saturnine
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Slatkin noted that the recording, released in 1955, didn’t sell well, probably thanks to the album cover’s saturnine painting of a composer that few would recognize.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2025
Darker moods are kept from being too saturnine; his Sarabandes aren’t milked for melancholy.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
But even in that calm gloom, my eyes slowly acclimated to the 14 grandly saturnine paintings, made by Mark Rothko in the late 1960s.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022
The sun had just gone down, and white light glowed between the darkening sky and the dormant fields, the crouching, saturnine orchards.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018
Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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