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brooding

noun as in dwelling

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Darbyshire's vocals gave the group a soulful edge, particularly on the brooding ballad Room In Your Heart.

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Wildflowers flashed like fireflies in the brooding jungle of “Floral Entrapment II,” which artist Ema Ri made by applying paint with their hands and nails.

This one too is about brooding men with an inner glow.

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Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

It feels exactly how you want a neighborhood French spot to feel: tin ceilings, butter-yellow walls, a dark wooden bar lined with regulars, some contemporary art depicting people drinking, brooding, smoking.

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