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

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 saturnine darkness of Connery answers the strangeness and anxieties in Tippi Hedren’s mysterious Marnie.

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2020

The elfin Mr. Keating, the saturnine Mr. Ruddy and the radiant Ms. Street all move persuasively between fragility and strength.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 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