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

My admiration for the excellence of the writing was tinged with mournfulness for a writer who deserved better in her lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022

“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