saturnine

Example Sentences

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A less imaginative film might have tried to trace that sorrow to a source in childhood, or to establish a link between Tesla’s saturnine temperament and his unsettled career.

From New York Times

It is not easy to kick off a new era with the requisite upbeat mood when the saturnine sight of a near-vacant arena evokes the apathy caused by past disappointments.

From The Guardian

Pat and Steve, moving across the Golden Gate Bridge, bought a hilltop plot that looked onto the marshes and the saturnine eastern face of Mt.

From The New Yorker

Olivier is the saturnine widower Max de Winter who marries Fontaine’s shy and mousy lady’s companion and brings her back to his magnificent Cornish home, which is all but haunted by his first wife: Rebecca.

From The Guardian

This current fascination may attest as well to a saturnine swing in the sociopolitical consciousness.

From New York Times