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brooding

noun as in dwelling

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The Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre has been transformed into an adolescent hideaway, where music and literature are the only salves for alienated brooding.

He regularly signed on for dark, challenging roles and inhabited broken, brooding characters.

From Salon

“When you think of goth, you think of brooding. But we’re all just people who love the music. We’re embracing those musical roots but we add our own flavor to it.”

The Guardian called him the "master of the brooding silence", but Stamp's acting proved to have range as well as depth.

From BBC

It’s brooding, a little sticky and best eaten late at night in your slip dress.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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