mournfulness

Example Sentences

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These materialize in ways that lend unexpected mournfulness to some figures and, to others, a squeamishness that’ll make your skin crawl.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025

Played live under the big screen on Saturday at the Philadelphia Film Center, this grinding score occasionally lightens for moments of mellower mournfulness.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

In a plaintive tweet that scored high on the mournfulness scale, the team said “it once was a bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ”

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2022

The Atlantic’s Sophie Gilbert notes that “Rhys … has a greater range with watchable mournfulness than anyone else on television.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

“But that part must not have worked so well. They all still suffer from that pesky ‘chronic mournfulness effect.’”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart