mournfulness
Example Sentences
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These materialize in ways that lend unexpected mournfulness to some figures and, to others, a squeamishness that’ll make your skin crawl.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
In a plaintive tweet that scored high on the mournfulness scale, the team said “it once was a bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022
My admiration for the excellence of the writing was tinged with mournfulness for a writer who deserved better in her lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
He has a good ear for dialogue and a good sense for plot, and has kept a delicate balance between mournfulness and the excitement of investigation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
“But that part must not have worked so well. They all still suffer from that pesky ‘chronic mournfulness effect.’”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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