mournfulness

Example Sentences

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I'm glad they weren't, to be clear, because the implication lent more of a mournfulness to the whole passage both for the spy and for The Captain.

From Salon • May 27, 2024

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

There’s a surprising amount of death in Horizon Zero Dawn, not just NPCs but friends, allies and family, and a deeper mournfulness as you piece through the wreckage of human society.

From The Verge • Dec. 14, 2020

There’s a natural mournfulness about his singing, but when it’s stretched out taffy-like, as it is here, it begins to take on a wistful quality, a good match for this song about living well.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

“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