broody
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The camera takes time to adore the young protagonists, to admire their excellent surfaces, to look them straight in their moody, broody, serious eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Like, they think he’s moody and broody, but also brilliant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
He thinks spending time around babies will make me broody.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Based on the books of Ann Cleeves, whose work is also the basis for the even moodier, broodier series “Shetland,” “Vera” is a cerebral, as opposed to violent or troubling, crime drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
But even so, some of the broodier sections failed to connect with a festival audience who just wanted to hear the hits.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
When asked if "The Batman" will be a "darker, broodier" entry, Serkis said, "I would say that's not far from the truth."
From Salon ● May 10, 2020
“Treme,” created by the same team that made “The Wire,” is broodier than “Memphis Beat” and far more ambitious, but it is also a lot less focused and digestible.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2010
Strings, central to the album’s arrangements, swell sweetly, but the song’s dominant motif is a muted, desultory piano figure that suggests Cat Power at her broodiest.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
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