saturnine

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2020

When “Studio 54” screened at Sundance in 2018, the audience hissed every time Mr. Cohn’s saturnine image flashed on the screen.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2019

He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller