sullen
Example Sentences
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One character’s eyebrows are “an attack of angles”; another character has a “droopy face creased with lines like crooked canals meant to drain his large, sullen eyes of life.”
From Los Angeles Times
This is far from a conventionally heroic biopic, featuring a sullen protagonist vainly seeking more and more power, as if it might possibly satiate the gnawing void inside himself.
From Los Angeles Times
"You're in the works and it's sullen, there's a lot of depression, a lot of down faces. We try to pick ourselves up... we've got to."
From BBC
Ivanka's poised and polite presence on the witness stand stood in contrast to the sullen performance by her brother Eric last week and the defiant and rambling testimony of her father on Monday.
From Reuters
Then I became a sullen, chronically online teenager.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
