And pretty much in sync with why I think Gordon Brown's intensity and dourness is less of a negative and more of a positive in real terms. From Wordnik.com. [Nice guys finish last] Reference
Business is lively here, the chronic "dourness" of a market being discounted by the scarcity of horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
"There is a sort of lefty dourness about him" - ha!. From Wordnik.com. [Who is the Villain ..remind me ?] Reference
There is a sort of lefty dourness about him that I find rather off putting. From Wordnik.com. [Who is the Villain ..remind me ?] Reference
Perhaps that's just tempered now with a bit of old-line Unitarian dourness. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Uh oh, here come the Unitarians and Universalists!] Reference
For all the visions of past and future, surely dourness will not in the end prevail. From Wordnik.com. [Seasons Greetings from the Lieutenant Governor and a Performance by the Niagara Brass Ensemble] Reference
I never ask proposers why they think that death defies a dourness of its consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
I swear, abjection and dourness descend in March - at least for those of us in the Northland. From Wordnik.com. [Lucky Lady] Reference
I have always found Condoleezza Rice's facial expressions amazing in their unguarded dourness. From Wordnik.com. [Elayne Boosler: Condi, Botox, and World Peace] Reference
He writes with marvelous evocativeness and a certain dourness reflective of his New England heritage. From Wordnik.com. [Food Writing] Reference
Neither does it have to be glumly downbeat: I'd hate to see British SF return to the dourness of Iron Age SF. From Wordnik.com. [New dreams for old] Reference
Since then the morning news has been filled with doom, gloom, direness, dourness, dullness, dreariness and dread. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking of leaders] Reference
Though he's lived in England since 1968, Norman has retained the lilt of the local loons and a certain characteristic dourness. From Wordnik.com. [Only The English are British] Reference
He was working quickly, like a man without enough time, and his expression was grim, a dangerous difference from its normal dourness. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
He was working quickly, like a man without enough time, and his expression was grim, a dangerous differ-ence from its normal dourness. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and Other Stories]
Puritanism, which endures hardship without dourness. From Wordnik.com. [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference
He gloried in all such tributes to Sourdough's dourness. From Wordnik.com. [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference
Na, an 'speak to his son the auld man wadna, for the very dourness o' him. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
There was a sullen, callous dourness where bright self-will had once had its dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
He looked abroad on the general dourness of gray earth and gray air and gray sky, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Road] Reference
Wow, that is some dourness and I probably resemble some of those remarks (blogger and advisor). From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
(Anger and dourness are apparently expected and welcome; gallows humor apparently is not.) wrote. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
"You're as obstinate as the devil," smiled Peter, but in his heart he admired the dourness of his friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North] Reference
It was the psychological moment; Thomas Hastings had driven away all dourness and Angus McRae's case was safe. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Rainbow] Reference
But as plans for annual summer festivals are shelved, people have started groaning about excessive government dourness. From Wordnik.com. [CNET News.com] Reference
So modern Rationalism had a stern fight with Andrew, struggling with the madness of the Kelt, the dourness of the Puritan. From Wordnik.com. [Captivity] Reference
The "bodies," on their part, could rarely get near enough Gourlay to pierce his armour; he kept them off him by his brutal dourness. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
His cheeks sag slightly and his eyes slant down toward his temples, giving him a natural dourness he sometimes exaggerates for effect. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's mixture of sackcloth dourness and Dunkirk defiance has been going down surprisingly well with the electorate. From Wordnik.com. [MarketWatch.com - Top Stories] Reference
I'm ready for them, "Brian said, his handsome face set in dourness. From Wordnik.com. [The Distant Echo]
Given the dourness of Peck’s fiction, the humor comes as a welcome surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Picking on Peck « So Many Books] Reference
Gasim’s dourness soon clashed upon Zaal’s metallic cruelty, and the pair had high words. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
He is noted for his dourness. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
Dinky-Dunk out of his dourness. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
Optimism wins elections, not dourness. From Wordnik.com. [Outside The Beltway | OTB] Reference
"dourness.". From Wordnik.com. [Angling Sketches] Reference
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