brooding
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The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“He believed that he had failed as a son, a man, a writer,” someone observes of the dark, brooding, recessive and incandescently weird Franz Kafka in “Franz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A dull yellow light peeks through a brooding sky looming over rolling Southern California hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
And of course the dipping chocolate, thick and hot, not terribly sweet, but brooding and smoky.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
A brooding sense of disaster hung over the village that night.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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