Adjective : lugubrious songs of lost love. From Dictionary.com.
In contrast to her lugubriousness, 1 would be buoyant. From Wordnik.com. [the secret sense]
Every year they have a Hiroshima program with over-the-top lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Fujita, grilled?] Reference
"As bad as a chicken just out of the shell," shaking her head with comical lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
Therefore, at first, I mistook Carolyn's penchant for preciseness and specificity, for mere lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Recalling Carolyn Kent : Of Irreplaceable Artifacts and Friends] Reference
The miserable songs — with their long, long ways that ended in sheer lugubriousness: real death – wails!. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
They have the visceral impact of documentary reportage without the self-importance and general lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Case for Reality TV] Reference
She smiled broadly, but then tempered that by letting her expressive eyes and mouth droop into lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [I. O. U.] Reference
A quick search turns up 41 instances of "lugubrious," "lugubriously," or "lugubriousness" in Kakutani's work -- about two a year, on average. From Wordnik.com. [Lugubrious and Repetitive] Reference
They laughed until utterly exhausted, Quimby all the time keeping up his rotatory motion, with a face whose lugubriousness cannot be described. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
I just don't buy Twitter, texting and online lugubriousness to be a portal for narcissism - I can't imagine any narcissist getting his money's worth. From Wordnik.com. [i'm the piece of shit the world revolves around] Reference
Had the reader been present he would have recognized him instantly, despite his unaccustomed air of lugubriousness, as our old friend, Mr. Michael Grogan. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Now, Knappertsbusch's 1956 Rheingold is slow actually infinitesimally longer than Levine, but there isn't that same lugubriousness with Knappertsbusch as Levine. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagner Cube] Reference
In many families, the negativity, the self-obsession, and the lugubriousness are irritants, and because depression is physically inivisble, families often doubt that it is real, and blame the sufferer. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Solomon - An interview with author] Reference
Geoffrey Palmer raised lugubriousness to a high plane as Wendy Craig's inattentive husband, but I always just wanted to punch those kids (pre-Rodney Nicholas Lyndhurst with a posh voice, and his insufferable smarmy curly brother). From Wordnik.com. [Who's the daddy?: the greatest sitcom fathers] Reference
But he looked a fool, hulking himself in his lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
"Yes," answered the younger man with the proper lugubriousness of youth. From Wordnik.com. [First and Last] Reference
My father was born in St Helen's, so Lancastrian lugubriousness was my cradle-gift. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The irrational exuberance is again winning the tilt against rational lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Commentaries | Safehaven.com] Reference
This, combined with an unwonted lugubriousness of visage, made Daniel's aspect somewhat comical. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
For more information on how the fake iPad launched us into a deep state of lugubriousness, check out our. From Wordnik.com. [ZDNet Australia] Reference
We got instead effervescence, timidity and lugubriousness, with warm handshakes and a nice cup of tea to finish. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
His lugubriousness gets him the sack, whilst he vegetates through his private life thanks to the lack of a flat or woman's love. From Wordnik.com. [cafebabel.com] Reference
In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, "I'll make it all jolly.". From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
His lugubriousness first became a staple of late-night jokes, then a crutch of Washington reporters looking for punchlines and light features. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
In contrast to the lugubriousness presentation in the other film, Ford elides the purported Rutledge romance with a single, brilliant sequence. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories] Reference
The slow third movement is taken at a surprisingly brisk tempo, which helps rescue it from falling into lugubriousness, as is so often the case. From Wordnik.com. [digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews] Reference
Mr Darling describes himself as a roundhead in his Times interview this morning, so it may be that Cohen's world-weary lugubriousness cheered him up. From Wordnik.com. [Benedict Brogan's political blog] Reference
It is also an example of modern noir at its finest, as the gloomy Yorkshire moors serve as a powerful correlate to the disease-like lugubriousness displayed by most of the characters. From Wordnik.com. [Twitch] Reference
She was hardly sorry, she was certainly not glad; she envied the spontaneous tears of her stepsisters, and she found the lugubriousness of the occasion much alleviated by the presence of her stepbrother. From Wordnik.com. [The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing] Reference
It is very amusing to see the attempts which the would-be invalids make to lengthen their brief smiling faces into lugubriousness, and the sudden relaxation into naturalness when they are allowed a holiday. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
I discovered that Chekhov, instead of being a spinner of depressing lugubriousness, was in reality the progenitor of the poetic melancholy that led to the exquisite and gently insightful plays of Tennessee Williams. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Scene] Reference
Believe me, I thirst for this knack of lugubriousness. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, “I’ll make it all jolly.”. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
And Kakutani knows from ascendant lugubriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Lugubrious and Repetitive] Reference
Geoffrey Palmer raised lugubriousness to. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
And in the lugubriousness of one hour and 20. From Wordnik.com. [Lost - RWC Spectacularity] Reference
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