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

The last part of the drive on a road causewayed through the endless mangrove swamp impresses the imagination strongly by its dolefulness.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

And the Rector, having laid down his pipe, took to studying his boots with a certain dolefulness.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.