mournfulness
Example Sentences
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These materialize in ways that lend unexpected mournfulness to some figures and, to others, a squeamishness that’ll make your skin crawl.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
In a plaintive tweet that scored high on the mournfulness scale, the team said “it once was a bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ”
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2022
To a transporting song of the same name by the Malian vocalist Oumou Sangaré, the petite, expansive Meagan King and her gentle partner, Christopher Taylor, let the music’s warmth and mournfulness guide them.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2022
My admiration for the excellence of the writing was tinged with mournfulness for a writer who deserved better in her lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022
“But that part must not have worked so well. They all still suffer from that pesky ‘chronic mournfulness effect.’”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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