downbeat

Why did the Russian Ministry of Culture help to finance such a downbeat portrait of contemporary Russia?

Most affecting is his romance with a cute, downbeat girl inmate named Andrea.

Full of lively, comic storytelling and resonant in theme—youth ends; how sad—it casts a downbeat and very of-the-moment mood.

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, the New Yorker, and more.