saturnine
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Slatkin noted that the recording, released in 1955, didn’t sell well, probably thanks to the album cover’s saturnine painting of a composer that few would recognize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025
Cool-kid chefs turning local bounty into Michelin-worthy dishes, an artisan whisky boom and a clutch of stylish hotels have helped Scotland shrug off its saturnine image and rebrand as a misty, moody mecca.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
But even in that calm gloom, my eyes slowly acclimated to the 14 grandly saturnine paintings, made by Mark Rothko in the late 1960s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
The saturnine darkness of Connery answers the strangeness and anxieties in Tippi Hedren’s mysterious Marnie.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2020
Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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