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

"Not in her, not in her!" the younger lady declared, shaking her head with a dolefulness that was neither jocular not affected.

From The Aspern Papers by James, Henry

But the extreme dolefulness of Mrs. Newt had already perplexed her; and the prompt, simple way in which she answered this question precluded the suspicion of artifice.

From Trumps by Curtis, George William