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

Darker moods are kept from being too saturnine; his Sarabandes aren’t milked for melancholy.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2019

Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin