| 单词 | dour |
| 例句 | As dour as his mother was, he was anything but. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Then, on Easter Saturday, a dour day, the first quiet Easter Saturday in Ifemelu’s life, her mother ran out of the kitchen and said, “I saw an angel!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Maybe that warmth is genuine, maybe I should be ashamed of my dour, cynical thoughts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was light pastry, not the dour unleavened bread of old Dunlothian. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them lived in kennels built on deck by dour old McNeish, the carpenter. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Hermione bore up reasonably well on those nights when they managed to scavenge nothing but berries or stale biscuits, her temper perhaps a little shorter than usual and her silences rather dour. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He stared at the fire with a dour expression. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The lawyer’s sally induced guffaws, a courtroom flare-up that Judge Tate’s dour gaze soon extinguished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “They seem to be getting slower every day,” a dour and subdued Bolles complained. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Wednesday was smiling, and Nancy was laughing delightedly, an old man’s cackle, and even the dour Czernobog seemed to be enjoying himself. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Her dour frown met Sandoval’s humorless eyes, and it looked like a competition to see who could take my situation more seriously. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Zooey turned and looked at her, and—unpredictable young man—made a very dour face, as though he had suddenly eschewed any and all forms of levity. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z She gave him a hug, and his normally dour face lit up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a murmur of laughter, quickly smothered by dour looks from the other students. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Olanna had expected Mama to dance and look at her with mocking eyes, but the lined face was dour, the smile as she hugged Odenigbo was strained. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, it was definitely dour and of a previous century, and only made worse with doily lace. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Reluctantly Fadi turned his attention to a group of men huddled near the butcher’s counter, dour expressions on their faces. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z With a dour expression on her face, she pushed past Basta and put a mug and a thermos jug on the floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I hope die Weeper burned the bodies,” said the dour man, the one called Dolorous Edd. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Constance resembled a wet hen—same shape, same dour crankiness, and only slightly larger—but Kate smiled when he came in, and the sight of her sunny face gave Reynie a pinprick of hope. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Could be a hundred of them out there,” said the black brother with the dour face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Ford stood tall and aloof and dour under the oak tree where Will had stopped it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Not every result of the Chicago cheating analysis was so dour. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z His visor had been removed from, his helm, to better show his dour face; pouchy bags under his eyes, a wide sour mouth, rusty hair spotted with grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We were a dour group that trudged back to the house, and the first thing Mom did when we arrived was uncork a bottle of wine, fill the glasses, and pass them around. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This was a third voice, more dour than the Archies’, but just as familiar. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Jan was paired with dour Eddison Tollett, a squire grey of hair and thin as a pike, whom the other brothers called Dolorous Edd. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Mind,” said the head of the serving staff, a dour woman named Louise, “she is royalty, so you must make sure you curtsy. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z A tall, dour white woman talked to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Shelley was the store manager, and her slumped shoulders and dour expression were as much a part of her uniform as the blue polo shirts we all had to wear. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Around me each day were dour faces eclipsed by large piles of books. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At first there was passion far beyond what the dour gossip of older women had led Clara to expect, but their relationship chilled rapidly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His face was dour, and he glanced at the chaplain without recognition as the two drew dose on the staircase and prepared to pass. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He had known too many Marine wives and children who had come to their front door and found dour messengers, their faces carved from the ices of duty, standing with tragic news welting their tongues. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A chubby lady, with a face as jolly as her husband's is dour, is giggling in the hall. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bonnie was a dour, spindly woman whose thick girlish braids fell like leashes over the innocent puppies pictured on her sweatshirt. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were mostly men from Osskil, speaking not the Hardic tongue of the Archipelago but a dialect of their own, and they were dour men, pale-skinned with black drooping mustaches and lank hair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was strangely comforting to see Edd’s dour face again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She wore a dour, thoughtful expression and hushed any attempts at conversation. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Unwilling to face the loneliness of the airfield’s spartan accommodation, or a dour granite-faced Aberdeen landlady who wouldn’t accept her ration coupons for an unarranged evening meal, Maddie opted for the train. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Qybum was in attendance, and dour Walton in his mail shirt and greaves, plus a dozen Freys, all brothers, half brothers, and cousins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But I could understand the reason for his dour tone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nearly four years younger than his brother, Ernest, at the age of thirty-one he looked rather the elder: his hairline receding, his face already bearing the dour expression of a country doctor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The others stared at him with dour curiosity, knowing him a rich man, but they did not know him for a Commensal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The old store’s wood shelves were painted a dour green, but stuffed with a rainbow assortment of canned food and bags of chips, pasta, and even marshmallows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Mrs. Martin, resplendent in her yellow silk, silenced Grace’s whispers with a dour look. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was rare in 1989 and arguably rarer now to see a film of this scale have the courage of its convictions, maintaining its dour worldview right up until the bitter and bloody end. The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “Can’t you see how excited I am?” he quipped in a dour German accent. Watch Jimmy Fallon Joke About TIME's Person of the Year Issue 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The delivery boy has an ally, if a fickle one, in N., the dour, laconic dispatch girl from an “adjacent” homeland. Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The main attraction is Mr. Williams’s relentlessly dour performance. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The Old Naval Observatory, across 23rd Street, is walled off behind a security cordon, a dour and forbidding no-go zone, and the nearby Peace Institute building is a monument to institutional self-aggrandizement and ugliness. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Shostakovich was represented by the Second Piano Concerto, with Kirill Gerstein as soloist – a rather dour performance of a work usually described as "lighthearted". Philharmonia/Gardner – review 2013-02-19T18:09:42Z This variety of sibling combat sounds like a recipe for grim reading, but Ms. Toews infuses her dour setup with humor and sympathy. Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Whether it succeeds will depend largely on Hayes’s ability to embody the dour Levant, a sort of public neurotic who may no longer be familiar to contemporary audiences. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Ice Cube is back as the duo's boss, Captain Dickson, and Jillian Bell, as Maya's dour roommate, never lets Schmidt forget he looks too old to be in college. Hill, Tatum reunite to spoof and mock sequels in '22 Jump Street' 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Another dour Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, proclaimed life as “nasty, brutish and short.” Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The psychic and formal exuberance of Fischinger’s film is in marked contrast to the generally dour mood of “Signs & Symbols.” Art Review: ‘Signs & Symbols’ and Oskar Fischinger at Whitney Museum 2012-07-26T20:02:10Z Her sister Norma is capable and dour, a strong agrarian with a flock of carrier pigeons. What made Amy Stewart leave garden bestsellers behind for the novel 'Girl Waits with Gun'? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In French art, she has always been the dour shepherdess with braids, the flat-chested tomboy in tights, the armored goddess on horseback. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z But that would require that the show and Mr. Jones find yet-unseen layers in its relentlessly dour protagonist. Review: In ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ a Warrior Switches Blades 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The familiarly dour donkey is more than a critic; he’s a self-critic. “Christopher Robin,” Reviewed: Disney’s Pleasantly Abrasive New Spin on Winnie-the-Pooh 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z For more than a century, western musical culture has permeated Iranian society, much to the chagrin of a dour Shia clerical establishment. Mahan Esfahani: Why I'm proud to take part in the Proms 2012-07-20T14:06:00Z This dour, molasses-paced neo-noir, about a mysterious figure who becomes embroiled with a nasty criminal and his cohorts, sacrifices coherence and credibility for pretentious stylization. Franco takes dark turn in pretentious crime drama 2010-04-29T06:02:00Z For a group with such lighthearted and sometimes loose ideas about country music, it’s a surprise that the album’s showstopper is its most dour song. New Music: Gloriana, Farm Inc. and Christian Scott Release New Music 2012-07-30T21:47:21Z The two TV presenters broadcasting from the crowd – she in a gold-spangled minidress and rigid curls, him dour in black tie – shot baleful looks in his direction as he carried on honking. Tony awards in Times Square make for perfect street theatre 2012-06-11T13:16:53Z About her hirsute new boyfriend, she writes: “Heist was as unmannerly, as dour and self-enclosed, as an emo guitarist packing in after a poorly attended gig at a bar in Greenpoint.” The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In that dour company, Monteverdi’s bitter laughter will have to do. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The spontaneity of their movements, and the freedom of their interaction, made the "official" exhibit seem dour, even oppressive by comparison. Naked News: We're Still Prudes! Even at the Museum 2010-04-26T20:42:00Z A must-watch because… Some climate-change docs can be on the dour side, but this offers a bright, accessible conversation starter on the subject. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z His books about the dour Irish pathologist named Quirke have effortless flair, with their period-piece cinematic ambience and their sultry romance. Books of The Times: Two Refreshing Splashes of Summertime Homicide 2011-07-03T21:37:35Z However, Dorothy is a dour sourpuss in part because she mourns their late daughter. In "The Duke," Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren make a real-life art heist charming 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They want to show that art of the 1930s wasn’t all dour and provincial — that artists had more choices than WPA murals, American Scene painting and Social Realism. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z Still, that these seven new works exist at all is a significant achievement, especially in such dour economic times. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z It vacillates between being snide and earnest, mean-spirited and sappy, dour and bubbly. How to make "Glee" sing in its second season 2010-06-09T11:40:00Z And it’s far sadder than any of the “Resurrection”-y shows, except maybe that French “Returned” series, which was pretty dour. Hank Stuever on whether AMC is in a rut Leaning against the counter are the extravagantly dour and dumpy storekeepers. Martin McDonagh play crackles with cruelty 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z In 1985 the Mouse House produced a visually rich, emotionally dour sequel, Return to Oz, which never approached the Yellow Brick Road of profitability. Oz Reaps a Wizardly Weekend 2013-03-10T21:58:46Z Husseini said he disagreed with the dour image of Muslim clerics. Lebanese cleric's piano playing strikes wrong note for some 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z In the end, the film is "a joyless, surpassingly dour enterprise, but one that fulfills its mission." 'Mockingjay -- Part 1' is stretched thin but holds, reviews say 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Schmaltzy covers – like Blue Suede Shoes and Fever – confirm the party atmosphere of these revival gigs, crowding out the dour messages of the more hard-hitting songs. Rodriguez – review 2012-11-18T00:06:15Z But it's as if the dour "Interiors" had been reworked by a more forgiving, generous filmmaker who wants to move beyond stereotypes and discover what he calls the "beautiful and ironic" aspects of life. 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger': Woody Allen's new concoction of interesting characters 2010-10-07T19:33:00Z “The Dark Master” is as dour and antisocial as “Earnest” is giddy and garrulous, but both productions are intense experiences in part because the shifting terrain of coronavirus precautions has made them more themselves. Theater Heads North, and in Every Direction at Once 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z I used to find drawing Brown quite dull because he's a dour personality – a big blob with ears. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z He was a dour man as a rule, but he occasionally lit up—eyes glimmering, smile beaming—when he talked about himself. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z In the dining room, meanwhile, an 18th-century portrait of a dour bewigged Scot is leavened by its reflection in glamorous 1930s Venetian mirrors. Mariette Himes Gomez Decorates a Historic Washington, D.C. Home 2014-01-13T05:00:00Z Another dour Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, proclaimed life outside society as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Scarlett, a dour journalist, hates the city so much she can't bear the thought of returning here for a freelance job. Women on the edge, in 2 plays with local settings, on Seattle stages 2012-03-15T21:02:05Z Eyes twinkling, Ms. Kyle asked why it was that Ms. Miller ended up in such dour roles, to which Ms. Miller replied, “That’s a strange question from you especially!” How Did Sienna Miller Wind Up Playing Two Widows in the Same Year? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The patriarchal world of August Strindberg’s dour late-19th-century tragedy “Miss Julie” — with its rigid social hierarchy of masters and servants, and its entrenched puritanical ethos — may seem remote to American audiences. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His dour mood matches the sound here, which is largely the pro forma Queens gangster-rap tectonics of later G Unit records. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z No matter who joined them onstage, though, Havoc and Prodigy remained direct, dour and harsh on songs like “Keep It Thoro” and “Right Back at You.” Music Review: Rap Duo Heads Back to the Stage, Granting No Compromises (or Smiles) 2011-05-13T22:45:09Z And, as if to intentionally make a pretty dour episode worse, The King, the Widow and Rick saw fit to introduce an annoying and precocious kid. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode five recap – The King, the Widow and Rick 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z His character may be the drama's center, but the playfulness Banks brings to Will preventing "Bel-Air" from slipping too far into dour self-seriousness. "Bel-Air" may not be fresh, but it has enough going for it to merit an initial investment 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z But this latest musical adapted from one of Disney’s popular movies, which opened on Thursday night at the New Amsterdam Theater, defied my dour expectations. Theater Review: ‘Aladdin’ Tweaks the Disney Formula With Breezy Insouciance 2014-03-21T02:00:01Z Seth MacFarlane, the creator of TV's Family Guy, has co-written and directed a stoner fantasy which is cynical and lethargic, sour and dour; it is misanthropic, crass, facetious, offensive, immature and very funny. Ted – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z Having glanced into the tent and ascertained that the situation was in hand, he turned his rather dour gaze on a newly arrived reporter. T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z “Merrick, who is supposed to be pretty dour, stood up with a big smile after we finished singing and said, ‘Kid, the show is yours.’” Jerry Herman, Composer of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and Other Broadway Hits, Dies at 88 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The pieces, which range in tone from darkly comic to deeply distressing, present some dour scenarios, nudging readers to consider how they spend their lives. Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Instead, Jaeger means for us to reflect on the competing issues — of morality, social progress and self-fulfillment — laid out in her impressive, albeit rather dour scientific romances. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Given how dour Jon has been of late it was nice to spend time with the rest of the night's watch. Game of Thrones: season two, episode eight ? The Prince of Winterfell 2012-05-21T12:36:49Z They are dark, dour, loosely painted interiors, consistent with his early interest in representation. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It was a time when much of the highbrow fashion industry was fixated on minimalism and the washed-out, dour aesthetic known as heroin chic. Perspective | Kate Spade’s aesthetic was the happy answer to fashion snobbery 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Though not pretentious, his film feels a tad overthought, held back somehow by a stubborn, dour obscurity clouding its freshly realized, lurid milieu. ‘Miss Lovely,’ About Indian Exploitation Films 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z While the plush organs and swooning vocals of their past albums remain intact, askew notes and dour lyrics suggest a new emotional fragility inside the reverie. Pop & Rock Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Coker’s dour expression and minimalist responses to attempts by coaches and others to draw him out are amusing at first, but men of few words are not what appealing drama is generally made of. Theater Review: ?Magic/Bird? at the Longacre Theater 2012-04-12T02:00:00Z Everyone soon discovers that the dour Martin has an illness with an upside: His blood, applied to wounds, has healing powers. Review: ‘Eli Roth Presents the Stranger,’ a Tale Steeped in Blood 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z On the other hand, you’d never worry that if fate deposited her at your house that she’d sit in a corner being Swedish and dour. Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything 2012-06-27T08:30:05Z Also featuring a young Seattle rapper on the rise, a Tumblr-friendly Swedish MC and a tribute to indie rock’s dourest band. Your week in Seattle music: X, The Moondoogies and The Maldives and more 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z With his suave baritone and dour accent, singer Alex Kapranos oozes attitude and control, matching the prancing pout and spring-loaded strut of songs such as "No You Girls" and "Walk Away" at each turn. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z She started to weep, in this dour canteen, as a group of student doctors looked over at us, likely wondering which diagnosis we had just received. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Dix was famous both for his portraits and his dour depictions of Weimar society. Gallery finds art by Nazi-branded "degenerate" Dix 2011-08-31T18:14:50Z “Here” is a dour complement to the empowering uplifters of “Know-It-All,” but it works for the same reason as her other songs. She may not know it all, but Alessia Cara knows how to put on a show 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z “Blind,” with its mystically beautiful images of reflections in an eyeball, “evokes a dreamy, dour fusion of Charlie Kaufman and Ingmar Bergman,” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Blind’ and John Schlesinger’s First Masterpieces 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Cézanne’s images of workers on his family farm — pipe-smoking men sitting around a table, their expressions dour, their dress drab, absorbed in a game of cards — are among his most recognizable works. ?A Card Player,? a C?zanne Watercolor for Sale by Christie?s 2012-03-26T23:27:55Z The boom in Scandinavian crime writing has done nothing to dispel the image of the Swedes as a rather dour people whose cuisine is dominated by the infamous trio of herring, meatballs and crispbread. Choice Tables: Delicious Desserts at Stockholm?s Cafes 2010-12-22T23:15:43Z Occasionally it feels as if the buoyancy signaled by “That’s Amore” and the luscious cinematography were applied like whitewash to disguise a dour family drama. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z The Old Maid card game was often illustrated with a dour woman and her cat, the “friend of the friendless”, as it was described at the time. Claws out! Why pop culture clings to the crazy cat lady 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z On how much of Scotland features in Dredd's DNA, Wagner said: "Well, he's pretty dour, but apart from that I can't make a particularly Scottish connection." Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z In another, he becomes a dour bride, lips puckered as tightly as the white rosebuds in her wedding bouquet. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z How do Davies’ people face or evade the dour clichés of dead-end domesticity? The Long Day Closes: The Passion of Terence Davies 2012-03-23T22:27:48Z It's the late 1950s, and Tatischeff is a French magician of the old school — a dour soul performing sleight-of-hand in front of small crowds in moldy theaters. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z Yes, this dour Swedish master wrote a Christmas play and, even more surprisingly, it’s for children. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In Benjamin Dickinson’s dour, visually stunning “First Winter,” the visitors at an upstate New York yoga retreat find themselves cut off from the outside world during the dead of an unusually harsh winter. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z The first audience certainly found it dour after the excitement and exoticism of his ballets. Music Review: Philharmonic Takes on Stravinsky at Avery Fisher 2010-04-29T20:49:00Z He doesn't know why he keeps being cast in roles that require the kind of dour inner turmoil or quiet villainy he brings. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z He finds these books useful but their authors dour. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z Even with so dour a conclusion, it all sounds winsome and romantic in Maitland’s formulation, which fails to take into account at whose expense opportunity and adventure are made. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Other artists involved with handmade replications include Nate Lowman, who in three paintings appropriates dour photographs from newspapers and then painstakingly copies them by hand in black paint on raw canvas. Art Review | 'Haunted': ?Haunted?: Photos and Appropriation at Guggenheim 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z The protagonist, Detective Superintendent Linna, is a dour but utterly principled and likable fellow. Review | Oh, the horror! Why it’s hard to look away, even when a book is full of gore. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The problem is that Eccleston is one of the best when it comes to being dour and northern on screen. Our friend in the north 2010-06-18T23:03:00Z The world he occupies in this show is a lot more dour than Glee. David Fincher Knows Exactly Why We’re All So Obsessed With True Crime 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And Alt-J wasn’t so dour that it withheld all of arena rock’s easier pleasures. Review: Alt-J at Madison Square Garden 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z I wanted to keep the happiness and joy and explosions of laughter going into a dour part of our lives, not our childhood anymore. Q&A: Mel Brooks, 95, is still riffing 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The dour “McCanick” banks way too much on what it is not telling us, making for a movie that thinks it’s being cryptically suspenseful but is really just annoying. Movie Review: Cory Monteith and David Morse in ‘McCanick’ 2014-03-20T21:29:53Z Hitherto most modern British architecture had been dour, colourless and rectangular. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z The Paul Cret-designed main building is a classic example of the stripped-down, elegant but dour classicism that defines so many government properties built in the 1930s and ’40s in Washington. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But it has a brio that sets it apart; the other big new British import of the season, "Luther" on BBC America, looks dour by comparison. 'Sherlock': A modern Holmes battles crime on PBS 2010-10-22T23:55:00Z Fans should find themselves content with the show’s intensely dour mood and a story flecked with sexual deviance, grim violence and assorted weirdness that seems at least partly inspired by David Lynch movies. ‘True Detective’ Season 2: New cast, setting, same grim self-seriousness 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z And yet for all the stylistic cosplay of the album’s visual presentation, very little of this aesthetic is in the songs, which are mostly eminently fine, occasionally oh-he-really-pulled-it-off nostalgic and more often dour. John Mayer’s Empty 1980s Excess 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The result is something lighter and funnier than the dour superhero movies of late. This Is the Definitive Ranking of Every Single Spider-Man Movie 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z With white-gloved care, they packed and carried away the chosen items, all while under the dour scrutiny of the Ricky Jay bust sitting on a shelf. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Her new book Hard Choices isn’t as dour as the title suggests or as long and boring as it looks. Are You There, Angela Merkel? It's Me, Hillary! 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Then again, the movie’s concessions to silliness keep it from being the dour, self-important exercise that Cloverfield was. Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane Is a Nonsequel That Delivers 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The predictability seemed a bid for populist appeal, and though the dour Mr. Chestnut is no showman, he succeeded in getting the City Center audience involved, clapping the beat between his variations. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival, Program Five, at City Center - Review 2011-11-08T23:05:33Z The sheer power of her books is a challenge to the chilly, dour craftsmanship of too many 21st century literary novels. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In three hours of listless dolor, Matt Reeves’s oppressively dour “The Batman,” which came out this spring, turned its hero into a comically emo Bat-adolescent. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Despite a tumultuous few years of divorce and hospital stays – Josh almost died from over-exercise last year – Ritter is no dour and damaged folk survivor. Josh Ritter – review 2013-07-24T17:40:43Z As a piece of casting, Brown was a perfect chancellor – dour, penny-pinching, calculating, grim – but has struggled after taking over the difficult role of prime minister. Stage-managed? Theatre and the leaders' debate 2010-04-29T14:36:00Z The dialogue is often B-movie grade, and Juliana and Frank, the closest thing the ensemble has to leads, are dull and dour. Review: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Imagines America Ruled by 2 Foreign Powers 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Whippet-thin and strait-laced, he stands in dour contrast to Neruda, a plump sensualist with a robust sense of mischief and an inexhaustible appetite for pleasure. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z This dour, good-looking film, transposed from the American west to a bankrupt sheep station in the Australian outback, is directed by British actor Rachel Ward. Beautiful Kate 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z A lead detective on Bunny's murder case, Kreps is tall, dour and indifferent. “Only Murders in the Building" goes shockingly dark in the making of a villain 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z But Unclebrother has struck a balance, coming to the table with neither the slick wit of today’s big-selling art nor the dour obscurantism that makes so much city art feel hard to engage with. A Catskills Art Scene Makes a Splash With Free Curry 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z There’s almost a Kurt Cobain dynamic with him, where a lot of people, because of the way they passed or the music they wrote, they see them as these dour individuals. New Chris Cornell biography highlights Soundgarden’s role as grunge trailblazers 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamilton was the most direct with his praise, giving a physically invested performance several degrees looser than his records, on which his voice and mien can appear dour. Music: Kem and Jos? James Perform in New York 2010-08-10T22:28:00Z Looking for plausibility in a movie called “Dracula Untold” is as pointless as looking for humor or personality in Mr. Evans’s dour performance. ‘Dracula Untold,’ in Which Prince Vlad Battles the Turks 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The book finds dour, bumbling pathologist Garret Quirke trying to get to the bottom of the apparent suicide of a Dublin newspaper owner. Writer Banville enjoys new lease on life as Black 2011-07-12T21:04:27Z Smith, a professor at Yale, arrives at some dour conclusions, but is skilled at bringing abstract concepts to light. New in Paperback: ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Improvement’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z A generation ago, Julia Roberts bounced back from a string of dour flops with the breezy "My Best Friend's Wedding," proving that giving the people what they want is rarely a bad idea. In "Love Life," Anna Kendrick tries to bring back 2012 Anna Kendrick 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Ramírez brings a dour elegance to Versace’s creativity and moods — and one episode somewhat opaquely references Orth’s reporting that Versace was HIV positive, which was supposedly kept private to protect the business. Review | FX’s ‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’ reaches for beauty but can’t find meaning 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z In “The Eagle,” for instance, Mr. Sutherland serves as a temporary foil and mentor for Channing Tatum, the blunt and brooding star, whose dour quest to restore his family honor drives the narrative. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z Yet this play is not a dour exercise. ‘Zero Cost House’ Review: Could Thoreau Save Us Now? 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z New York magazine's Bilge Ebiri says "Woman in Black 2" is a "dour, drab, dark movie, enlivened by some moderately effective chills in the first half but ultimately undone by its downbeat aimlessness." 'Woman in Black 2' haunted by horror cliches, reviews say 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In many parts of the country, though, Prohibition never took on the atmosphere of dour, blanket disapproval suggested by the hatchet-faced anti-smokers in "Thanks for the Light." ArtsBeat: A ‘Fantastic’ Fitzgerald Story, Resurrected in The New Yorker 2012-07-31T20:35:58Z The result is a Claymation castaway, in black and white, its enlarged eyes further exaggerating Baudelaire’s famously dour portrait. Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited Through Contemporary Art 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Hobson’s rather dour interpretation of the Schumann sometimes sounded labored and humorless, lacking an essential dramatic flair. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z And the High Line is bringing a fringe of green to dour streets. Art Trek: From Hot to Schlock: Holland Cotter Tours Chelsea Galleries 2014-04-03T22:41:59Z Often, late at night, my classmates and I pondered the dour logic of specialization. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z His are portraits of a vanishing Ireland, a painting alight with country faces - farmers leaning over the gate at the mart - all dour faces and flat caps. Miraculous tales of the Irish cure 2013-09-27T05:13:00Z The story could have been played up for heroic martyrdom, but Mr. des Pallières takes his dour film in another direction. Mads Mikkelsen Stars in ‘Age of Uprising’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z All theories about a drag act appealing to dour, northern puritans and thus packing this dying auditorium for eight weeks and possibly on till April are blown to the wind. Danny La Rue's Queen of Hearts: from the Guardian archive, 21 December 1972 2012-12-21T07:30:00Z “Liar” is stenciled across the top of a dour 1961 painting at the Whitney. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But however dark, his music is never dour; its willingness to bear witness to despair is born of generosity and empathy. Review: Sept. 11’s Monumental Despair, Evoked by Solo Piano 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Looking at the cast list, I say, I notice there is no Harold Macmillan or Edward Heath, two of the dourest leaders of recent times. Stephen Daldry 2013-02-10T07:00:19Z Starring Alec Guinness as the dour, ironically named intelligence expert George Smiley, the series had an unusually long reach. Carpetbagger Blog: How Hard Is It to Adapt a Hit Book? Ask the Makers of 'Tinker, Tailor' 2011-12-01T15:57:47Z The mood is decidedly dour, and the crux is Sylvia’s lawsuit against her brothers to try to dissolve the business. Horace and Pete: Louis CK’s surprise new web series is dark and difficult 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The comic strokes undercut the tension that the film expertly builds, but they aren’t isolated — an element that sets “Bridge of Spies” apart from the dour, alienated tone of classic Cold War movies. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly stayed dour and unsmiling, singing in an unpretty deadpan and playing terse guitar solos edged with psychedelic fuzz. Music Review: Staring Down Death And Lust With a Sly Eye 2010-10-07T22:23:00Z He was known for figurative work of a decidedly dour postwar cast that culminated in a series of drawings of truncated bodies and body parts floating in tilted, tile-lined bathrooms. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z A few of us were fans of the dour cop in “Single-Handed.” Review: From Ireland, a Rebounding Lawyer and a Crusading Journalist 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Like the wares — men’s and women’s clothing, children’s wear and accessories — the ambience in this meandering space evokes the dour London of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper. | AllSaints Spitalfields: The Rugged Charm of Jack the Ripper?s London 2010-06-09T01:28:00Z His father, a doctor, was a dour man. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z Such collisions of hallucinatory images and dour realism—the waltzing priest, the marital argument—are common in Dylan’s work, yet here the literary touches seem less an artful device than a form of extreme emphasis. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z To put things in a more expansive context: their shared celebrity came into being in the wake of one of the most dour and altogether tragic news cycles on record. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's confessional, unapologetic "Wedding Album" 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z They did two things with Beck: they created the normal-cop-in-a-normal-city paradigm, the dour guy a little down on his luck; and they used a crime series explicitly as social critique. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z Considine, a fine actor in a dour role, plays Gabe Waters, a former undercover cop who now seeks out, trains and handles informants in the South Asian community. Review: ‘Informer’ Finds a Fresh Take on the Terrorism Thriller 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In theory, a film about dour Italian farmers is perhaps not the most obvious thing to turn to at a time of unprecedented global crisis and widespread personal suffering. My streaming gem: why you should watch Happy as Lazzaro 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The first season was super dour, almost drowning in its own tears and suffocating on its own depression. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z With stringy black hair shrouding her face, India is a dour, intelligent introvert - a kind of Victorian shadow of Wasikowska's Jane Eyre. Review: Park Chan-wook's lurid melodrama 'Stoker' 2013-02-28T02:01:08Z A hopeful tale of a family rebuilding after tragedy will close this year's rather dour edition of the Cannes Film Festival on an optimistic note Sunday. Life-affirming French film closes Cannes 2010-05-23T07:25:00Z Over the summer, Obama was repeatedly photographed sitting glumly in the Cabinet Room of the White House, flanked by dour congressional leaders. Obama's tax cut victory reflects a change in tactics 2011-12-24T01:59:00Z There’s a misconception that to be taken seriously at work, you must dress as dour and gray as your office’s institutional carpet. For Fall, Feel the Clash 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Huston's movie is a dour well-considered biography of Toulouse-Lautrec, essentially a tragic story. French Cancan ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:02Z There’s just one problem: She still seems like the dour misanthrope who first packed her bags. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z What I was not prepared for was his utterly dour and humorless demeanor. The sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exhile 2013-01-12T14:00:00Z Its mood is reflective but never dour: tempos waft and rustle, and melodies unfold like night-blooming cactuses. The Week Ahead: Nov. 14-20 2010-11-14T06:30:00Z People automatically assume Bach was this dry, dour, mathematical composer. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z “Thammavongsa’s gift for the gently absurd means the stories never feel dour or predictable, even when their outcomes are by some measure bleak.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “I thought it was going to be some kind of dour Scandinavian novel,” he said. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z There must be a dour bartender who signals: "In the back" with his head but otherwise does not speak. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z Sobol, as previously suggested, has written a dour and cynical book, an extreme example of the “aw, nuts” genre of sports reporting. Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “I’m constantly being made fun of as this terrible doom-sayer. The dour German. But this is not the whole story,” he says. Werner Herzog: 'I'm fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The concept itself is a bit of an eyebrow raiser, in that it asks viewers to find laughs in the blending of a dour setting with a population many actively dismiss. Don’t get weird, OK? Let new comedy “People of Earth” take you to a better place 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The film is not completely dour - there are moments of sly humor, and Reygadas cites silent comedian Buster Keaton as a major influence. Mexico's Reygadas brings surrealism to Cannes 2012-05-24T14:19:12Z In addition, audiences do not seem to be in the mood for dark and dour, and “Nightmare Alley” is pitch black. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Ensnares Audiences and Refills Studio Coffers 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z His father’s intemperate nature is dour while Falstaff’s is far more congenial. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Apparently, the dour general wasted no love on his foes. Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z “Fantasy is often represented as dire and dour and gray, and it’s all dusty because it’s the worst time in the world,’ ” she said, laughing. Take a Look at the Inspirations Behind ‘The Witcher’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z They have large ginger beards and a tendency to dress in the dour, high-collared mode of dry-goods purveyors from a century ago. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z One painting is grisaille, its carefully balanced grays setting a dour but minimalist tone of elegant propriety. Paul Winstanley conjures a reflective expressiveness at 1301PE 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z If all this is five percent too Technicolor, five percent too illustrative, I’d rather have that than a production that is five percent too dour. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The dour mood is also a far cry from what most envisioned when Brazil secured hosting rights in 2007. Days before World Cup, much of Brazil just not in the mood 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z By contrast, the men were generally shambolic or dour or tentative. Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z He also talked about what it was like to play the dour character: “In Thorne’s boots is not a nice place to be,” he said. Game of Thrones Actor Talks Being Killed Off in Oathbreaker Scene 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z We begin in the singularly unhappy home ruled by Andrew Borden, a dour, tightfisted patriarch. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z In his 70s, at any rate, the author was a startling combination of ribald and dour, adorable in proportion to his dogged efforts not to be. Review: Reviving a ‘Really Rosie’ That’s Hard-Candy Cute 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z He’s dour, in any case, and the garrulous exuberance of his companion — a kibbutz choirmaster named Yehuda Sharett — does nothing to alleviate his mood. Review: ‘A Walk With Mr. Heifetz’ Stumbles Through History 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But Nine has such a buoyant spirit and such an appreciation for this place and these native people that he makes Four seem dour and hardhearted. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z She dons a dour wig for the role, little makeup and, during the initial season, one vintage dress that disintegrated from constant wear. ‘Downton’ funk: The end of ‘Abbey’s’ road draws nigh 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z As a personality, he could come across as dour. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The Roundabout Theatre Company’s version, co-directed by Mendes and choreographer Rob Marshall, is finishing its tour at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre, where it continues to be imposing, dour, and not much fun. Review | Sam Mendes’s ‘Cabaret’ icy and not much fun at the Kennedy Center 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z In “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” a playfully arch and unsettling film based on Shirley Jackson’s 1962 novel, there’s nobody obvious to root for; everyone is dour, foolish, phony or deranged. ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Review: An Arch, Feminist Fairy Tale 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z As dour as the griping sometimes got, both maintained a sense of humor about themselves and their style of music. SXSW 2013: Hawtin, Deadmau5 see cracks in EDM's rise 2013-03-13T16:09:00Z He also congratulated himself on his “overall swagger” and the dour expression that the cast calls “tennis face.” They Can Act. But Can They Serve? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Elbow closed Saturday with music for festival dads, climaxing with a firework display at odds with their dour anthemic rock. Latitude festival 2012 – review 2012-07-16T09:43:10Z In spite of how all this sounds, and the title, “Catastrophe” is never dour or dull. Smart Watch: Salon's guide to TV this week 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z While the ocean liner, especially during Prohibition, was a refuge for sybarites of all stripes, Gibbs himself was a rather dour teetotaler, persnickety and, despite being a devoted husband, something of a chauvinist. T Magazine: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2012-08-06T21:00:59Z The dour tone ably contrasts the era’s paranoia with the rudimentary technological assets that agents were working with, parsing the manifesto with legal pads, photocopies and whiteboard diagrams rather than Windows 95. Review | What if more TV shows were anthologies? Viewers might be less overwhelmed. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The choreography is busily attentive to the music at the level of notes, accents and even tone color, especially in cartoonish bits that clash with the dour expressionism, but rarely in longer phrases and contours. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z On the lam from a failing marriage, her moody petulance perfectly channels her mom’s dour gloom — the adage that mothers live in daughters never rang more true. Mining the drama of everyday life in 'Gulf View Drive' 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z She imitates her father, who is methodical and dour. Books of The Times: ?The Land of Decoration? by Grace McCleen 2012-03-21T22:17:22Z There's a certain dour academic propriety to his reading of the man, and it's a little depressing to be told that Caravaggio was not a violent whoremongering wastrel but "an intellectual and sophisticate". Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z Opening track In Old Theaters is piano pop, only really dour, like a suicidal Ben Folds. New band of the day ? No 1,064: Arrange 2011-07-18T16:04:09Z In Nirvana’s final stretch of shows, the mood was more dour, Ms. Warnick recalled. Nirvana Concerts Could Be Beautiful Wrecks 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z We could just accept that we’ll have good female vice presidents and bad ones, charming ones and dour ones, ambitious ones and . Perspective | Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z You couldn’t look more “rock dude” than he did: all that hair, the dour expression. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z We talk some more about Mad Men, about: "The swirl and sound and fury of it… For a show that is as dour and moody and pendulous as ours, we have fun." Mad about the man 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The dour Suhaila, who raised her brother almost single-handedly, is about to leave Singapore to marry her Australian fiancé and is critical of her Aiman’s new job. Review: In ‘Apprentice,’ Teaching the Fine Art of Execution 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z This is the dour world of “Beneath the Harvest Sky.” ‘Beneath the Harvest Sky’: a teenage slice of small-town life 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z For novices who are put off by the director's reputation as a dour, difficult doom master, the film provides a good introduction. Fanny and Alexander: No 8 2010-10-20T10:47:00Z At one point, Wendy’s daughter, Berry, punctuates a dour fight with the line, “Sayonara, Mama.” ‘The Lost Girls’ Review: Wendy’s Telling of Peter Pan 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z And if the four main characters are meant to personify the decline of Western civ, Polanski’s one significant addition to the play undercuts that dour generalization. Polanski's Carnage: When Talk Turns Toxic 2011-12-14T14:55:31Z It's all very serious and intense and even if Time to Kill – where dour guitar rock meets the colourmotion of the dancefloor – doesn't quite slay as a single it does contain the seeds of greatness. New band of the day ? No 1,272: Gold & Youth 2012-05-21T15:13:03Z While Beverly Hills, 90210, which ran at the same time, was glossy, aspirational and full of adults playing teenagers, this was dour, painful, awkward and realistic. Six to watch: teen drama 2011-01-27T12:53:00Z He was talking to a Finnish poet, who was rather dour as Finnish poets tend to be and said he was having terrible troubles with his parents. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z He does sometimes buy less strident graphics, like an 1840s ad for “oxygenated bitters” with typography around a portrait of the potion’s dour Vermont manufacturer. Antiques: Americana Shows That Keep It Local 2011-03-31T20:37:29Z Yet as his dour demeanor softens, a thousand subtle signs telegraph the transformation, as seen in the way he walks, talks, combs his hair and even smiles. In the movies, a change of clothes makes the man 2011-08-03T18:09:56Z This 25-song playlist of holiday originals — one of three exclusives on Amazon’s streaming services, alongside “Acoustic Christmas” and “Indie for the Holidays” — is mostly dour and straight-faced, but the few exceptions are heartening. Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z With its dour farm figures portrayed with the flat but meticulous detail of a Northern Renaissance masterwork, the painting seemed a natural extension of the painter himself, who cultivated a homespun, folksy persona. Review | The wonderfully queer world of ‘American Gothic’s’ Grant Wood 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z As the leading character in a musical, Caroline is unique: Titanically dour, she seeks to repel all sympathy her circumstances might invite. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Others lending their talents to the voice cast include Oscar Nuñez and Weird Al Yankovic, who guest stars as a dour camper van — a sort of Eeyore of the highways — named Latch. ‘Firebuds’ Gives a Face to Emergency Workers, and Their Vehicles 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Edwards is too dour, his sidekicks too bland, and they’re forced to trade exchanges like: “We keep asking ‘how.’ TV Tonight: Cuckoo Clocks 2013-02-14T12:09:18Z Maybe people can't see my ordinary, rather dour facial expressions as easily and so they don't seem to think I'm the total jerk they seemed to think I was before. Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt: 'I'm very, very familiar with unrequited love' 2012-02-08T18:04:00Z It is, in the dour language she militates so brilliantly against, a book that needed to be written. Books of The Times: ‘How to Be a Woman,’ by Caitlin Moran 2012-07-26T21:53:58Z Generation Golf was not only named after an advertising slogan, but audaciously ended with Illies thanking not only his literary agent but Helmut Kohl, the notoriously dour Christian Democrat chancellor. 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies – review 2013-07-19T09:00:01Z Don’t be fooled by the scaffolding that wraps around the exterior of the Booth Theater, doing its dour best to look uninviting. Review: ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, Leading With Joy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Campbell describes the mechanics of these jobs in comprehensive detail and with a measured levity that keeps the dour stench of death from overwhelming the pages. Here Are the Nitty-Gritty Details of Death Nobody Wants to Talk About 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Phoenix is a craggy, dour Jesus, a scourger and self-scourger who’s closer in tone to an Old Testament enforcer than a liberator of the spirit. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Compared with dour neutrals and ironic casual wear, Marni is an antidepressant, the Prozac to the prosaic. At Marni, Shopping the Good Shop Lollipop 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z And if the four main characters are meant to personify the decline of Western civ, Polanski's one significant addition to the play undercuts that dour generalization. Roman Polanski's "Carnage" at the Venice Film Festival: No, You're Beastly! 2011-09-02T09:10:00Z Her resting-face frown may suggest dour determination, but her moments of levity are surprisingly generous. ‘Lumière’: An Actress Destined to Be in the Light 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z It can get too dour, this image wrangling, like the Decemberists with a migraine. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z “I think everything has its place and has something to say, but I don’t like the stuff that’s too dour,” he says. Less po-faced, more pow! Why Netflix and Marvel need to lighten up 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The show is not a dour exercise, even if a sense of darkness pervades until the slightly too-sunny ending. Two Tales of Disconnection, With One Cicada Cameo 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z She finds Ruben dour, and his fixation on the Turks and history boring. In This Corner, an Armenian Pro Wrestler. In That Corner, Genocidal History. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “He doesn’t have that sort of dour, he-man thing to him,” Mr. Fine said. Reality TV Star Bear Grylls Tries Khakis On for Size 2012-02-24T22:01:09Z People speak of troubling weather patterns, ruined harvests and dour birthrates in Mexico. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 6: Trade Delegation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Apparently learning nothing from the previous film in the series, "Rambo: Last Blood" is even more bleak and dour than its predecessor, making it a depressing slog from the first frame. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z A little of that goes a long way, and the movie’s dour energy is what eventually kills it. Review: Green Room Is More Unpleasant Than Pleasurably Tense 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” : The great choreographer gets his name in the title of the 1993 film, but it’s remembered mostly for its use of a dour Macaulay Culkin as the Nutcracker and Prince. Nuttier Nutcrackers In contrast, the law today is milder to nonheterosexuals than ever, but much queer talk has turned dour. In One City, 2,000 Years of Gay History 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But Mr. Friend is trying to show the world that he’s more than just a dour face. Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z An hour of television so relentlessly dour that it leaves nothing for anyone to cling to. Every episode of Black Mirror – ranked! 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z At left, Spaniards loiter in their dour capes and ruffs, eyeing the party. How Colonial Artisans Dazzled the New World 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Many of these songs sparkle with insight and the daring of a shape-shifting vocalist, but a handful assume too readily that maturity and seriousness are only achieved through dour restraint. Hayley Williams Lays Down New Roots on Her First Solo Album 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Now, on the musician’s more upbeat and sensual fourth album, “Gloria,” Smith, who uses they/them pronouns, is singing a less dour tune. Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Dimon is surely right to make a connection between the oppressive world of Lorca's play and the dour parody of Stella Gibbons's novel Cold Comfort Farm, both of which appeared in 1933. A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale 2010-10-05T20:29:00Z In the past," says Coltrane, "political engagement was boring and dour. Edinburgh fringe shows find new ways to tackle political comedy 2012-08-09T14:57:48Z Wonder Woman took place during World War I, building a trench between that movie and the dour Batman v. Setting Captain Marvel in the 90s Is a Great Idea 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Today’s conventional wisdom regards Bergman as a dour Scandinavian brooder who specializes in the romantic/erotic lives of neurotic characters and the absence of God. Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But it was also difficult to cast the right actor to play the dour intelligence expert George Smiley, who had been memorably portrayed by Alec Guinness in the 1979 British mini-series. Carpetbagger Blog: 'Tinker, Tailor' and the Smell of Damp Tweed 2011-12-02T16:00:17Z “They did at one point,” comes the dour voice of the Mattel rep, who is lurking in the background. Former Spice Girl Geri: ‘I like myself a bit better now’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Frank is a gruff, dour corporate executive who works out obsessively and faces life cynically. “Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z He loved the bright colors and celebratory culture, something that influenced his spirit and penchant for exuberant work in an often dour art world. Up Close: Tripoli Patterson, Gallery Owner and Surfer — Up Close 2012-07-25T15:54:35Z In that very slow film, Cynthia Nixon plays a dour poet whose family sits in dim parlors, staring blankly at books and one another. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z I do genuinely think these paintings are rather beautiful things in that admittedly fairly dour canon of English early 18th-century art. Greenwich's Painted Hall shipshape after restoration 2013-05-02T15:14:40Z The two even share a few wry exchanges, lending humor to an otherwise dour narrative. ‘Oxygen’ Review: The Thrill of Claustrophobia 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Listen to those dour curmudgeons out there, decrying the faults of our current “Age of Amateurs.” How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Why you’ll love it: Because you want a palate cleanser to wash away all the dour procedural TV torment of late. Patriot: part Homeland-style fable, part stoner spy comedy 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Despite his eccentricities, however, Anthony still radiates a dour and earthy sort of charm. "Wild Mountain Thyme" review: John Patrick Shanley delivers the year’s most demented rom-com 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Jackson has her cast deliver their dialogue in English which just adds to the unusual mood, with some wonderfully dour humour. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-08-19T23:08:01Z Grunge and its raffish offshoots, once dour expressions of a wholesale rejection of fashion, are back for an encore, reborn, paradoxically, as fashion’s last word. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z Rather than turn “Old Town Road” dour, perhaps with a performance by some country elders, the Grammys leaned into the mayhem. A Big Night for the Grammys’ Rookie Class 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z So far the show favors dour bickering over fish-out-of-water rural humor, much to its detriment. | 'The Fabulous Beekman Boys': Two City Slickers Become Farmers on Planet Green 2010-06-15T22:41:00Z This past weekend, meanwhile, another troubled actor, Randy Quaid, managed to draw an audience in Vancouver for an act involving musical renditions of his paranoid delusions, including a dour ditty "Star Whackers." Is awful the new good? 2011-03-21T20:03:00Z During the show's original run, Essex was a dour world full of put-upon prisoners' wives knocking around uselessly inside beige shopworn World of Leather showhomes. Can TV's returning Birds of a Feather cope in Towie's Essex of today? 2013-06-18T12:12:30Z No matter what, Robinson is surprisingly deft at dramatic roles, and his comic chops will hopefully bring at least a little levity to an often very dour show. Mr Robot: what we know about season two 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The movie opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, and Boyle, 62, spoke to Reuters about it, his uniquely dour outlook on the world and the real-life battle between man and machine. T.C. Boyle discusses "The Lie" in movies 2011-11-18T19:29:19Z The Globes will attempt, after all, to puncture many viewers’ dour moods. Why Jimmy Fallon’s Stunts Won’t Work at the Golden Globes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z If the idea of a Cold War series produced from the vantage of a divided country leads you expect a dour, grim story of the conflict’s costs, Deutschland 83 will be a pleasant surprise. Review: In Deutschland 83, East Meets West Germany 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Schoenaerts’s dour André may make conceptual sense, but he leaves a hole in this handsomely mounted costume drama that would have profited from more intrigue and a steamier erotic atmosphere. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Doyle enjoys poking fun at Doyle, his habit of making sure his books are stocked at various bookstores, his dour pomposity. ‘Threshold’ Resurrects the Angry, Ambitious Young Man 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z For the first time, Heidecker sounds unapologetically like himself on tape — dark but not dour, witty if not necessarily here for punchlines. Tim Heidecker found fame through absurdist humor. His new album ‘Fear of Death’ is no laughing matter. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Sanchez, rooted in place next to a piano, seemed uncomfortable with the dour lyrics, which included odd lines like “Should have kept my mouth shut and kept it all to myself.” ArtsBeat: Phillip Phillips Wins 'American Idol,' Beating Out Jessica Sanchez 2012-05-24T03:19:45Z Its farcical physical humor could make children giggle, while absurdist gags — a day-care center called “The Ayn Rand School for Tots” — could bring a smile to the dourest PhD candidate. Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Encountered one by one in galleries over the years, they’ve tended to look blank and dour. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Bruce grew up with five siblings in a home tightly circumscribed by T.C.’s paltry salary and the dour provincialism of Simcoe, in the southwest corner of the province, not far from Lake Erie. Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Only to have the insulted store clerk respond to me in dour English: “No, I do not sell stamps.” Is Paris truly the City of Romance? It all depends on who you’re with. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z "It was always pretty poor," he says, even if he can see there was a peculiar alchemy in Cook's sense of musical fun being married to his own dour lyrics. Happy hour again: Paul Heaton tours UK pubs on his bike 2012-06-06T17:30:11Z But “White Collar Brawler” has one inestimable advantage: It will end with an actual fight, in which the blocky, dour Mr. Houghteling appears to be the favorite over the skinny, pixieish Mr. Hasson. Watchlist: Boxers, Trekkies, Lilliputians and Other Favorites 2010-12-11T23:20:00Z One can imagine countless other species — and our own fragile renaissance — faltering back into the dour scenario that we students mulled on those gloomy nights. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z He married a rather dour woman against the objections of her family, and their marriage eventually soured. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He’s going, “This is fun,” and not just an incredibly dour boxing match. 'Captain America: Civil War' Writers on How to Write a Believable Fight Scene 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Filmed in shades of blue and gray, the dour Norwegian drama “King of Devil’s Island” evokes a blood-chilling climate of eternal winter. | 'King of Devil?s Island': Stellan Skarsgard in ?King of Devil?s Island? - Review 2011-11-17T22:54:18Z Resentment runs rife in "Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police," a decidedly dour documentary based on a memoir by band guitarist Andy Summers. Andy Summers' 'Losing You' gets lost in bitterness 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z And Lee Greenwood joined them for “God Bless the U.S.A.,” a dour march of national pride. Concert for Trump Misses an Opportunity 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z A scene in which she torments an earnest, robo-calling pollster is especially funny, and a nice respite from the mostly dour material. | 'Bridesburg': ?Bridesburg? at Gene Frankel Theater - Review 2012-01-23T22:55:31Z But Jane was not dour, like some of the tough ones in there were. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z While many of these films sound dour — on Sunday’s “Veep,” one character dubbed documentaries “movies for people who like to be sad” — others at the festival are more optimistic. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Artistic directors began to look to a dour and nihilistic political theatre to reflect a more despairing zeitgeist, or to more commercial projects to keep their doors open. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z But the New York Times' Charles Isherwood, who admitted he was not enthusiastic about the prospect of yet another Disney show on Broadway, said the show defied his dour expectations. Disney's 'Aladdin' unleashes a genie on Broadway 2014-03-21T18:58:12Z You may think you want feminism in your personal relationships, the dour reactionaries of mainstream media warn, but you’ll be sorry if you try it, ladies. This discovery about female sexuality will make conservatives’ heads explode 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z His afterlife is more likely to be on YouTube, where his best bits can be pulled out of context and assembled into a free-form collage of dour silliness. Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs 2010-12-01T20:43:00Z For all of its ominousness, “Perfect Sense” is also a dour celebration of the ability to adapt. Movie Review: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in ?Perfect Sense? 2012-02-03T00:41:58Z Then it's on to Queen Victoria, who beyond her dour public persona was apparently something of a "sexual dynamo". TV highlights – 09/05/2013 2013-05-09T05:59:01Z On its own, this tribute doesn’t have much traction, but it’s just one component in a sprawling, must-see installation that makes West Coast art look so dour as to be almost unrecognizable. Art in Review: Jonathan Monk 2011-04-01T01:54:46Z Stannis, with his dour gray attire and somber smirk, has the look and disposition of, like, a middle-manager at an office supply company, or a chartered accountant. Stannis “The Mannis” Baratheon: Why he’s the best “Game of Thrones” character — and rightful king of Westeros 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z There could be no more impressive demonstration of modern orchestral virtuosity at its committed best than this performance, which at the end brought a faint smile from even the normally dour Dutchman himself. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z “If You Don’t, I Will” is a dour, acutely observed comedy about marital boredom that doesn’t glamorize or overdramatize the characters’ angst. ‘If You Don’t, I Will’ Stars Mathieu Amalric 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z His Times story lists some indicators of our current dour state. We don’t need more optimists: Unchecked positive thinking is more dangerous than it sounds 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z As I wrote when I reviewed the premiere, “The Path” needs that injection of sexual energy to leaven an otherwise dour show. Sex on TV is easy to find — but good sex isn’t 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z But these themes are diluted by the movie's extremely dour vibe, thin characterizations and limited context. 'As Night Comes' a dour look at teen alienation 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Meaning the Osborne Apartments, which is a kind of grand but dour stone palazzo from the 1880s by James E. Ware. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z What he captured in paintings and drawings were the figures of stocky, pipe-smoking men, their expressions dour, their dress drab. Inside Art: Metropolitan to Host C?zanne?s ?Card Players? 2010-12-09T23:15:00Z The meticulous flurry of her 24-song set translated the sometimes dour arrangements of her recorded catalogue into magnetic, vibrant moments. Review | Indie artist Mitski expresses songs with voice and legs 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The makeup on him is getting darker, too, I think, which adds to the sour, dour effect. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z But a routinely overlooked participant in that song is the dour church lady who oversees the ceremony and slips in barbed remarks disparaging marriage. Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell Blends Songs and Theater in ‘Plays With Music’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z By contrast, the characters in Modern Warfare 2 are somber, even dour. 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2': Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Shifts Momentum in This War 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z On Broadway the characters did not appear as adults until after a somewhat dour prologue about the hard-knock life of ogres. Arts & Leisure: Flops on Broadway? Fix Them Overseas 2011-07-29T13:56:39Z Some of the season’s more dour observances are noted with a single carol or hymn apiece, but given the nature of the feasts these are in some ways the most striking. Music Review: Evoking the Moods and Mysteries of a Medieval English Christmastide 2010-12-22T23:06:12Z But it has a brio that sets it apart; the other big new British import of the season, “Luther” on BBC America, looks dour by comparison. | 'Sherlock': The Latest Sherlock Hears a ?Who? 2010-10-21T22:24:00Z Mr. Isaac said that performing the play hasn’t felt especially dour. Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z A panel on the south wall shows a group of dour women manufacturing pharmaceuticals, under the stern watch of an overseer spying on them through a rear-view mirror. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Any suggestion that he might marry one of his girlfriends was met with an incredulous laugh, followed by a dour look. Riff: What Don Draper and Christian Grey Have in Common 2012-06-22T21:48:00Z There’s also the Holiday Special’s plot, which features a trade blockade in space – a bit of dour realpolitik Lucas wasn’t too shamefaced to use again in 1999’s The Phantom Menace. May the farce be with you: the Star Wars Holiday Special they want us to forget 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Some critics found it dour and didactic and some audiences apparently found its sadness off-putting. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z But when March came around, Orbit's tone was rather more dour: "Blur could have been good," he tweeted. Blur have abandoned album sessions, says William Orbit 2012-05-24T11:48:27Z He sported one of the worst haircuts this side of the Appalachians but was surprisingly lucky with the ladies, even if he did finally narrow his sights on dour Angela. ‘The Bassoon King’ review: There’s more to Rainn Wilson than Dwight Schrute 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z His life is projected on to a screen while a dour angel looks on. The prints of darkness 2010-06-01T13:35:00Z The initial feeling from prospective producers was that the miners' strike was too dour a subject, and no one will want to see a boy doing ballet. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z We were both from the north-east, both danced our way out of hard, dour streets and up to London, and both were sure we were on the road to success of some kind or other. Jack Birkett obituary 2010-05-28T15:44:00Z Hans Graf, a musician of high distinction, led the orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s dour, overstuffed Symphony No. 2 and offered a mature counterweight to violinist Ray Chen’s fripperies in the Tchaikovsky Concerto. BSO offers excitement and maturity at Strathmore The soundtrack was some sort of manic disco, a genre, it is safe to say, no one associates with this dour sphynx of fashion. American Chic on the Runways of Paris 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z A tiresome, postmodernist meditation on the aesthetics and sociology of cosmopolitan modernity, Mr. Kuitca’s art exudes a dour, unfocused mood. Art Review: The Bowery?s New, Narrow Showcase for Art 2010-09-23T20:55:00Z “Row, row, row your little dreamboat violently back upstream,” Mr. Russell sings in the sepulchral tone of a dour country prophet warning of inevitable doom. | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z The British series has taken Mr. Mankell’s irritable character and pushed him to new depths of dour angst and desperation. The Detective Kurt Wallander on DVD 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z In the second half of the season, “Rise” becomes more vibrant, less dour. Review: ‘Rise’ Is No ‘Friday Night Footlights’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Kissinger's early academic publications, steeped in a now-dated existentialist lexicon, read as dour and portentous today. 'Kissinger's Shadow' explores diplomat's long reach in U.S. foreign policy 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z When a comet passes near the earth’s atmosphere in the dour dystopian thriller “Only,” it first brings falling ash and then a virus that is usually fatal to women. ‘Only’ Review: A Desperate Dystopia Where Women Are Erased 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Among a dour mix of genres lacking a single live-action comedy, the top 10 movies gave exhibitors little to smile about. Who's No. 1: Clint? Jake? Jennifer? Guess. 2012-09-23T21:00:29Z But this still brings me back to the question of when networks and studios will finally stop mining dour apocalypticism for creative inspiration, especially now that we're living closely to the train passengers' experience. Can we exit this dystopian train already? Alas, "Snowpiercer" & apocalyptic fare keep chugging along 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z While Sonny skewed toward the tormented and dour, Nash was upbeat and funny, quick with a snappy line. Don Johnson Is Back as ‘Nash Bridges.’ Why? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z She calls her dour employees "poets and geniuses." Girlboss, gratify, believe: Keeley of "Ted Lasso" takes control 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z As “-io” progresses, Fohr takes our dour times and turns those feelings inside out, finding triumph amid despondency, leaning heavily into her imagery of exploding stars and black holes. Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It was very professional, and it had a tune, and I was quite surprised because Boo was quite a dour character. Nick Hornby's favourite music – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-07-10T10:11:50Z The problem is that the dour Henry fancies himself a purist, and appears to draw parallels between his lack of commercial success and Converse’s willful obscurity — the system is rigged against artists, man! Review: A Lost Folk Musician’s Haunted Dreamland in ‘A Star Has Burnt My Eye’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z And the thought of what Stewart and the writers might do with this is invigorating, because in its opening episodes, "Picard" is anything but dour and pessimistic. "Star Trek: Picard" marks the engaging return of the Enterprise's greatest captain 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z This only adds to the dour mood music with political turmoil, looming potential government shutdown, and the weak 30-year auction yesterday. Moody's changes US ratings outlook to negative, affirms AAA 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Many voters still feel dour about the overall economy and there is an open question as to whether the UAW contract and signs of wages outpacing inflation can change their views. Biden goes to Illinois auto plant saved by union agreement, a sign his policies are helping workers 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z "Our increasingly early closing and family unfriendly licensing laws threaten to make us look dour compared to other European cities." London's night czar: 'Enjoy city nightlife as clocks go back' 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The turmoil in the House and the federal case against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, who is facing charges for bribery, show that both major parties are contributing to the dour outlook. Americans’ faith in institutions has been sliding for years. The chaos in Congress isn’t helping 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z European shares tumbled to a two-week low as dour earnings exacerbated risk-off sentiment driven by geopolitical worries and uncertainty over interest rates. Wall Street dips as U.S. Treasuries graze 5%, Middle East tensions simmer 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Even as the story shifts, and evidence of the damage humans have wrought becomes evident, the shots are nonetheless breathtaking — dour apartment blocks and garbage are rendered cinematic. The Las Vegas Sphere interior's first film is both mind-blowing and Disneyfied 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The dour mood is set to continue, with futures indicating a lower open in European markets. Morning Bid: Dollar strength keeps yen under pressure 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The dour outlook comes as the company grapples with the fallout from lawsuits related to its Combat Arms earplugs and water pollution claims tied to "forever chemicals". 3M warns of 'slow growth environment' in 2024, shares drop 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Roiled by an oil price spike and dour August business soundings, world markets struggled again on Wednesday as they assessed a messy disinflation picture that complicates prospects hopes for peak interest rates. AMERICAS Restive markets simmer after oil sideswipe 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z With dour bank earnings and soundings from the ailing property sector in the background, geopolitics also continues to jar. AMERICAS Rates dice, AI arms race and G20 snub 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z That helped European stocks buck the dour equity market mood of the past 24 hours, where Asia shares had followed Wall St's sharp tech-led reversal into the red on Thursday. Morning Bid: Dollar rockets as Powell trumps AI 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The future doesn’t have to be dour, block-long podium apartments; it can be sunlight and fresh air. A home, an office and a park demonstrate that design can be environmentally conscious — and look good 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The company's dour forecast, however, led analysts to raise questions about the continuing uncertainty in Hainan and Mainland China. Estee Lauder sees weak annual profit on slow recovery in Asia travel retail 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z After a slew of dour retail, industrial and property investment numbers earlier this week, China reported on Wednesday that home prices fell for the first time this year. Bonds calm down but Chinese markets smolder 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Rival Target, which reports results on Wednesday, in contrast expects a dour second-quarter and a drop in sales for its fiscal year. Walmart set to raise its full-year forecast as shoppers stick to essentials 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z After starting the year with dour warnings about the economy, many investors and analysts have changed their minds. Wall St. Pessimists Are Getting Used to Being Wrong 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The company posted a per share loss in the last quarter, dogged by a broader slowdown in the toy industry and an ongoing inventory adjustment by retailers after 2022's dour holiday season. Mattel bets on Barbie revival, posts surprise quarterly profit 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z While all of this talk of war is sobering, it would be a mistake to assume that "Oppenheimer" is entirely dour. Atomic truth: Unraveling the reality behind "Oppenheimer" and nuclear weapons 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z And yet it can also can feel relegated to one more dour item jockeying for position in the news diet of even the most conscientious citizen. Review: Agonizing and essential, '20 Days in Mariupol' shows us the war atrocities in Ukraine 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Conspicuous camera moves distract from rather than enhance the action, and a dour, foregrounded score adds an extra layer of weight. 'Full Circle' review: Soderbergh's style distracts in this new crime drama 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Lucid has been operating in a challenging environment as demand takes a hit from dour economic outlook and a price war sparked by Tesla in January. Lucid shares drop on flat second-quarter deliveries, production drop 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The White House in recent weeks has kicked off a series of events aimed to lift Americans' dour mood about the economy, touting what it calls the Democratic president's "Bidenomics" agenda. Biden's approval rating lingers at 40%, economy remains top worry -Reuters/Ipsos 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z "I think some people might have thought of dad as a dour Scot, he didn't show his humour openly," said Arran. The Scottish cartoonist behind 60 years of Fred Basset 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Adding to the dour mood in Asia was a selloff in Chinese banks, which have become the latest focal point for worry about the disappointing state of the world's second-biggest economy. Morning Bid: Battered bond market braces for payrolls 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Despite the dour attitudes toward their degrees, arts, humanities and social science graduates can have successful futures. Student Voices: The future may be STEM, but don’t leave liberal arts education behind 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z President Joe Biden will use what aides are billing as a major speech on Wednesday to lift Americans' dour mood about the economy, hoping to shore up his key political weakness as he seeks re-election. Biden tries to flip skeptical Americans on his economic plan 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Analysts said that together the moves showed official unease at the yuan's downward momentum and that they could slow but perhaps not halt a decline, given the dour economic outlook. China starts to slow yuan's one-way slide 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The fallout from last week's dour business readouts was that European firms were struggling more than U.S. counterparts this month. Morning Bid: World markets calm after Russia drama 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Asian stocks were steady and moves in the foreign exchange market were small - with little to shift last week's dour mood as the economic outlook darkens. Morning Bid: Markets take mutiny in their stride, for now 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The dour mood about the state’s direction had a partisan timbre as well, according to the poll. 4 in 10 California residents are considering packing up and leaving, new poll finds 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Despite that dour forecast, the Fed’s policymakers agreed last week to forgo a rate hike for the first time in 11 meetings dating back to March 2022. Powell to face Capitol Hill hearing at a time of rising uncertainty over Fed’s interest-rate plans 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Adding to the dour mood, China cut its benchmark lending rates by a smaller-than-expected 10 basis points. Futures fall as hawkish Fed, smaller China rate cut dent sentiment 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z For Ferguson, it’s about keeping his poise in high-pressure situations and avoiding the kind of ninth-inning meltdown that set a dour tone for the rest of the recent trip. Dodgers seek bullpen improvements, but not necessarily a designated closer 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z But Superman’s face was dour Saturday, even as he’d tied himself for history. Masters Meet: Gardena Serra's Brazil Neal sets state best at 200 meters 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z That being noted, much of postmodern theory was not itself pessimistic or dour. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z U.S. stock indexes closed down overnight, hamstrung by dour forecast from Home Depot and April U.S. retail sales data that underscored softer consumer spending. Asian shares tentative, US debt ceiling talks weigh on risk appetite 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Everything I read online that day in 2015 was so negative and dour that I ruled out autism as being part of my own spectrum. My so-called ‘disorder’ made me a better attorney 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Echoing dour comments by Munger, Mr. Buffett warned of a continued economic downturn, thanks to higher interest rates and lower consumer spending. Debt-Ceiling Déjà Vu Worries Wall Street 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z In the days and hours before the jury finally brought back a verdict in the Proud Boys trial, there was a dour mood in much of the coverage. Proud Boys verdict shows Americans want the ringleaders of January 6 to pay 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Everywhere, Calvinists set themselves apart by their plain dress and their dour outlook on merriment, celebrations, and the pleasures of the flesh. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, who helps oversee coronation arrangements, has argued that “people would not want a dour scrimping and scraping” at such a “marvelous moment in our history.” ‘Not my king’: UK republicans want coronation to be the last 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The stock fell almost 50 percent on Tuesday, following the dour profit update from the company on Monday. First Republic’s Shares Slide as Its Fate Remains Uncertain 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But “Always Running” is hardly nihilistic or dour. 'Always Running' is more than cholo lit — it's a manual for L.A.'s salvation 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Me, I’ve always thought that L.A. noir literature can pack more punch than even the crime stories of perpetually dour London, because here, the sunshine makes the shadows all the darker. 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Lower-income Americans are especially dour, even though their wages appear to be rising the fastest. Opinion | Why Americans are so pessimistic about their finances Others read the moves differently, arguing that investors ignore the more dour signal from the Treasury market at their peril, and that a recession is in fact on the way. ‘Bonkers’ Bond Trading May Be Sending a Grim Signal About the Economy 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The series becomes sillier as it becomes more serious, wending its way to a bizarrely cheerful conclusion — given the dour preceding hours — that shares only a fire with its literary antecedent. ‘Great Expectations’ review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Having sacked manager Rehanne Skinner after Sunday's loss at Liverpool, Spurs looked to be heading for a goalless draw in a dour contest at Brisbane Road before England produced a moment of quality. England stunner gives Spurs vital win over Leicester 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Seizing on the dour report, Republican lawmakers have pledged a return to austerity, even if they must bargain over the country’s credit to accomplish their aims. House GOP takes early swipes at Biden budget before fiscal showdown 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Instead of presiding mostly at ribbon-cuttings and street festivals, she went before the cameras again and again to impart dour news about death tolls, lockdowns and public health mandates. Opinion | Chicago’s mayoral race hinged on crime. What does that mean for policy? 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The mood was more dour in the morning after a report showed fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week for a third straight week. Stocks climb to send Wall Street to first gain in 3 days 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z He's a dour, withdrawn, cold automaton who many people who know him really can't stand. DeSantis is the second coming of Nixon 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Architects of last year’s law were dour about the prospect of the current Congress attempting anything on a similar scale. Bipartisan Plans to Move Aggressively on China Face Political Hurdles in Congress 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z And unfortunately, they’re usually livelier than the dour movie surrounding them. Review: David Harbour is one lovable dead guy in 'We Have a Ghost'; plus the artful 'Bruiser' 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z In their meeting, Mr. Pompeo said he felt the Chinese leader showed himself to be a dour communist with “dead eyes,” one who never smiled during their conversation. Pompeo’s memoir details dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward China 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The market for digital assets has suffered from dour sentiment over the last year, as investors shunned risky assets amid spiraling market volatility and worries of an upcoming recession. Coinbase swings to quarterly loss as crypto winter hits trading volumes 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Westbrook was happy after losses when he played well, dour after wins when he was ignored, and divisive in a locker room that was roiled by his tension. Plaschke: In signing Russell Westbrook, Clippers foolishly mirror the Lakers' mistake 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z His facial expressions would go from resting dour to absolutely delighted when he encountered one of his son’s teammates. Perspective | Anyone whose dad laced up their skates feels Alex Ovechkin’s loss 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The CBO delivered its estimate Wednesday along with a dour review of the federal budget, laying bare the difficult, long-term challenges that lawmakers face to address the country’s finances. U.S. faces possible default between July and September as deficit rises 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z We’ve painted a dour picture so far but there are upsides. Edmunds: What to know before towing with an electric pickup 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z He portrayed himself as a swashbuckling modernizer who was determined to steer Pakistan away from the dour Islamism of its previous military ruler, General Zia. Musharraf’s Legacy: A Conflicted Pakistan and a Bristling Military 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Their more dour mood flew in the face of some notable upgrades by banks in recent weeks. POLL Global 2023 economic view downgraded, at odds with market optimism 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z As they ride together, the normally dour Ove sighs, allows himself a rare smile and says: “This is living.” 'A Man Called Otto' features a cranky — but hurting — old man, just like Dad 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The dour, desaturated palette gives “Women Talking” an appropriate air of timelessness but also saps vitality and visual interest from a frame that is taken up with — what else? — women talking. Review | ‘Women Talking’: Political debate becomes declaration of independence 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Those soundings partly offset what has been a relentless week of dour U.S. economic news. A year in reverse 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Gary Moffat of Auburn, Calif., just turned what he calls “a dour 72.” Perspective | Spur-of-the-moment nicknames can last a lifetime 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Americans say it’s the worst time to buy a home in decades, many millennials fear they won’t be able to become homeowners, and home builders are dour. Opinion | ‘Soft landing’ is a terrible name for what’s coming 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The results are the latest in a series of dour reports from cybersecurity firms, whose business boomed during the pandemic but is now seeing a slowdown, making them a hot target for private equity buyouts. Crowdstrike Holdings warning sparks selloff in cybersecurity stocks 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Following England's dour goalless draw with the United States, manager Gareth Southgate made four changes for the crucial game against Wales. England 'step up' and show embarrassment of riches 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Brazil's World Cup match against Switzerland looked to be heading for a dour, goalless draw but the Manchester United player had other ideas. 'Best midfielder in world' - Casemiro an unlikely hero 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z However, the governor acknowledged the national landscape of the economy is dour. Youngkin aims for tax cuts in next budget plan while navigating potential recession 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z If not, a year bookended by a dour Six Nations campaign and three defeats from four in the autumn will loom into view. All Blacks spectacle proves as alluring as ever 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell on Wednesday as Target's dour sales forecast due to changing shopping pattern amid rising prices unleashed fresh worries for retailers heading into the crucial holiday season. Fed's Daly: top policy rate of 4.75%-5.25% 'reasonable' 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell on Wednesday as Target's dour sales forecast due to changing shopping pattern amid rising prices unleashed fresh worries for retailers heading into the crucial holiday season. S&P 500, Nasdaq fall as Target stokes fears of gloomy holiday season 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The trip to Germany also seemed to boost Brady, who had been in a dour mood all year as he went through a divorce after an offseason he partially spent retired. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 10: The Bills-Vikings epic stole the show 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The blue check marks used to designate who was, supposedly, “important” — and for Musk, that couldn’t be the dour media figures who spend their time writing nasty columns like this one. Opinion | Elon Musk can’t run Twitter if he’s still trying to win Twitter 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Given the dour, killjoy reputation the environmental movement is unfairly saddled with, that’s a generational achievement — and one that could prove a critical inflection point for big corporations and consumer behavior alike. Opinion | Elon Musk wanted to go Mars. Now he’s distracted by blue check marks. 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Viewers who can endure the at-times tediously dour first hour of “Next Exit” are rewarded with a tense and emotional final stretch, with a lot to say about what gives life meaning. Review: Millie Bobby Brown returns in 'Enola Holmes 2' and Daniel Radcliffe gets 'Weird' 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z With one eye on the U.S. employment report at the end of a dour week of rising interest rates, world markets were spurred by another slightly mysterious Chinese stock surge. Morning Bid: Laboring markets get China fillip 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Biden's poll ratings paint a dour picture of his first two years. US midterm elections: What has Joe Biden achieved so far and what awaits? 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The darkening economic skies responsible for the dour real sector earnings were still clear in downbeat U.S. consumer confidence and housing readings on Tuesday, and mounting recession fears have raised speculation about whether the U.S. Morning Bid: Consumer drain as banks gain 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z This, along with his dour view of cities, led to some funereal descriptions of Davis in the press, where he was dubbed L.A.'s “dark prophet” and the “poet laureate of pessimism.” Mike Davis, 'City of Quartz' author who chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Ono performed some of her music pieces in conjunction with the Cage concerts, but she was dour. Toshi Ichiyanagi, experimental composer who straddled cultures, dies at 89 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The dour outlook in the county of 15,000 has been propelled by the same forces at work in many other states. False election claims overwhelm local efforts to push back 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z While massive global star Johnson is clearly the box office draw, dramatic roles aren’t his forte, and that’s especially clear here as he delivers a dour and dark dramatic performance that’s lacking his natural charisma. Review: Style and great supporting players make 'Black Adam' forgettably entertaining 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Karunatilaka told the Booker website that "despite having a grim history and a troubled present, Sri Lanka is not a dour or depressing place". Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z It happened in Ann Arbor, Mich., last November, when Michigan finally took a brute solution to its Ohio State problem after going 2-17 through the dour new century. Analysis | Tennessee, TCU and Utah came back to win, and all that’s left are the tears 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z “Halloween Ends” has the feeling of dour obligation, and it’s clear that no one’s heart is really in this anymore, the limits of narrative possibility in Haddonfield stretched beyond their max. Review: Sweet relief. 'Halloween Ends.' For now. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “Halloween Ends” has the feeling of dour obligation, and it’s clear no one’s heart is really in this any more, the limits of narrative possibility in Haddonfield stretched beyond their max. ‘Halloween Ends’ review: This franchise is ready to be put out of its misery 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z She grabbed her chance when her dour husband allowed her to leave Vermont to take their asthmatic son West to visit her family for a spell. Review | Elsie who? At one time, millions read Elsie Robinson’s columns. 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A photographer captured an image of Biden, the woman and a man in a “Florida Cracker” T-shirt — all smiling — with DeSantis standing alone in the foreground, wearing a dour expression. Biden, DeSantis meet in Florida, pledging bipartisanship on Ian relief 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z And Republicans believe that voters blame the Democrats in power for the dour economic outlook. Democrats’ Troubles in Nevada Are a Microcosm of Nationwide Headwinds 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z On this dour afternoon, 59 days before the Americans return to the World Cup, “average” was more than generous. USMNT, sloppy and meek, falls to Japan in dreary World Cup tuneup 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z DeSantis, on the other hand, is a creepy, dour, unlikable jerk. Ron DeSantis' genius plan goes sideways: Is his 2024 campaign suddenly in trouble? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The texts she chose were “remarkably dour,” Malloy went on to explain, and they were not from the contemporary edition of the Book of Common Prayer, but from an older, more ornate printing. Hundreds gather for Joan Didion tribute Wednesday night 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Our “dour and censorious age,” she continues, has led to diversity initiatives that can only mean that a publisher “no longer regards the company’s raison d’etre as the acquisition and dissemination of good books.” Review | Lionel Shriver taunts the ‘culture police’ and more in her new book 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The dour outlook for Chinese banks comes as the world’s second-largest economy narrowly avoided contracting in the second quarter as widespread COVID-19 lockdowns and the slumping property sector badly damaged consumer and business confidence. China's top banks face narrowing margins as calls to help economy grow 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z U.S. stock indexes were on Thursday set to begin September on a dour note as weak factory activity surveys from Europe and Asia amplified fears of a global economic slowdown. Revisions confirm steep decline in U.S. productivity in second quarter 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z While expectations are not as dour as they were, there are doubts about how long the rally can last. Stocks are set for their best stretch of the year, as inflation fears recede. 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z And this dour urban path stands as evidence that it will take much more than a single public work to stitch the neighborhood back together. Beyond the 6th Street Viaduct media alarmism. Lessons from a week on the new bridge 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Many Americans feel dour about the economy even as their own finances have held up, a Times/Siena poll found. Salad Days 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The fastest inflation in four decades has Americans feeling dour about the economy, even as their own finances have, so far, held up relatively well. Voters See a Bad Economy, Even if They’re Doing OK 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Government bonds also continued to send a dour economic signal: The yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury notes rose to 2.99 percent on Thursday, but was still below the yield on two-year notes. Stocks fall further as bank earnings add to concerns about the economy. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z News outlets weren’t alone: Trust in most every type of institution fell, including churches, schools, banks and government, as the country entered an especially dour phase. Free Press roundup: Google ‘breakup’ offer, Americans’ trust in newspapers and more 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z His recent health challenges and dour expressions have fueled speculation of his bowing out, especially among enemies in the Vatican who hoped to see him go. For Francis, a Papacy Complicated by the Shadow of Resignation 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Until recently, there was little sign that consumers’ dour mood was affecting their spending much. Income and Spending Lag Behind Inflation, a Sign of Economic Fragility 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Sky-high gas prices, a tumbling stock market and mounting talk of a possible recession have put consumers in a dour mood. Income and spending rose less than prices in May. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Fed policymakers in recent days have set expectations for their second consecutive 75 basis point interest rate hike in July even as economic data painted a dour picture of the American consumer. Futures tumble on last day of a torrid first-half on growth fears 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Tour through mining companies’ head offices and you’ll see the dour visages of past directors — tough men with rows of august-looking medals pinned to their chests — glaring down from pictures hung in the hallways. ‘No one wants to risk getting trapped’: In war, dangers multiply for Ukraine's miners 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The dour mood is also reflected in other surveys. Pessimism about the economy is growing, a U.S. poll shows. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Japan has set a dour tone, showing factory growth at four-month lows and suppliers' delivery times continuing to lengthen. Morning Bid: What purchasing managers are saying 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z His results had been dour for him of late, most recently a missed cut at the Memorial in Ohio, and his media session Tuesday sounded something like therapy. Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa fight through the weird to begin U.S. Open 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z European and U.S. shares are looking at a dour session ahead and world stocks are at the lowest in three weeks. Morning Bid: Who wants to be a central banker? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z “We cleaned up with John Dean” but did “poorly” with dour former attorney general John Mitchell, said a spokeswoman for the PBS outlet in Miami. Before Jan. 6 hearings, most-watched political TV was Watergate probe 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z This is why his “Mission: Impossible” franchise — the latest trailer of which can be seen before “Top Gun: Maverick” — became so much more reliably entertaining than the dour, adamantly un-playful Bond movies featuring Daniel Craig. Perspective | The secret of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is that it doesn’t try too hard 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z His profile pictures were selfies, him holding up his shirt or looking dour in front of a broken mirror. Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z China shares dropped 2% weighing on Asian markets, while U.S. stock futures declined sharply as more dour corporate results evidenced the hit from surging inflation and slowing growth. European shares join global selloff on growth worries 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Analysts say the dour mood among stock investors isn’t likely to change until they get a handle on when the Fed will slow the rate increases. Wall Street edges lower, with the S&P 500 hovering above bear market territory. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z But there were issues with injuries and questions about his vaccination status, and the team’s failure to reach the AFC playoffs made for a decidedly dour mood at season’s end. Analysis | The 15 can’t-miss games on the 2022 NFL schedule 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Instead, we all too often lean directly into the worst stereotypes of progressives as dour scolds who can't even take a joke. The GOP's prudery is unpopular, to fight back, the left has to scold less and talk about joy more 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z What could have been a dour moment morphed into an entirely magical one. All Enchiladas Are Perfect. But These Are My Favorite. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Investors are worried that the dour economic news could influence future rate hikes, which is also rattling markets. Markets tank over new questions about where the economy is heading 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Kemp, usually buttoned up and almost dour in public appearances, has been loose during the tour, laughing, flashing big toothy grins and joking with supporters. Kemp’s Georgia bill-signing tour aims to end Perdue’s hopes 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Ljubljana, the capital, went from a drab and frankly dour city that wasn’t very easy to access to a place you’d like to visit. Opinion | The biggest win for liberal democracy this week wasn’t France’s election 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z After Monday’s reprieve, the session marked a swift return to the dour mood that has largely prevailed over Wall Street this month. Dow slumps more than 800 points as April losses mount 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The acquisition “provides a little more confidence in certain deals being consummated despite the dour market environment we’re in,” Wicker said. Dow erases massive deficit, closes more than 200 points higher 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Asked whether the dour finish that took him from 6 under to 4 under might rattle his brain through the evening, the 28-year-old said, “No, I’m done with it, mate.” At a Masters of Tiger Woods and 89 others, the 89 show their glistening talent 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s hard to be dour for long on the boat, as the scientists keep scanning for dolphins. Dolphins’ playful social habits form bonds, but spread virus 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The demand for workers is yielding strong wage growth, but price increases are casting a dour shadow. Strong Job Gains in March Keep a Flame Under the Recovery 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Consumer spending remains buoyant, yet surveys reflect dour economic sentiment among the public. ‘I’m in Hot Demand, Baby’: Nebraska Thrives (and Copes) With Low Unemployment 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The dour Arkansas Republican announced with indignation at this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings that he doesn’t want a justice who follows the “views of the legal elite.” Opinion | Ivy League Republicans’ phony rebellion against the ‘elites’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The government has responded to the ratings agency downgrades and dour analyses with a mix of indignation, disbelief and denial, initially resisting calls to seek help from the International Monetary Fund. Sri Lanka Economy Has ‘Hit Rock Bottom,’ Putting Pressure on President 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z She knew every senior official, mentored many of them and managed to say a cheery word even to people who took “dour” as a compliment. Opinion | Madeleine Albright shaped a generation of foreign policy leaders 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z To be sure, signs of rampant pessimism – such as high cash levels and dour sentiment -- are often seen as contrarian indicators that are positive for equities. After sizzling rebound, investors weigh whether stocks have more bounce 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Or perhaps even to Putin himself, who in contrast, comes off as a dour, scolding uncle from another age. Waging war, wielding words: Zelensky's speeches have made him a folk hero 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z |
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