dolefulness

Example Sentences

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It looked like a snow angel, but also like a mummy — an image of both levity and dolefulness, neither all good nor all bad.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

But in “The Night Stages” it arrives late, and Ms. Urquhart’s unremitting dolefulness has already deadened our nerve endings to the heartache she wants to conjure.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2015

Where the network’s “True Detective” occasionally broke its dolefulness with the slyest, philosophically artful wink at an audience riveted by its mystery, “The Leftovers” grafts more unhappiness onto unhappiness.

From Washington Post

Dumps suggest dolefulness, but the debate on the action of the Disposals Board in disposing of the accumulations at Slough, St. Omer and elsewhere was decidedly lively.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

There was a certain accent of dolefulness in the way he said it.

From Young People's Pride A Novel by Benét, Stephen Vincent