickers had some harsh feedback: The queen, he said, is too “sullen.” Netflix refuses to add disclaimer to ‘The Crown,’ despite pressure from the British government 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z On the left, beside the male dancer, there’s only a sullen little boy watching from his bedroom — and another Lachaise drawing of a figure turning away. A Dollhouse You Could Call Home 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Most famous as a gossip with a silent, sullen companion named Cynthia, she was a comedy favourite for more than 40 years. Windsor to front funny women show 2011-06-17T10:00:38Z Did he win by default, was he grimly given a second chance by a sullen electorate? Obamas in love: the most retweeted moment in history 2012-11-09T15:52:17Z But now, in the film, you see somebody with a normal voice, sullen, in a hotel room. For Gregg Turkington’s Character, There’s No Success Like Failure 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Jumbo, too dumb to recognize a good thing when he sees it, objects to some of Spenser's questions and puts his sullen young bodyguard on him. Parker's `Sixkill' has compelling story line 2011-05-04T11:24:12Z To both of them, I turned a deaf ear and a sullen face. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The band’s new album, also called “Hot Dreams,” will be released by Arts & Crafts on April 1, and suggests a sullen beauty akin to its Polaris prize-nominated 2011 effort, “Creep on Creepin’ on.” Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:42:51Z “Learn to Swim” is lovely to behold, but the sullen artist at the center feels too often like he’s drowning in melancholia and might take us down with him. ‘Learn to Swim’ Review: A Tooth Ache and All This Jazz 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z And what if he defies the stereotype of serial killers as sullen loners by being a family man? Review | ‘American Predator’ reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In search of merry and bright drinking companions in this dark and sullen winter? Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z They’re sullen, cowering souls — snapping and sniping at one another in a big, bleak house in the industrial North of England — as they wait for Father to come home. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Trapped 2013-07-01T15:07:20Z Finally, the man mumbled a sullen, "I ain't comfortable with it, but just don't park in my driveway." Virginia laws used to force raccoon hunters to take Sunday off. Not anymore. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z That’s a more sullen, tougher business — and more painful to witness, since untold numbers of people choose to live this way. "Outlander" recap: "Surrender" shows the high cost of loyalty 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Re: Heart-to-Heart: Your description of your niece as "very sweet" combined with her behaviors seems incongruous; in my experience, rebellious teenagers tend to be sullen and taciturn. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A heart-to-heart with a teenage niece who’s getting into trouble 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In public, he can be sullen, like Vladimir V. Putin, or filled with a sickly whimsy, like the scuzzy-chic photographer Terry Richardson. Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z Dezi’s abscess and his swollen jaw signal when he is in the sullen present or occupies the potent, volatile past. ‘Learn to Swim’ Review: A Tooth Ache and All This Jazz 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z We now know the content to be the musings of Bachelorette loser Nick Viall, who sported a face more sullen than guest star Grumpy Cat during Monday night’s three-hour season finale. The Bachelorette: Read the Letter Nick Wrote Andi to Win Her Back 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z He is strong, sullen and stubborn, a zealous laborer whose working-class upbringing left him with a sturdy moral code and a chip on his shoulder. ‘Luzzu’ Review: Capturing Culture on the Coasts of Malta 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z In the back, three more young women, who arrived just as dawn broke, wear plush sweatsuits and are accompanied by a sullen man in a hooded sweatshirt. Welcome to life in a Vegas diner at 5am: 'Good morning … or good evening' 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z They have their own variants on Lorde’s glum anthems and sullen pride, and Lorde’s technique of nervously accelerating a verse or pre-chorus with a faster flow of words is no longer hers alone. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “You spoke politely with others, but your words turned sullen toward your wife,” Ms. Shin intones from atop her very high horse. Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z With a sullen electorate still deeply resentful over Wall Street’s excesses and the gargantuan government bank bailout of 2008, the drama could not show up in Washington at a more meaningful moment. ‘Sweat’: A necessary if familiar tale of the plight of American workers 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The sons are sullen, resigned and resentful, united above all in their hatred of life at the institute, which does look pretty grim. ‘Web Junkie’ Examines Internet Addiction in China 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Would he not then appear thoughtful rather than sullen? Review: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ Is a Rogues’ Gallery 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Steinbeck called the Sea of Cortez “fierce and hostile and sullen” and said trying to remember it “is like trying to re-create a dream.” On Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, a voyage of discovery 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Three sullen servants become the Three Ladies who serve the Queen of the Night. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Jonigkeit strikes sullen poses and conveys with every twitch the jittery anxiousness of a longtime addict less than committed to recovery. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z Audiences will certainly embrace Virginia, he knows, but what will they think of her sullen partner? 'Masters of Sex' recap: Bill's demons arise during TV shoot 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z She seems a little bored by him and by the experience, as she does by most things, concealing her emotions behind a mask of sullen affectlessness. Movie Review: Marine Vacth in ‘Young & Beautiful,’ by François Ozon 2014-04-24T22:35:14Z Any vampire who took flight in the 45 years since “Interview With the Vampire” was first published owes author Anne Rice the deepest debt of gratitude, sullen devotion and a bouquet of dead roses. Perspective | Anne Rice changed vampires for the better. And helped her fans become their fuller selves. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Further conflict arises from the breakup of the marriage of Mr. Solnicki’s sister and his brother’s sullen alienation. Caught in Family Trees in ‘Where’s Poppa?’ and ‘Papirosen’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The racy montage that serves as its opening scene is clear on one thing: This will not be another sullen season. ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: Relationship Place 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Anonymous: Yes to books, thanks, but sullen boys don’t scare me. Team phones it in during the carpool 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Her sullen face sponges up the emotions of other characters, and of the viewer. Catching Fire: Slow Burn With a Sizzling Star 2013-11-20T19:48:16Z Yet here again, as the city burns, Honda positions the destruction as less shocking than sullen, a spectacle that leads several characters to remember the darkest days of the war. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z Both posed for a lone photographer: she breezed by with a smile; he stood stiff, his face sullen. Celebrity Divorce: Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant 2010-08-20T22:15:00Z In flashbacks, she is angry, resentful and overwhelmed, uncomfortable from the start with her sullen, difficult son. Swinton talks blood, birth and tomatoes in Cannes 2011-05-14T15:01:05Z |
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