dourness
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The dourness of “The Complex” is, I think, supposed to indicate the book’s serious intentions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The cast is fine, but there’s a dispiriting dourness to the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
To his exasperation, the audience loved it all - his dourness, his deadpan answers, his low-key frustration at being trapped in a 21st Century Kafkaesque nightmare.
From BBC ● May 5, 2021
Though the Bible readings through this period warn against performing dourness for the sake of impressing people with your piety, the church itself goes stark: rough, burlaplike vestments instead of shiny finery; no “alleluias.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2019
Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity coexist on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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