brooding
Example Sentences
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He was awkward, brooding and uneasy outside his eccentric family.
Robert Duvall was a distinguished and prolific screen actor who lent a brooding intensity and grizzled authority to seven decades of American film-making.
From BBC
“Heathcliff was brooding but she said, ‘What if he wasn’t brooding?’
From Los Angeles Times
On a surface level, I think Brontë created an archetype that has lived on — the brooding, possessive self-made man type.
From Los Angeles Times
Dexter went from sheltered son of a doctor to brooding child hipster who left home early to tour with big bands.
From Los Angeles Times
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