doleful
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A version of this review appears in print on March 21, 2014, on page C4 of the with the headline: Still Doleful, Still Impulsive.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2014
Visual Editions Doleful predictions of the death of the book have been uttered every time a new medium has emerged, from radio onward.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2010
Doleful Comedian Pat Paulsen joins Singer Glen Campbell in a song-and-comedy hour in which the Brothers themselves appear as guests along with Nancy Sinatra and Joey Bishop.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Doleful stories of the project--directors and writers hired and dropped, the budget cut and restored, the story rearranged during editing--could land the film on the junk heap of historical movies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Still living at Castle Doleful, fourteen-year-old Kate was steeped in the morbid gloom surrounding Mary Greeley.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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