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
He found Cicely kneeling before a pail in which Melchisedek stood upright, a picture of sooty dolefulness, with water trickling from every sodden spike of his coat.
From Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray
There was a certain accent of dolefulness in the way he said it.
From Young People's Pride A Novel by Stephen Vincent Benét
