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

Waters emerged as its new, more saturnine leader.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023

The influential composer and conductor John Adams programmed one of the bluntly titled, saturnine yet cathartic works of the late ’70s on a Los Angeles Philharmonic program in 2018.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2021

The brooding, saturnine artist has evolved into a genial grandfather.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2019

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller