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The memo did not name Sole, Kramer and Galván, but each confirmed their departures in mournful and, at times, critical notes on social media.

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Mr. Winter brings to this crucial moment a sense of mournful confusion and despair that recurs throughout.

Bobby Krlic’s mournful score is alternately dreamy and eerie, the instrumental music abruptly cutting out in the middle of a hypnotic passage.

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The squash, cherimoya and mamey incongruously piled in the lower right corner recall the “strange fruit” of the mournful Abel Meeropol lynching song.

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Kirk’s death has triggered a range of reactions, much of it mournful sympathy for the 31-year-old activist and his family.

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