| 单词 | lugubrious |
| 例句 | The other potters seemed to slump as one into dejection, all but abandoning their work in favor of long, lugubrious visits to the wine shop, where they commiserated with one another. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He walked out; and the others followed him with lugubrious mien. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Negroes, it seems, preferred more contemporary music and turned up their transistor radios loudly and defiantly whenever Myma began one of her lugubrious dirges. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the lugubrious face of one who simply refuses to be consoled. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They watched the peacock walk out of the shadow of a tree, then its lugubrious flight up to its favorite perch on the roof, where it stood and surveyed the decayed kingdom below. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One time he gave a lengthy tour to a tall, stoop-shouldered man with a lugubrious expression on his long face, whom Lawrence introduced with unusual deference as “Dr. Nicholas Baker.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It’s amusing at the beginning when Manny the Mammoth, speaking in the lugubrious tones of Mr. Romano, rolls his family’s traditional holiday centerpiece — the Christmas rock — into position. Television Review: ?Jingle All the Way,? ?The Elf on the Shelf,? and More Christmas Cartoons - Television Review 2011-11-23T15:46:02Z “Dark Shadows” isn’t among Mr. Burton’s most richly realized works, but it’s very enjoyable, visually sumptuous and, despite its lugubrious source material and a sporadic tremor of violence, surprisingly effervescent. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in Tim Burton?s ?Dark Shadows? 2012-05-10T12:00:01Z At first, Chan’s novel moves at a lugubrious pace; there are many pages detailing Nga-Yee’s miserable family history before we get to the tragedy that triggers the plot. A Coke-Snorting Oligarch, a Gangrenous Finger and Other Noir Delights 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The White Dove is a lugubrious murder ballad, which Gourlay animated with haunting finesse. Hall?/Mark Elder/Andrew Gourlay ? review 2010-12-05T22:01:00Z Unfortunately, Madigan’s plodding pacing is a persistent drag, while her tonally inconsistent performers, who run the gamut from the farcical to the lugubrious, sometimes seem to be jobbing in from different plays. Inconsistent tone, uneven direction plague 'Off the King's Road' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z But the musical, based on a short story by Lesléa Newman and directed by David Schechter, is too lugubrious to be really moving. Theater Review: ‘A Letter to Harvey Milk’ at Pershing Square Signature Center 2012-07-27T21:36:40Z His works demonstrate a lugubrious fascination with human suffering and society’s underbelly. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The pop songs might be more lugubrious than the urban-radio fare. Review: Nicki Minaj Reinvents Herself on Personal The Pinkprint 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z There is connective tissue, and the riff does make sense, but at first you groan, for her dropping a lugubrious Austrian philosopher into the middle of a scene that derives its power from the quotidian. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z If they wanted to field only endless lugubrious ballads – and they did – that was fine. Tom Ewing 2010-05-27T21:44:00Z Such a lugubrious observation is hardly inappropriate, given that the former castle of Count Spork is now a 400-patient nursing home. ‘Harlequin’s Millions,’ by Bohumil Hrabal Eddy routinely mocked and neglected Saffy and instead went clubbing with Pats, a tall, thin and lugubrious fashion-magazine editor whose capacity for no food and lots of drugs and drink made Keith Richards look abstemious. Television Review: ?Absolutely Fabulous? 20th Anniversary Specials - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:52Z For Mr. Brooks, this exploration of fluidity — lugubrious, ponderous — offered little in the way of a change of course. Review: Brooks Moving Company Hews to Safe Uniformity 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z And the whole first movement that followed was taken at a pace so slow it was downright lugubrious, sometimes verging on the bathetic. Royal Concertgebouw makes a mark with the overfamiliar in D.C. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The novel is recounted as a journal, and the series intermittently delivers moments of autobiographical voice-over that never veer to the lugubrious. | ?Any Human Heart?: A Long Life That Peaks Quite Young 2011-02-11T23:18:14Z Yes, my passion for the music had become an obsession, and to such an extent that my parents could no longer tolerate the lugubrious basslines and vocal pleas rattling their nerves each night. Closer to Curtis 2010-05-18T11:25:00Z New single Wires is slow, lugubrious and designed for depressive teens as a gateway to harder, darker, more metallic/industrial and angsty stuff. New band of the day – The Neighbourhood (No 1,392) 2012-11-09T17:13:02Z Part of the problem: the generally lugubrious choice of musical material. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z And he quotes the Queen Mother describing T. S. Eliot as “this rather lugubrious man in a suit” who “read a poem,” adding, “I think it was called ‘The Desert.’ ” Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z If the point was to filter the chords through a contemporary prism, it did not work, at least in these shaky, lugubrious performances. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z The main theme, a somewhat lugubrious waltz, undergoes multiple transformations every time it returns. New York Philharmonic With Guest Violinist and Conductor 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Though it was deftly and sensitively played by Adam Nielsen, the results could feel monochromatic and lugubrious. Music Review: Juilliard Opera’s ‘Curlew River’ and ‘Riders to the Sea’ 2012-12-10T22:47:15Z In a way, the occasionally lugubrious undertones and casual cruelties suit the setting, but the tragic heft Mr. Martinez seems to be pushing for doesn’t materialize. ‘Viktor’ Stars Gérard Depardieu and Elizabeth Hurley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Its unconvincing love triangle has to compete with a tangle of other lugubrious threads: the nuclear gamesmanship between the United States and Soviet Union; the posturing and pageantry of the international chess scene. Review | ‘Chess’ has the best cast of any musical this season. But the show itself has issues. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Undoubtedly the most lugubrious show of the week was the Valentine’s Day extravaganza that Moncler Grenoble held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Check Out That Dude 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The “Op-Ed style,” as it came to be known, was characterized by black and white crosshatching and moody imagery, which some Times editors called lugubrious. Jean-Claude Suares, Daring Illustrator of The Times’s Op-Ed Page, Dies at 71 2013-08-05T23:35:35Z Much of it carried a lugubrious streak, such as the themes heard in the equally lugubrious biopic "Chaplin." 'Bond' theme writer John Barry dead at 77 2011-01-31T19:16:00Z You’d have good reason to question my sanity If I leashed up a lugubrious manatee. Style Invitational Week 1238: D-E-F Comedy Jam 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Candy Walls, too, is heavy on atmospherics and metaphorical dry ice, positing Alfons, the lugubrious and lonely Canuck, as a digital Leonard Cohen. New band of the day: Trust (No 1,369) 2012-10-10T16:44:58Z Bernstein is not above milking pathos: The second movement’s funeral march unfolds with lugubrious viscosity. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The moral is in the fourth frame, as Charlie continues his lugubrious shuffle: “Then you discover you can’t even kick good.” Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Me, evidently, along with other relics of that era and longtime “Dark Shadows” fans who’ve been waiting — and waiting, and waiting — for Barnabas Collins to be exhumed yet again, along with his lugubrious extended family. Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z Releasing twin albums a year apart might seem like excessive prevarication, but in the context of Earth's lugubrious pace, that's practically a simultaneous release. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II ? review 2012-02-09T22:59:00Z Sure, goodbye is sad, but then again—as he said in sheepishly acknowledging the effusive, lugubrious praise of the past weeks—”Save a little for my funeral.” David Letterman Leaves Us, Laughing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In one sublime sequence, included on the "Exile" DVD, a lugubrious Richards makes a slurred and unsuccessful attempt to order a bowl of fruit from a woman in a Southern hotel. The Rolling Stones' forbidden documentary 2010-05-22T18:01:00Z In less able hands this conversation turns lugubrious and contrived. Maile Meloy reads at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co. 2010-07-01T20:39:00Z The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z For in just about every way, the Tony Awards was a fresher, funnier, whimsically weirder and just all-around more entertaining event than the fairly lugubrious Academy Award ceremony that Franco presided over. Oscars, take note: Tony ceremony was a fun shindig 2011-06-13T19:08:05Z I could listen to Tom Petty for ever: he's got such a wonderful, laconic lugubrious southern way of talking. TV review: Mr Blue Sky – The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO (BBC4) 2012-10-06T05:00:01Z But what’s really most ridiculous about “Batman v Superman” is its lugubrious solemnity and generic philosophizing. ‘Deadpool’ Isn’t the Only Solution. But ‘Batman v Superman’ Is the Problem 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Structured in five continuous movements, the concerto begins with a hushed, almost lugubrious yet intense choralelike theme in the low register of the piano. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z Such windy philosophical musings lend this novel a decidedly lugubrious tone and hobble the story of Fan’s search for Reg. Books of The Times: ‘On Such a Full Sea,’ Chang-rae Lee’s Tale of Dystopia 2014-01-13T20:24:34Z The evening opened with Haydn’s last-ever symphony, number 104 in D Major, in a performance that had the lugubrious intensity that often marks Eschenbach’s rhetoric, an audible effort to say something important. A maverick soloist offers a classic new work 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In The Rings of Saturn, he leaps from Suffolk to slavery in the Belgian Congo, while touching on the lugubrious history of herring fishing and the dismal lives of silkworms. WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia 2011-01-25T21:31:00Z Spanish lists are dominated by Javier Marías, lugubrious to some and monumentally beautiful to others. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Turner, 40, wrote his first song at age 2: a hilariously lugubrious two-note piano ditty, “There Was a Tow-Truck in the Desert,” which he played for salon attendees. Wolves, storms and bluegrass: an afternoon with Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Commissioning Club 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The ballroom scene, with its crimson draperies and lugubrious manners, recalls the grandiloquent gothic style of Corman's Masque of the Red Death, and serves, very effectively, to embody the oppressively conformist society Shakespeare portrayed. English National Ballet: Romeo and Juliette ? review 2011-01-06T22:01:00Z That bravura gesture marked a rare bit of genuine excitement on a night when there were few surprises and the tone was low-key to the point of lugubrious. Perspective | The 2021 Oscars, like the year they celebrated, were destined to be the most anticlimactic ever 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Though lugubrious, her Odette was also fierce in her resistance to impossible love, whacking Siegfried’s hand away when he tried to embrace her. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Met Opera House 2012-06-26T21:12:40Z To fully appreciate this fact required revisiting the collection in slide-show form, because seen in a live runway presentation, it was bogged down under the inevitably lugubrious styling and became a blur. Fashion Review: Armani Targets a New Generation of Customers 2010-06-21T18:50:00Z But he’s accompanied by a lugubrious flute melody, and there’s no joy in his weary voice. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Peel was never one for hype or eulogy, but somewhere within the lugubrious voice and deadpan delivery, I thought I heard a little note of excitement and perhaps even an adjective of praise. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z Putting his shoulder to the wheel, Jackson pushes the lugubrious plot uphill with sporting deliberation. 'The Samaritan': Cons of this grim caper outweigh the pros 2012-05-31T20:15:06Z People put a pendulum clock on every mantelpiece; they are wrong; what a lugubrious fashion. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z Her Mrs. Alving, for which she won an Olivier Award in London, is no lugubrious relic. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Truesdell talked with Salon about his lugubrious little film, which starts pretty chipper but ends up being kinda warped. “Cleveland, it’s your time”: Flash back to the city’s 1986 tragic attempt to break a worl... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z There is something still lugubrious and overwrought about “True Detective,” but there’s also a mesmerizing style to it — it’s imperfect, but well made. ‘True Detective’ Season 2: New cast, setting, same grim self-seriousness 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The result isn’t lugubrious on the album, and it isn’t in performance, either. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Serious Soviet music brought together Tchaikovsky’s lugubrious Romanticism, Pioneer marches, a little Beethoven, folk song strains, tunelets. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Critics slammed it as lifeless and lugubrious, and the box office was a dismal $20.6 million. Baz Luhrmann takes on challenging classic with 'The Great Gatsby' 2013-05-06T20:22:20Z Smith's deadpan style, along with his lugubrious manner and large build, quickly established him as one of the country's favourite television performers in the early 1980s. Mel Smith remembered: 'A gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit' 2013-07-20T19:59:16Z The lugubrious nickname conjured mildewed arcana, a forgotten department two miles from the Burbank studio where paper went to die. Inside the windowless bunker where Disney stores its 'secret weapon' 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The badness tends to be a different kind of badness — slow, earnest, lugubrious prose, or too-clever and self-conscious prose — but bad it nonetheless is. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z A sense of lives doomed to struggle and disappointment pervades the writing without dragging it into lugubrious or melodramatic territory. Books of The Times: ?We the Animals,? by Justin Torres - Review 2011-09-01T22:00:18Z Perhaps the ecclesiastical atmospherics Mr. Iannone conjured up were a mite lugubrious for a debut. Milan Is Still Making It New 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Beyond the lugubrious pageantry, there is no sign of emotional or spiritual life in the film, only windy posturing. | 'There Be Dragons': A Guess-the-Flavoring Game, and Then Along Comes a War 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z A generation charmed by the lugubrious—once in O’Neill, Dreiser, and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks—is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts. Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The lugubrious Ukrainian, for instance, has come from Kiev with his own bottle of vodka in case the local Tusker beer isn't sufficiently potent. Ten Cities, a million tunes 2013-07-07T18:00:02Z Aware of how both characters suited his musically lugubrious voice – and were loved by viewers – Sallis was happy to play Clegg for 37 years and Wallace for 15. Peter Sallis: veteran actor with charm, presence and an unmistakable voice 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z He has a wonderfully lugubrious face, made for playing disappointed people. Adeel Akhtar: ‘I thought, Ah, there is a power to this’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Between long silences he says, in a slow, lugubrious Welsh accent, "What a dump!" and, "It's filled with death" and, "Take him to the mines!" Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z He stops, and repeats with a lugubrious chortle, “yeah, a little bit of traveling.” Television: ?Locked Up Abroad? and Other Scary Travel Shows 2010-05-08T03:06:00Z The book is cool and light and pleasurable to read, while the show’s dreaminess felt heavy and lugubrious to me. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The film's philosophical inquiry is intriguing, but with its hushed tones, protracted close-ups and lugubrious atmosphere, "The Scientist" takes itself too seriously while skimping on simple entertainment value. 'The Scientist': big ambitions, little insight in philosophical film 2010-04-22T21:14:00Z “Europa” is such a lugubrious bore that I haven’t revisited it to check on the friendly Nazi rap; there’s something about a bad von Trier movie that resists repeat viewings. Arts & Leisure: Conflicting Voices in Lars von Trier?s Words and Works 2011-09-21T16:24:21Z The Philharmonic played the suite with confident agility, and under Mr. Robertson’s characteristically alert, spirited direction, sections that could have been lugubrious stayed light on their toes. Review: Planets, Tubas and Febrile Strings With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Audiences were sold a sci-fi with George Clooney and were baffled by what seemed to be a lugubrious and elusive tone. What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z An implacable flood of molasses-paced movies that slavishly copy Blade Runner 2049’s lugubrious pacing with none of the artistic or intellectual flair. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Distracted from both the lugubrious scenario and a collection assembled, in part, from scraps of fabrics and 1950s deadstock, I began scrolling through my feed. Gucci’s Alessandro Michele on His Job Prospects 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Already the pacing of the film is portentous, lugubrious—how about just “slow.” Jeff Nichols’s “Loving”: An Airbrushed Portrait of the Interracial Couple Whose Struggle Changed History 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A third ingredient is an occasional shift in tone to a lugubrious emotionalism reminiscent of “House M.D.,” whose creator, David Shore, is an executive producer of this show. Review: ‘Houdini & Doyle,’ Another Crime-Solving Pair 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The story is as sleek as its limo is symbolically lugubrious. ‘Cosmopolis,’ Directed by David Cronenberg 2012-08-16T21:29:47Z The lugubrious pacing changed the song, making its heroic aspirations seem elusive, if not delusional. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z In its place we got a sound that was often almost lugubrious, a lot of oddly murky textures, and heavy, heavy playing from the NSO’s soloists. Conductor Juraj Valcuha takes NSO program to a near-slog 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Despite that, the first single, “Waiting All Night,” is excellent, with a lugubrious, lo-fi sheen that floats on deep-space bass notes, brightened with acoustic guitar strums. REVIEW: Phish Keeps Things Fresh With Fuego 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z In black-clad frontman Matt Berninger, they have a singer with a glorious, lugubrious voice, and in the band, a force sharp and sensitive enough to pull back and let him do his thing without interruption. Pulp storm Reading festival 2011 2011-08-28T11:37:21Z The show’s dark wit keeps it from being too lugubrious, even as it covers multiple murders, but the real crown jewel here is the sound design. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘All in With Cam Newton,’ ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Southland’ 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z After two lugubrious episodes of “The Leftovers,” we’ve seen two endings featuring the exact same scenario: a tortured character finds solace in a spontaneous act of violence. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z But the main shortcoming is that lumpy first act, slowed down by misfiring quips, lugubrious repartee and sluggish plot devices. Review: 'Gypsy King' has some princely moments, but some poor ones, too 2010-03-22T21:03:00Z Still, this was largely a lugubrious, tone-deaf pageant of the walking dead, played out against leafy green wallpaper and tatty wood-grain veneer. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z The opening evocation of "mist, mizzle and mud" is not only lugubrious scene‑setting for an 18th-century saga, but a fairly accurate weather report. Rogue Herries – review 2013-03-27T18:19:40Z “Funeral Song” begins in an atmosphere of lugubrious expectation, with harmonies hovering like coastal mist. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z From the book’s grab-bag of themes and feelings, the film latched onto predestination and sorrow and got more lugubrious as it went along. ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The saloon-set first act was curiously lugubrious, Puccini's masterful use of orchestral colour in setting the scene not entirely apparent. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z Maybe the same stuff with which the bartenders are spiking the rotgut in George C. Wolfe’s current Broadway revival of “The Iceman Cometh,” another lugubrious O’Neill masterpiece. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z On his own, then, Wright’s output ranged from “gruesome/lugubrious/coercive,” in the words of one eminent critic, to a handful of jaw-dropping masterpieces. Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z With their mix of the lugubrious and the festive, the paintings in "Ambiguous," Jeff "Weirdo" Jacobson's new show at Vermillion, affect their viewers in a most unusual way. Painter Jeff "Weirdo" Jacobson: candy-colored triangles peppering the gloom 2012-06-28T20:47:09Z He also has the gift of embodying his kaleidoscope of theses without need for lugubrious lecturing. Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z In New Orleans, the air is dark, the mood lugubrious. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The second movement, marked “lugubrious and sad,” is thick with ruminative melodic lines and heaving harmonies. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Soon there's a song called My Blood, a lugubrious piano ballad whose conventionality is unconvincingly masked by the odd tribal drum feint. Haim; Ellie Goulding – review 2012-09-29T23:05:37Z Then Oscar starts intoning – and it is intoning, not singing - like a particularly lugubrious Leonard Cohen discussing suicide tips with Morrissey. New band of the day: Oscar (No 1,498) 2013-04-23T16:13:05Z Herbert Lom had a handsomely lugubrious look that was suited to comedy, horror and everything in between. Pink Panther Actor Herbert Lom Dead at 95 2012-09-27T16:17:21Z And there we were, my 13-year-old and I, looking at each other as the lugubrious issue of Old World religion shambled forth. Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters 2013-04-17T16:26:43Z The aerial routine in which the lovers literally become as high as kites leads to a painful hangover accompanied by a lugubrious Nick Cave ballad. Tristan and Yseult – review 2013-06-24T17:06:35Z At once lugubrious and nutty, depressing and daring, “The Attachment Diaries” unfolds, for the first hour or so, in the softest black and white. ‘The Attachment Diaries’ Review: Love, Sick 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z One highlight of the theme was Massimiliano Giornetti’s show for Ferragamo, where the designer, a spotty performer who in the past has lapsed into lugubrious styling and demonstrated a curious color sense, hit stride. Fashion Review: The Theater of an Italian Summer 2011-06-22T20:21:31Z Ms. Clare’s characters are tougher and wittier than the lugubrious Bella and Edward of “Twilight” fame, and her female protagonists are smart and sassy. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z We like to think that putting men in touch with their more lugubrious side is some sort of emotional innovation, a sign of progress. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It's a collection of slight but insistent, lugubrious voices, circling round the burgeoningly gay body of the young Williams. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Over a period of more than 30 years, he has returned again and again to certain lugubrious and exacting English themes: suburban conventions, coming-of-age anxieties and the enigmas of bourgeois love. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z By this point, Summer was America's undisputed disco queen, so this version of the lugubrious ballad made famous by Richard Harris was a brave diversion. Remember Donna Summer: listen now to five classic songs 2012-05-17T20:33:10Z Spall is an abundantly talented actor, clearly, but he's wildly out of place among the aristoprats of densest Wodehouse-ian Shropshire; a lugubrious snail lost, blinking, in a swarm of fidgety stick insects. Blandings is just the ticket, by jove 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z That amusingly lugubrious cello anchors the high anguish of “Later” in “Now/Later/Soon” from “A Little Night Music.” Instrumental to Signature’s success, orchestra shines in Sondheim revue 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Michael Stipe, loose with whiskey, was in the mood to offer his friends in the cult Brooklyn band, whose records tend to the lugubrious and melancholy, some advice. The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z The compelling third movement begins ominously, with a seemingly lugubrious passacaglia, the theme played low and haltingly by a tuba. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Midway through “Exeo,” the strings muster for sustained lines that writhe and lash against an undertow of lugubrious brasses. Classical Recordings: Pascal Dusapin?s Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-05-13T14:41:00Z These efforts may be the last, ironically cheerful gasp of the postwar period’s often lugubrious Existential figuration — at its best in Jean Dubuffet’s work, which Mr. Hockney admired. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Its themes haunted him: the miraculous wresting away of the golden bough; Charon’s lugubrious barge; Aeneas’s quest to meet the shade of his talkative father, Anchises, by descending into the underworld. Music from the underworld 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Liversidge writes witty proposals for artworks that will never be made, collects homemade signs, and composes lugubrious remarks about the human condition. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z One reviewer described it as a “portentous and lugubrious revision ... the dreariest story ever told”. Faith films challenge Hollywood at box office 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z A lugubrious detective laments official ineptitude in missing-child cases, and a volunteer search group is contacted. Review: In ‘Loveless,’ a Broken Family and a Lost Nation 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z This is very grownup relationship rock that might seem a little lugubrious and repetitive to unaligned outsiders. The National – review 2013-06-28T14:35:48Z For now, however, her establishment was a lonely trailblazer amid the familiar tableau: the dusty grid, the neglected oblong park, restaurants full of lugubrious men bent on vodka-toasting oblivion. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z The mayor, 43, recalled visiting the pyramid as a schoolboy soon after it opened in 1988 as a lugubrious memorial to Mr. Hoxha. Despised Dictator’s ‘Scary’ Shrine Becomes a Bet on Albania’s Future 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z At a lugubrious black-tie dinner preceding the event, I sat next to a former MP who asked me two questions I had never been asked before in succession. Quit fawning over the royals: The British monarchy is a tool of class war and white supremacy 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Welcome to “The Batman,” yet another lugubrious, laboriously grim slog masquerading as a fun comic book movie. Review | In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z However, its running time of 2hr 30 has not appealed to all, with the New Yorker commenting: "The overdone décor and the overcooked acting serve merely as glitzy distractions from the tale's lugubrious sprawl." Cate Blanchett: I dressed up as my daughter's teacher in lockdown 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z This, though, can be dull stuff, one lugubrious section after another, as the “Vigil” comes across on many an uninspired recording. Review: The L.A. Master Chorale is back with Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z It was heavy, enchantingly in lock step with the smoky winter day outside, but not lugubrious. The Fragrances That Changed the Field 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Hollywood is now focused on worthy, relevant, socially conscious and lugubrious. Opinion | Crushed Dream Factory 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, McConnell's lugubrious paean to Senatorial comity as he held the Senate hostage demanding that Democrats agree not to eliminate the filibuster is a monument to shameless hypocrisy, as Fallows also demonstrates: Why Senate Republicans are still playing defense for Donald Trump 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z With his hangdog expression and lugubrious delivery, Geoffrey Palmer was one of the best-known actors of his generation. Obituary: Geoffrey Palmer 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Her best-known creation was Martin Beck, the subject of a massively popular series about a Swedish homicide detective in mournful middle age, lugubrious and ill-tempered. Maj Sjöwall, master of Nordic noir, dies at 84 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z I have to say that the praise heaped on the lugubrious “Irishman” is the more bewildering when one realizes how close “Ozark” has come to being the great American novel of this moment. Quarantined film critic David Thomson loves 'Ozark,' sours on 'Paris, Texas' 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z For Mr. von Sydow, the film begot decades of typecasting in Hollywood, where he played stern men of the cloth as well as lugubrious villains. Max von Sydow, brooding star of Ingmar Bergman’s torment-ridden dramas, dies at 90 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Born in Nebraska and now in his early 60s, this lugubrious, crumpled, owlish man has “won at the game of academia”, said Candida Moss, professor of theology at Birmingham University. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z What should be soaring is instead lugubrious; what should be a ripping good yarn is instead dutiful and a little bit dull. Review | Timothée Chalamet stars in ‘The King,’ a handsome if dull take on English history 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The taxi driver on the morning run to Sofia airport was lugubrious, middle-aged and wearing an England football shirt. Paltry fines and spineless words helped create the scenes in Sofia | Barney Ronay 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z As MPs re-entered the chamber on 25 September, the only trace of the prorogation was the imprint of its lugubrious syllables in our minds. Cancelled for sadfishing: the top 10 words of 2019 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z So they will read a lugubrious report, word-for-word — sometimes to an audience of five, sometimes to a full house — through the day and into the night. How the Mueller report became a live-theater summer sensation 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Yet almost from the first shot, it seemed wrong: Populated by a mere handful of undifferentiated characters, lugubrious, mild, remote … unfunny. The botched new ‘Catch-22’ adaptation reminds us that some novels are unfilmable 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z At the time a colonel in his mid-30s, Barksdale, a bald, bearish man with a lugubrious manner, grew up in a rough section of West Baltimore. The Tragedy of Baltimore 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Across those albums she revealed a voice of lugubrious beauty, and made an art form of songs that were emotionally and musically raw. Sharon Van Etten: ‘The more I let go, the more I progress as a human being’ 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z “Aquaman” weighs in somewhere between the lugubrious “Justice League” and the less leaden “Wonder Woman” on the uneven scales of recent DC films. Film Review: Jason Momoa swims but ‘Aquaman’ sinks 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z It had been assembled by the editors of Gourmet and was punctuated by the splendid, reverent, slightly lugubrious photographs of food that the magazine was famous for. My Cookbook Crushes, by Nora Ephron 2006-02-06T05:00:00Z The movie sags under the weight of it all, with Stallone’s mopey speeches taking on lugubrious repetitiveness, and the plot machinations setting up Adonis as an underdog becoming increasingly painful to watch. Review | ‘Creed II’ isn’t as great as the original, but it gets the job done 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But those more hopeful tunes don’t really save this offering from its lugubrious tone. Review: Streisand’s ‘Walls’ strikes strident anti-Trump tone 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z This is uncommonly weighty, lugubrious subject matter for a genre picture, and those who miss Guadagnino’s signature sensuality may also chafe at his insistence on intellectualizing his movie’s demons. Review: Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' remake casts a powerfully brutal, sorrowful spell - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Yet critics point to lugubrious progress, with Japan ranking 114th of 144 countries in the World Economic Forum’s global gender equality rankings. Shinzo Abe Gets One Step Closer to Becoming Japan’s Longest-Serving Premier 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z As Elizabeth Kolbert wrote for the occasion, “It would be hard to think of a more lugubrious milestone.” How Climate Change Contributed to This Summer’s Wildfires 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Even Bush's ballads don't sound lugubrious: Unfettered by sonic gravity or pop conventions, she exudes exquisite grace as she unburdens herself. Kate Bush at 60: An exquisite pop genius whose influence endures 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of Hansen’s testimony, and it would be hard to think of a more lugubrious milestone. Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The Dennys had been a successful farming family of exceptional industry, building farms in Indiana and Illinois before catching the “Oregon Itch” for the warmer and more lugubrious winters promised in the Willamette Valley. A memorable home base for the father of Seattle’s founders 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Today, after a century of lugubrious “international relations”, the only aspect of this principle we still remember is the one most familiar to us: national independence. The demise of the nation state 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Less than a decade ago, e-bikes struggled with lugubrious handling and motors that would kick in with a jolt. A Tesla Too Pricey? E-Bikes Offer Entry-Level Electric Transportation 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Their anxiety may illustrate another obstacle in the fight against deflation: the lugubrious disposition of many Japanese. What five years of Abenomics has and has not achieved 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The brooding tone of the movie grows more and more downbeat until, by the end, it’s downright lugubrious. ‘All I See is You’ review: Marital drama jarringly shifts views 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s not the only example of the film’s deadpan-prankster sensibility, as if Lowery and his two leads were trying to keep their experiment from becoming too lugubrious. Casey Affleck goes under the sheet in David Lowery's haunting, melancholy 'A Ghost Story' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In fact, the only way to tell river from field was to stare at the river and sense its lugubrious vector. “Crossing the River No Name” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z She wrote: "Its tone is uniformly lugubrious and maudlin, and Hawkins' characters seldom rise to the level of two dimensions, let alone three." Paula Hawkins' new novel Into The Water confuses critics - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The lugubrious man in charge of the shoot did not look impressed. “Signal” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z In the interests of full disclosure, I need to state upfront that the check-in process is both lugubrious and more than slightly irritating. TRAVEL: Williamsburg, Virginia, offers craft beer and whiskey, oyster trail, food and relaxation 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z He put punch lines into some of his most lugubrious songs. My Friend Leonard Cohen: Darkness and Praise 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The singer's lugubrious, gravelly delivery was the perfect vehicle for his poetry, but fellow musicians often uncovered melodies and meanings obscured by Cohen's originals. Six of the best Leonard Cohen covers - BBC News 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z There are jokes in Sokurov, but they tend to be lugubrious, muffled in the drapery of the past. In “Batman v Superman,” Nobody Wins 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Tonally, it's all over the place — an editing-booth scene with Frances McDormand packs in wacky Looney Tunes sound effects, while Michael Gambon's lugubrious but goofy narration takes an entirely different tack. Hail, Caesar! is an overcrowded ode to Old Hollywood 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It is the difference between the “fairer” but more lugubrious European economies and our riskier but more dynamic way of doing business. The Democrats Stumble Toward 50 Shades of Socialism 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “By the Sea” has been called languid and lugubrious, portentous and pretentious, and it is, but look past those claims. The year in guilty-pleasure movies: The most delightful flops and worst trainwrecks of the year 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But credit where credit is due: At least Coulter doesn’t engage in the lugubrious whining of Rush Limbaugh, who somehow managed to turn San Bernardino into an attack on conservatives. Donald Trump is making Ann Coulter irrelevant: Why the rise of American fascism has rendered far-right pundits obsolete 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z James Agee and Walker Evans’s lugubrious book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” is one of the most enduring examples of this tradition. How the South Won the Civil War 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z A lugubrious cloud of mediocrity sets in early in “Freeheld,” a dreary dramatization of a pivotal gay rights case that paved the way for marriage equality. ‘Freeheld’ is an earnest but drab dramatization of a real-life story 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z THE lugubrious strains of “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” waft across a sunny beach in Acapulco. Girlfriend in a conga 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z She was an anxious, guilty, tearful child – lugubrious, in her own words. 'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z His house, though grand, is lugubrious, but the block’s happy outcome depends on the great desire of the rich a century ago to live with “congenial neighbors.” Streetscapes: The Grandest Block in New York 2014-03-21T20:59:02Z He would be a fantastic poker player, this lugubrious veteran coach. Global Soccer: For Del Bosque and Spain, Another Championship Phase Begins 2013-12-08T16:44:02Z The last thing baseball needs in October is a run drought coupled with the incredibly slow pace of October games: 3:23, 25 minutes longer than the lugubrious regular season. Boswell: In MLB playoffs, you have to squint to see the offense 2013-10-17T21:11:00Z My assessment here may seem a bit gloomy to you, but there is method in my lugubrious madness. Our Titanic Obesity Problem 2013-08-19T20:38:00Z It was beautiful stuff, gorgeously crafted – he called the British "landlocked and lugubrious" – but more formal than the chat afterwards. Rewind radio: The People's Songs; The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe; When Bradley Wiggins Met Paul Weller – review 2013-01-06T00:08:09Z No. They brought lugubrious oral hearings, miasmic third-party complaints and the stultified pace of justice, leaving complainants waiting for months for any resolution. Leveson's legal eagles will repeat all the old mistakes 2012-12-16T00:06:11Z The methods may be fast or slow, instinctive or lugubrious; the stories themselves sensational or dauntingly complicated. Journalism once had Woodward and Bernstein. Now it's guns for hire 2012-11-18T00:06:29Z So why saddle every paper and magazine on the rack with the same costs, same complex legal answers and same lugubrious audit trails? British press is too diverse to be pinned down by a powerful regulator 2012-07-28T23:01:14Z Attracted by her shrieks, the other wives imitated her and the whole house resounded with lugubrious lamentation. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z "I suppose we may conclude," Gervase said, at length, in a lugubrious tone, "that the game is up." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z They return with this lugubrious personage, garbed all in black, and present to him the little lady who, as he says, is so unexpectedly called upon to assume the functions of Royalty. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z The triumphant gayety of Death in this picture is in humorous contrast with the lugubrious expression on the countenance of his victim. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The air was wailing, lugubrious, unmusical, but the words were awesome. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z ‘I had a vineyard,’ rabbi,” he went on in a lugubrious sing-song, quoting from Isaiah, “‘I fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choicest vine. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z However, history in fiction may be a cavalcade of shining shadows, brilliant, lugubrious, dull, or joyful happenings; but where Thackeray succeeded multitudes have failed. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The tone was really so lugubrious--to say nothing of a shake of the head with which he could not help accompanying the statement--that a faint smile played on Mr. Stafford's lips. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z From time to time, in the silence of the night, could be heard the deep, lugubrious, indistinct note of the bittern. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z A tall, lanthorn-jawed man, he would have looked lugubrious in the King's scarlet which he had once worn; in his professional black, or in his shirt sleeves, cleaning plate, he was melancholy itself. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Good Sabbath!” always so full of festivity, was uttered in lugubrious whispers, which really meant: “May God take pity upon us.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z “If bunks it must be, bunks it is,” said Katherine, in a lugubrious tone that sent them all into gales of laughter, “but I never thought I’d live to see the day!” The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z More frequent, as the dismal day wore to an end, was the hoarse and lugubrious tooting of the ferryboats in the East River. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Rousing himself and shaking off his lugubrious mood, "What is that?" the lad asked. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z How lugubrious a countenance for a favoured lover! The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z One wonders whether with such manifest advantages the Welsh ministers' meetings were given over to lugubrious essays on "Why we do not reach the masses." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The proceedings outside were well-nigh as lugubrious as those within. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z "What's this, eh?" it asked, its tone more lugubrious than usual. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z There were enough lugubrious subjects which might not be escaped, without wilfully conjuring up baleful images. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Despite their lugubrious hints here am I, after over fifteen years of prosperous wedded life, queen of the land most favoured by nature in the world, adored by my husband and my children. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The religious, the lugubrious, the artificial, the spiritual poets were forgotten or remained only as the fragments, the half remembered horrors of monstrous and distorted dreams. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z That was naturally his first fear, and he wagged his head with gloom at some ducks that quacked in a neighbouring puddle as he surveyed the lugubrious possibility. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z It is indeed a lugubrious feast and a miserable merriment. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Last November, he began sending harshly worded letters to the chain’s shareholders, accusing the company of “lugubrious performance” and putting himself on the ballot for the company’s annual board election. DealBook: Sardar Biglari Take a Page From Warren Buffett for His Own Path 2012-02-07T01:18:33Z He repeated his lugubrious statement so often, that Gordon found himself in the end humming the words to the cadence of his steps. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z That done, he heaved a lugubrious sigh, caught Mr. Warburton's eye, laughed in answer to its quizzical gleam, and broke the seal. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z New elements of music and clowning change his lugubrious didacticism to a lyrical warning in a form I call "morality ballad opera." The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) 2012-01-25T03:00:37.903Z No wonder people were wearied to death, or within an inch of it, by reading this lugubrious quatrain, for the hundredth time. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z When the sickness passed over, he stood up away from the post, trembling and lugubrious. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Its pace is slow, its tone opaque and lugubrious. Indie Games Finalists Announced - Lessons for the Big Players? 2012-01-11T16:04:34Z He heaved a great sigh, and said in lugubrious tones: "There is always the river, madam." The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z To-day I thought I would go to University chapel for the sake of variety and hear Dr. Peabody's final word on him—and a very long and lugubrious one it was. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z The flutes and trumpets were large and of lugubrious tones; thus Ovid, Fast. vi. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z But lamentations were useless, and, after the lugubrious expression of a dismal hope for better luck next time, we separated. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Once on the defensive, and the word of attack given, they both began brandishing the swords methodically, first on one side and then on the other, with a lugubrious, terror-striking sound. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z The perusal of his works leaves one with the impression that Voltaire was constantly troubled with a nightmare, in the effort to free himself from which he emitted his lugubrious wailings. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z He droned out the last words in such a lugubrious tone that Archie felt sorry for him. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The prophecy with regard to Sacchi's company was speedily fulfilled; for the earthquake of Lisbon happening in 1755, they were obliged to quit the scene of that lugubrious disaster. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z I met Jack one evening as I was returning from one of these rambles; and I suppose I looked very lugubrious. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z “Poor dear Cockie!” says the cockatoo, in a mournfully lugubrious tone. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z I only wish you and Alice had assisted at some of the sittings—as Sargent likes animated, sympathetic, beautiful, talkative friends to do, in order to correct by their presence too lugubrious expressions. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The night’s work had developed tragic possibilities, and anything of a lugubrious nature interposing in his trend of thought was dismissed at once. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z The voice of the priest, as he raised the Host, was still more lugubrious than the sputtering of the tapers. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z The stories that he told, instead of being interesting as formerly, were of a lugubrious character. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z The appalling Abraj Al Bait Towers loom 1,972 lugubrious feet over the sacred precinct of the Grand Mosque of Mecca. ’Supertall’ Buildings Defy Cash Crunch, Ape Condoms, Scar Mecca 2011-11-01T17:16:12Z The loss of this adscititious adminicle would make the sage's impeccable, but lugubrious bosom vibrate with the horrors of dilution and dereliction. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z High above, the chanter rose and chanted forth in loud lugubrious tones the words of execration; while from the opposite side another mingled with these curses the thrilling sounds of the trumpet. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z A peevish light, cold and chill, made its way into the Se�orita de Elorza's room, giving the articles of furniture a lugubrious aspect quite different from what they usually bore. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z The great bell, which had begun to toll when the melancholy procession came in sight, continued to pour forth its lugubrious sounds during the whole of the ceremonial. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z But he now assumed a most solemn and lugubrious expression of countenance, and cried— "Dying fast!" Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z It is not enough to be rude, lugubrious, and grim. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z "Dear me, dear me!" cried the bishop, genuinely distressed, and then, suddenly catching sight of Barnes's lugubrious form appearing from behind a neighbouring tent, he hailed him. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z It is unlikely, however, that the visitor will care to linger in this lugubrious hall. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The two latter concealed their features by drawing a large black capoch, or hood, attached to their gowns over them, and this disguise added materially to their lugubrious appearance. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Pamela, coming up the garden path a few minutes later, discovered him sitting there with the same lugubrious expression of face, and his hands deep in his pockets, a perplexed and very much worried man. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Never have I heard anything more lugubrious than these hedgerow and woodland notes issuing from the cages in that damp, black corridor. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z He was wearing the same lugubrious look and the same waistcoat, unbuttoned in just the same manner that it had been unbuttoned the day before. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z "I suppose you are right," he said in a lugubrious voice. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Wolves had developed a reputation for failing to accrue the points their performances deserved but, if that changes, a season of mid-table mundanity might raise half a smile from their famously lugubrious manager. Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend 2011-08-15T07:00:02Z But he had scarcely done speaking, when the tocsin broke upon the night with its own lugubrious notes of warning. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z She looked just what she was—a particularly lugubrious, unhappy, English school-girl. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z "You may search me," was Bindle's lugubrious reply, as he moved across to the bar and ordered a pint of beer, some bread, and "a bit o' the cheese wot works the lift." Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z The whole prospect was sordid, uncouth, and suggested something of a nether world of lugubrious fancy. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z But the secret reached, he drew a long breath and became suddenly conscious of a lugubrious sound breaking in upon the silence with a gloomy iteration which was anything but cheering. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z Don't look so dreadfully downcast, old fellow, nor make such dismally lugubrious resolutions. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Now I should have been afraid—” She fell to shaking her head in lugubrious fashion, and watched the girl’s movements with anxious scrutiny. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z "It's come, mate," repeated a lugubrious voice, which Bindle recognised as that of the tall, despondent man with the stubbly chin. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z The ravens, from a neighbouring tree, renewed their lugubrious croak, as if resentful at being so long kept away from their repulsive feast. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z While he was scanning it, there came, as if out of the bushes, three short barks, followed by a prolonged lugubrious howl. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z That functionary heard his client's statement with a lugubrious countenance, and sighed profoundly, as though he were very sorry that the affair had happened. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Your father valued them highly in this life, but——" "They are the most lugubrious, sorrowful objects. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z An effect to which considerable contribution was made by the lugubrious strains of a three-piece orchestra, piano, violin, and 'cello, stationed to one side of the living-room set. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Such trivial amusements on the very eve of death would, as a matter of fact, be most lugubrious. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z After a few moments the sound of low lugubrious whistling was heard from the trees, and presently the musician emerged leading himself by the lobe of his ear. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z For this lugubrious performance were provided ponderous torches for the bearers, tapers for shrines, and huge candlesticks to be kept lighted at the altar. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The very atmosphere of the theatre, its design and its setting, seemed lugubrious. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The work was duly delivered, in which I remember there was a lugubrious character destined for Mdlle. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Kykie's face expressed lugubrious sympathy, but she held out no hope. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The tent door was pushed aside a few minutes later and Indian's lugubrious, tear-stained, horrified face peered in. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z "I am going to try," declared Mary, very penitent after having to memorize a very long and very lugubrious hymn. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z While he sat looking about him with lugubrious eyes, the man next to him—an uncouth individual indeed—whispered surreptitiously: "Ain't ye goin' to eat your punk?" The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z There were nights more noisy, more glaring, more grandiose, when the conflagrations and the cannonade enveloped Paris, but none of more lugubrious impress. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z This time, a lugubrious and prolonged cry replied, which sent a shudder through the heart of the bravest. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z The same lugubrious butler opened the door that had performed that office when I visited Cousin Park on that other memorable occasion. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z "Oh, cheer up!" she laughed, aroused by my lugubrious tone. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Scarce a week had elapsed since that somewhat lugubrious interview between Count Roseveldt and Captain Maynard in the room of the latter, when the two men once more met in the same apartment. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Women by the side of the lugubrious trench endeavoured to recognise these remains. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The same lugubrious, lamentable cry was heard, but nearer. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z Two guitars, a cornet, maracas, sticks and a lugubrious baritone. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z Wah-wah-oouah!” he howled out in response, giving the lugubrious signal; “now you may come on.” The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Olive looked so earnest and lugubrious that Mildred bit her lip to keep in the amused smile. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z He could be tough or tender, furious, or exultant, but never niggardly nor lugubrious. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z The mise-en-sc�ne is lugubrious in the extreme, punctuated by the shrieking peacocks at noon and the hooting owls at night. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The lugubrious dialogue has been carried on simultaneously with the bridling, and the "Good-night" is said as Ryecroft springs up on his stirrup. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Nerving myself for the encounter, I assumed a dejected and lugubrious expression, and slowly mounting the steps, I inserted my latch-key in the lock. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z And then she looked at us with such a comical, lugubrious expression, that further restraint was out of the question. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z “He’s not here! not a sign of him,” said one whose voice, from its altered and lugubrious tones, could with difficulty be recognised as that of the outwitted sentinel. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z It must have seemed like a lugubrious welcome to Miss Alice. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z They come from the direction of the camp, in a wild crooning wail, now and then a stave, as if coyotes were taking part in the lugubrious chorus. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z No, that can’t be it—your face is too portentous and lugubrious; you look more like one on the road to be hanged—ha, ha, ha!” Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The Obama Administration is studying various ways to help but is constrained by a lack of foreign aid money and the lugubrious reality of economic reform. Our No. 1 Priority: Jobs for Egypt's Restive Youth 2011-03-17T07:25:00Z Inside his silent cell, Holtspur had heard the clock striking the hour of twelve, in solemn lugubrious tones—too consonant with his thoughts. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z It would be difficult to imagine a more lugubrious Don Giovanni than the young man from Florence. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z “Rendered gay and giddy by the whole tenor of their lives, the very aspect of wisdom or the severe graces of virtue must have a lugubrious appearance to them.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The morning sun shines, and the statue is musical; but all the day there is silence; and at night—in society, I suppose—the sounds are lugubrious. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z His tone was so lugubrious as to preclude laughing. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z On the contrary, the cornet looked but little less lugubrious than his captain; and he had been in that mood ever since morning. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z I wanted to stop and dine with this lugubrious company. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z The Puritan mind was dominant; and the only sound of music that disturbed the unhappy silence was the lugubrious droning of a psalm or sad-toned hymn. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Now I am growing lugubrious; I who thought never to be lugubrious again. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Out of the corner of one rueful eye, however, the head of our constabulary favoured me with a glance that was at once whimsical and lugubrious. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z But for the merry peals at intervals interrupting the more lugubrious utterance, they might have supposed that a foul murder was being committed. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z In concert with such choristers, no wonder the human voices were uttered in tones especially earnest and lugubrious. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z What they heard was the lugubrious chant of a band of howling monkeys. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The lake looked still, and dark as Acheron itself—its sombre silence relieved only at intervals by sounds yet more lugubrious—the scream of the great curlew, or the screech-like call of the American ibis! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z The lugubrious dialogue has been carried on simultaneously with the bridling, and the “Good night” is said as Ryecroft springs up on his stirrup. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z To this lugubrious declaration Lena Rook yielded ready assent. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z It was a lugubrious conventional act symbolical of selfish grief, a denial of true religious teaching which should have faith, and therefore joy, as its illuminating principle. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The Cripplegate church, St. Giles's, a less lugubrious spot and less difficult of access, is nevertheless strangely sequestered, so that it also affects the observant eye as equally one of the surprises of London. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z I hate bells—the sharp spinsterish telephone bell, the lugubrious church bell, the clangorous railway bell. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z At the lugubrious announcement Cornelia's mind began to wander; still, one lucid thought rose clear above the growing vertigo that obsessed the young girl's thoughts—the thought of putting an end to her life. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z A solemn company at the best of times, when properly spaced and trimmed, but now with unpruned branches intertwining, the trees that were killing one another in their struggle for light were positively lugubrious. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z The doors do not fit closely, the wainscoting cracks, the wind whistles, and the sea roars in the most lugubrious fashion imaginable. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z He flew over my head and circled over our house emitting his lugubrious screech. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z He had Puritan written all over his lugubrious countenance, and looked so solemn, that one wondered how he came to exchange the clergyman’s garb for the garb of Belial. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z "It won't do any good to turn it now, for the mischief has been done," Bob said in a lugubrious tone; "but you boys had better go for'ard an' help him set it ship-shape." A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z While he spoke and laughed spasmodically, two lugubrious, sarcastic folds cut a deep semicircle in each emaciated cheek. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Humongous pieces of legislation were passed, but — with the exception of health care reform — few broke new ground and many, like financial reform, were compromised and massaged to the point of lugubrious semirelevance. Politics, the Economy and the Media in 2010: A Look Back 2010-12-29T08:30:00Z With a lugubrious affectation of grief the funeral pageant passed. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z To lighten this rather lugubrious subject, I will terminate with a little anecdote, which has never seen the light, and which I think is too delightfully humorous and pathetic to be allowed to remain unpublished. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z The singer’s lugubrious pathos appeared to be received with attentive and uncritical interest. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Uncle Kutowski and the Candidate drew closer together, convulsed by every gradation of fury, while the painter stared vacantly on the ground, lost in lugubrious thought. The Undying Past Of all men in the world, a bankrupt requires to wear a lugubrious look. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Certainly it is not because of sympathies solemn or lugubrious; for the character of these lissom damsels of Seville is the reverse of gloomy. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The poor mother was affected to tears by these lugubrious observations. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 "Revise the condescendence in that partikler," said the laird, rising to his feet, and exhibiting sundry bleeding scars on his lugubrious countenance. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 It was a place of ruins, dark, lugubrious, and forbidding; and as Don Gabriel strode among the massive fragments, he found himself in a theatre congenial with his gloomy and wrecking spirit. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico So paralysed were they that it was not till the crunching of the carriage wheels on the gravel roused them from their lugubrious stupor that they found tongue to discuss their situation. A Poached Peerage His eyes narrowed as he studied Delaney’s lugubrious face which was sadly in need of a shave. Whispering Wires Poor Mrs Twisleton! sad and lugubrious was she on that melancholy evening. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Gerrit, a healthy fellow, strong as a horse, an excellent officer, a jolly brother, a first-rate father with all his fair-haired little children: Gerrit lugubrious! Small Souls She would have been quite willing to see her sister married, but the lover should have been dingy, black-coated, lugubrious, having about him some true essence of the tears of the valley of tribulation. Rachel Ray Kattie, I felt serious a minute ago, but the sight of your lugubrious face makes me cackle. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life "Not a week without a hanging," says Sastrow, who was apparently careful to attend these lugubrious ceremonies. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Her cheeks swollen with crying seemed flabbier than ever, and her long retreating chin expressed a lugubrious misanthropy. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The house that had once been "Home, Sweet Home," to Winn was the most lugubrious blotch of all. Rockhaven Even the tallow candle that was burning on the table had a lugubrious look. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico These words, uttered in a low tone, were followed by a silence, which in turn was broken by a cry, shrill, piercing, lugubrious, unlike anything human. Marguerite de Valois The door was opened by a well-appointed footman, who, with lugubrious face,—with a face which spoke much more eloquently than his words,—declared that Miss Dormer was not at home. Ayala's Angel Michael really admired the hospitality which was willing to shelter this lugubrious girl, and as he contemplated her, looking in the sunlight like a moist handkerchief, he had a fleeting sympathy with Hungarian Dave. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Very near his end he had the lugubrious curiosity to cause the coffins of his embalmed ancestors to be opened at the Escorial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The last ones bore a coffin, and sang in lugubrious tones the doleful 'Miserere.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Meantime they kept on their way and at length saw the lugubrious outline of the gibbet, erected and first used by Enguerrand de Marigny. Marguerite de Valois Tommy had an idea of what his lugubrious acquaintance meant to say, though the latter’s wisdom was rather above his intellectual stature. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands The church offered a still more gloomy and lugubrious spectacle. Maximina The noise came from some native camp, that might be miles away and the message it tapped out in code seemed to convey a lugubrious warning. Tahara Among African Tribes Mariana listened a while, but the chamber of his work was as far from the lugubrious noises of the den of Dom Teruel as if it had been the Place of Eyes itself. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The mental anguish and actual suffering that a sane person must necessarily undergo when suddenly deprived of his liberty and brutally incarcerated in some lugubrious, lonely sanitarium can better be imagined than described. John Marsh's Millions "I have not," said Marteau in the tone of lugubrious triumph. Where the Pavement Ends Would you leave me stranded on a foreign shore with a lugubrious spouse!” An Unknown Lover “No, I don’t think so,” said Grout, more lugubrious than ever. Young Wallingford The drawn out notes of this lugubrious refrain were uttered with a strange, low, concentrative emphasis which was indescribably thrilling. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War May the sorcery of love procure for us the shuddering sensibility of sorrow, without its agony, as we possess the perfect delight of day without the cold and lugubrious shadows of the night. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar This lugubrious work of art was set up in white marble after his death in St Paul’s cathedral, where it may still be seen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" It was a long, lugubrious, deep cry that seemed approaching our tent. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Some of the great personages of the court still remembered the little Italian proteg�e of Charles V., and asked her to write for them poems of love, in less lugubrious vein. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) It really looked as though there was more than met the eye in that heathenish adjuration as they walked unharmed through the deadly reptiles to the refrain of the long-drawn, lugubrious chant. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War But he could not prevent the obsequies from being celebrated with the lugubrious pomp suited to the rank of the departed. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 He was profoundly moved on quitting the Tuileries, but, dismal and lugubrious as his forebodings may have been, how much more sombre was the reality to prove! Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Rhum and gin drunk at long draughts in the English manner fail of their effect and inspire me with but a lugubrious gaiety. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Far in the woods they heard strange, lugubrious noises, moans, hootings, and once a shrill, savage scream. Northern Diamonds "Well, wot's the joke?" he went on, looking from the lugubrious countenance of Mr. MacFie to the melancholy foreboding depicted on that of Mr. Hearty. Adventures of Bindle These lugubrious ceremonies had a fascination for him, that may remind one of the tenacity with which his mother, Joanna, clung to the dead body of her husband, taking it with her wherever she went. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 The hideous tableau surpasses the most lugubrious conceptions of Dante's sombre imagination. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty There was a quick step behind her, and then an exclamation of horror as Gwynne shot past and caught the lugubrious visitant by the shoulder. Ancestors A Novel The muffled bark of lugubrious timbre came again and again, deadened by distance and doors. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 Mr. Sopley then plunged into a lugubrious address full of dreary foreboding. Adventures of Bindle You always come back to those lugubrious thoughts, dear seigneur! The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium He was the principal impresario of the lugubrious f�te which disgraced Paris on April 15, 1792. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Mrs. O'Brien went on in the same lugubrious tone. The Rosie World She’s superstitious enough, in all conscience, yet she has the happy faculty of keeping her lugubrious son in subjection.” A Daughter of the Forest In time the singers kept up their long-drawn, lugubrious, ululating song; in time, too, the dancers, tricked out in singular finery, stepped, leaped, swayed, and gesticulated—their plumed fingers fluttering in the air like butterflies. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Solemn and lugubrious to the last degree, she supplied in her own proper person the want of the whole corps of mourners, who generally attract sympathy on such occasions. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine But now he looked at it, took it and held it for an instant, his bruised and swollen face taking on an expression of lugubrious self-pity. The Coming of the Law It was a lugubrious subterranean apartment, lighted by a single lantern suspended from a beam. Cudjo's Cave And suddenly in the gathering dusk rose the long-drawn howl of a coyote, lifting into the stillness a lugubrious note of appeal. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance "Mr. Hugo, sir, there's been many inquiries after you," he began in a lugubrious tone of voice. Under False Pretences A Novel The artist’s share of the work is by far the best part of the somewhat lugubrious entertainment, which the performances of his literary associates scarcely serve to enliven. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. When I carried this dispatch to the Secretary I found him sitting in close conference with Mr. Hunter, both with rather lugubrious faces. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The reader's general impression is that of lugubrious egotism. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 To speak precisely, those were seven lugubrious hours; since Flora would not be due before eight o’clock, if, indeed, I might count on her eluding her double cordon of spies. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) If at this time the Republic compared its conditions with the tapestried court in Mexico, then hope of success must have 365seemed lugubrious irony. The Missourian Among the backers of the losing horse, Daniel O’Connell and Joseph Hume may be easily detected by the lugubrious expression of their faces. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. It was a lugubrious reception at the President’s mansion. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The Rocher Pourri, which I also passed on my way, had just acquired an additional but a lugubrious celebrity, an Arab having killed a Frenchman there the day before. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia The drama, after the Third Act, is lugubrious. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 And then surprise the most lugubrious unexpectedly clouded his lank features. The Missourian No wonder that the emperor expresses himself dissatisfied with a “prospect” of so lugubrious a character. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. He drew a full breath and drove it forth, a lugubrious note. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists It was not in nature to spare a thought for lugubrious Koala or prickly Echidna, when Warrigal waved her bushy tail and trotted on before. Finn The Wolfhound Thereupon, the jewelers' nether joints all quaked and knocked together, As they packed their Saratogas in lugubrious despair. The Foreign Hand Tie Of his contemplated strategy at Tampico, there had been a most lugubrious botching. The Missourian A lugubrious sentiment of this sort was sure to obtain Mrs. Yorke's approbation. Shirley “Here’s where we will put our dead,” he said, with a lugubrious grin, let down the lid softly and crossed abruptly to the roomiest and coziest chair beside the curtained window. Officer 666 A few days ago we received the following lugubrious epistle, ostensibly from a parson in Worcestershire, as the envelope bore the postmark of Tything. Arrows of Freethought We are therefore moved to say that she does injustice to Christianity in representing it as responsible for all the black paraphernalia and lugubrious ceremonies of death. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Behind him the three hundred windows of the palace Placentia seemed to peer at him like eyes, curious, hostile, lugubrious or amazed. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court To me it was a miracle that she could call so lightly and hold that note of lugubrious laughter in her voice. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 The Indian was nowhere visible, and as if he fully understood the question, the collie answered by a long, lugubrious whine. Jessica, the Heiress Fouchette swept it,—so low and dark and heavy and lugubrious that it seemed to threaten momentarily to crush out what little human life and happiness remained there. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The mandrake, of course, was the subject of ancient dislike, and perhaps it was natural for our superstitious progenitors to regard with suspicion any relative of that lugubrious root. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore As soon as the renegade and his two companions entered that cheerless and uncomfortable dwelling, all those woe-begone and lugubrious countenances suddenly acquired a degree of animation. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. His face became somewhat more lugubrious than before, but he said not a word. Is He Popenjoy? After a big tonal climax followed by the lugubrious monologue of a bassoon the work closed. Melomaniacs She laughed at his lugubrious countenance, then stood up, and reached out a hand to him, letting him hold it for just a breath of time. The Heart of Thunder Mountain She stopped at sight of his lugubrious face, relented, and laughed. Mixed Faces With them appeared the solemn and lugubrious vestments of the ecclesiastical dignitaries, and the coarse habit and shaven crown of the monk. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. Last voyage, coming out of the Venus atmosphere––” He plunged into a lugubrious account of his troubles with space-sick voyagers. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 If any one did complain he or she was likely to be at once treated to one of the lugubrious compositions before mentioned, producing the "dumps" for a month after. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 “Ah, Madame,” and Delaven arose from his chair with a lugubrious countenance, “for how am I to forgive you for adopting the fancy that Ireland is out of the world entirely?” The Bondwoman As he wallowed in the lugubrious comfort of his own post-mortem revenge he wished that he had left unsaid some of the things he had said. In a Little Town The laugh wrinkles of his face were re-twisted into lines of anxiety which gave his face a most solemn and lugubrious expression. The Affair of the Brains Twice they went in a circle around the masts, marching in time to low taps on the drums, and then joined in a lugubrious religious chant. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery And thus, if we did not often halloo, Khalid, like a huntsman pursuing his game, would lose himself in the pathless, lugubrious damp of the forest. The Book of Khalid The long-drawn music of an Old Testament psalm is not without a certain doleful impressiveness, but the human soul needs occasional stimulus, even on Sundays, of something less lugubrious. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Then, for two mortal hours, there was a dismal and lugubrious travesty of the performances of that world-famous troupe which never performs out of London. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Geraldine had awakened from her nap much refreshed, and was disposed to take a less lugubrious view of things. Lover or Friend The next morning he came to me with a lugubrious countenance. Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer I vainly tried to keep up my courage; this lugubrious story would haunt me in spite of myself. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories And then there ensued a pause broken by the voice, a little lugubrious in tone, of the Rector within the altar rails, and the tremulous answers of the pair outside. The Marriage of Elinor A number of heavy chairs predominated covered in a maroon leather which had cracked in places; and there were three lugubrious sofas to match. Amabel Channice Is he likely to do so, with Mrs. Baxter's lugubrious countenance opposite him morning, noon, and night? Lover or Friend Polly listened to Aunt Lucia’s lugubrious views with scarcely a twinge of alarm, and in five minutes she had plunged into preparations for the journey. A Bookful of Girls Where the thunder of Homer's lyre or the sweet notes of Virgil's muse had resounded, you heard now a dismal croak or a lugubrious chant. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge It was a long, lugubrious effusion, telling of the search by a heart-broken chemistry class for a beloved teacher, who had unaccountably disappeared. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Lucius Fry, who had hastily set up the step-ladder, and was now balancing himself somewhat precariously at the top of it, let out a lugubrious howl. Anderson Crow, Detective Audrey had a sincere respect for her; but she certainly wished that Mrs. Baxter took a less lugubrious view of life. Lover or Friend As a lugubrious accessory to his own quarters, he had a remarkably clear view of a gallows, erected directly in front of his fragment of a tent. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier I learned from him the details of the lugubrious business. Tatterdemalion There was a fluttering at the corners of Malcolm Sage's mouth, as he lifted his eyes for a second to the almost lugubrious countenance of Lord Beamdale. Malcolm Sage, Detective Mr. Chairman, fellow Republicans and voters of the opposite sex," began Harry, in a distinctly lugubrious tone, "we have now come to the most critical moment in the history of Tinkletown. Anderson Crow, Detective Poor Mollie was broken-hearted at the idea of leaving her friend, and it was a long time before Audrey could induce her to look at things in a less lugubrious light. Lover or Friend The Presbyterians of that day and that race were by no means a lugubrious people. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier As he was an excellent amateur musician, the lugubrious tone of his whistling was the subject of many jokes between them. Otherwise Phyllis If some ill-advised optimist ventured to question a particularly lugubrious statement, he was challenged to explain the betting, which had crept up to six to one on Jefferson offered, with no takers. Malcolm Sage, Detective In the sound of the sea there was something lugubrious: a fit accompaniment of the unhallowed scene that was being enacted by those within hearing of it. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea “My twenty onzas are gone to the devil!” said he, in a lugubrious tone. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Now, papa, don't tell me that you're going to behave like a lugubrious parent in a novel! It, and Other Stories Above and around waved the dark solemn cypress-trees, fit emblems of grief—rendered doubly lugubrious in their expression by the hoary tillandsia, that draped them like a couch of the dead. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West In all this a predominant and lugubrious impression of keys and bolts. The Spirit of Rome Buck, his head thrown back and his eyes closed, seemed to get consoling echoes of the past even from this lugubrious assault on Melody, and loungers hovered at a respectful distance. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 In the midst of an interval of silence—in which the very stillness itself increased the apprehension of the travellers—was heard the long lugubrious whine of a prairie wolf. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora A regiment going back to the trenches in the night is, from the point of view of the pomp and circumstance of glorious war, a very lugubrious procession. The Rough Road I whispered to him to come close—this lugubrious blasphemer who wears my name in his throat. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Some hours afterwards I descended too, and a melancholy sight was there, with very lugubrious sounds. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" This strange object gave a lugubrious and sinister appearance to a room in other respects cheerful, gay, and elegant. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf The laugh that followed was interrupted by the approach of a raucous, shrieking noise that rose and fell in lugubrious cadence. Humorous Ghost Stories It was a mood of Autumnal, minor-poet melancholy, a mood with which, it had occurred to me, I might fill out the rhymes of a lugubrious sonnet. More Trivia Or else I would have flung myself in despair upon the ever-imploring bosom of my lugubrious sniveler. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Merely because I am lighter of spirits than this lugubrious old world? Free Air Then, to the surprise of the young maiden, the three nuns all fell upon their knees around her, and began to chant a solemn hymn in most lugubrious notes. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf He loves to shake the lugubrious terrors of the past before you, exposing their hollow futility, and he contrives to create new fears for you magically while you are laughing at him. Humorous Ghost Stories I felt its sadness very much; I felt quite lugubrious about it. More Trivia His lugubrious tones grew higher with hatred; he raised one hand above his head and one gripped tight her fat shoulder. Privy Seal His Last Venture "I hope you will find it comfortable," he said, in a tone of voice that was beyond measure lugubrious. The Vicar of Bullhampton They preached the most violent declamations against Rome, drawn from the most lugubrious of the prophets, and stirred the minds of their hearers into the most furious indignation. The Huguenots in France I saw them grow sad in face, while the strain proceeded at a slow pace, and the voce di canto degenerated into a more lugubrious howl than ever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 A much more lugubrious memorial is presented from the same collection, Fig. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture His newborn solemnity was the most marked feature of his demeanour, but sometimes it dissolved into pathetic demands for sympathy, and then again froze into profound and lugubrious silence. Simon "I don't think that Mrs. Jay would undertake that," said the ironmonger, who had ceased to rub his hands and to bow, and whose face had now become singularly long and lugubrious. The Vicar of Bullhampton This brought the Judge out; and when they saw him, they yelled in lugubrious tones, as if they were starving, "Apples! apples!" A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West But there’s Robert always so lugubrious; and poor Sir Bevil looks as deplorable, and comes up to town with that poor little girl all in crape, and won’t eat any luncheon! Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Luka, as he worked, sang a lugubrious native ditty, while with his knife he trimmed the skins into shape. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Frances was still looking somewhat lugubrious when the door opened and Miss Mildmay senior came in. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls In the meantime Mary Lowther at Loring had resolved that she would not be lugubrious, and she sat down to dinner opposite to her aunt with a pleasant smile on her face. The Vicar of Bullhampton Mrs. Benker, rather disappointed that she should have received no money, and wishing that she had said Walter Franklin had not paid her rent, crept off, a lugubrious figure, across the bridge. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story Then as, without speaking, he would have turned away, a loud, peremptory knock resounded upon the door of the keep and echoed and re-echoed with lugubrious reverberation through the old stone passages around them. The Light of Scarthey Having uttered these very lugubrious words, and almost succeeded in throwing a wet blanket over the party, he sat down. The Bertrams No heckling social restrictions, no vapid idle piffle at dull teas; no lugubrious pretence of burdensome duties. The Desert Fiddler When it faltered and collapsed on the o-o-oh, the other voices joined in and dragged out the syllable to lugubrious and harrowing length. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls The morrow, however, was the first of his lugubrious time. The House with the Green Shutters Pauline told her sad narrative in a most lugubrious manner, and she felt almost offended at the conclusion when Nancy burst into a roar of laughter. Girls of the Forest Very few words passed between them, but they were not in their nature peculiarly lugubrious. The Bertrams A few minutes 19 later Wainwright emerged from the telephone booth in the drug store with a lugubrious expression. The Search She arrived at Malmaison at the end of a lugubrious day, when the whole place was enveloped in a thick fog. Royal Palaces and Parks of France I bulge with benevolence like a ripe fig—and therefore your lugubrious visage troubles me.” The Proud Prince The same lugubrious deck, the same refracting caoutchoucs, the same most lamentable pleasure trip as that of the other phantom vessel going its different way, and the same heart-broken glances exchanged from deck to deck. Tartarin On The Alps No, neither rain nor lugubrious tragedy would wash away the gloss that covered his cracks for he never ceased to be amused by the incredible, the ironic, and the peculiar of everyday experiences. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Shif'less Sol's words were so lugubrious that Henry was compelled to laugh under his breath. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The lugubrious booming of cannons came rolling over the meanderings of the Seine from the capital. Royal Palaces and Parks of France If anything could have added to the naturally lugubrious expression of those lumbering freight carriers, it was the jaunty poke-bonnets with the attenuated "Oh, let us be joyful" visages grinning beneath. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan For Bompard were those lugubrious chimes of death, which a warm breeze wafted through the country solitudes. Tartarin On The Alps In loss and tragedy so great that all life seemed a lugubrious and murky haze he knew that at any second he could fall to pieces and yet here he came anyway. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais "Trust most honest skippers to give the Inlet a wide berth," was the lugubrious reply. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Then he was solemn, pompous, and almost lugubrious; now he cracked a joke with the best, and told humorous stories with infinite gusto. The Day of Judgment Where have the elements you absorb to-day in respiration and assimilation been drawn from, what lugubrious adventures have they been subject to? Astronomy for Amateurs They would be sitting about on the horsehair chairs making lugubrious conversation. Stubble At which Smartle, Esq., becomes lugubrious, averring that he is capable of turning my inside out in no time unless I am preciously careful. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Its aspect is sombre and sad—its dark, turbid waters scarce reflecting the stars that shine so brilliantly over it; while the waves beating against its sedge-encircled shores, utter only the most lugubrious sounds. The Tiger Hunter The voice was hoarse sorrow—almost lugubrious comedy. The Planet Strappers This is the reason that persons like you are so lugubrious, or perhaps it is because they lack faith. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul At the end of each meal they would remain with their elbows on the table groaning with a lugubrious air. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Solitary Yankees straggled along with the most lugubrious faces, troubling no one. A Confederate Girl's Diary “What are we to do now?” inquired Gaspar, in a lugubrious tone. The Tiger Hunter Otherwise he was still the same large hulk with much the same lugubrious humor. The Planet Strappers His usually jocund face was lugubrious and worried. The Man Who Knew Once or twice, in passing, she heard him singing to himself the most lugubrious song in the world. Mary, Mary March, whose curiosity was aroused, partly by the novelty of the “Wild Man’s” title, and partly by the lugubrious solemnity of Bounce, said— “Go on, old boy.” The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Again he heard the wild lugubrious scream rising above the roar of the waters; and perceived that his horse, hearing it also, trembled between his thighs! The Tiger Hunter Father Hennepin gave it the name of Pepin, or the Lake of Tears, from the lugubrious cries of the chieftain in the funereal dance. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago Mrs. Batholommey entered into the spirit of the affair with a lugubrious zest that would have sickened Kathrien had it not taken so much of the burden of arrangement-making off her own tired young shoulders. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play Poor Bliss quite belied his name, for his school work, in which he never could by any effort succeed, kept him in a state of lugubrious disappointment. St. Winifred's, or The World of School The bank was black with groups of people, tearful wives and whimpering children, lugubrious neighbors, pessimistic citizens. The Man from the Bitter Roots In fact, a lugubrious and solemn voice, imposing silence on the funereal equipage of the Bucentaur, cried, 'Who goes there?' Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Indeed, he confided to me, with a look that, for him, was positively lugubrious, that he would have been more gratified if the horrid place had been empty. Mushrooms on the Moor |
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