mournfulness
Example Sentences
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I'm glad they weren't, to be clear, because the implication lent more of a mournfulness to the whole passage both for the spy and for The Captain.
From Salon • May 27, 2024
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
There’s a surprising amount of death in Horizon Zero Dawn, not just NPCs but friends, allies and family, and a deeper mournfulness as you piece through the wreckage of human society.
From The Verge • Dec. 14, 2020
There’s plenty of humor, but many more moments of mournfulness and longing related to the strain of living under constant siege from the Germans’ relentless Blitz.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2017
“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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