dolefulness

Example Sentences

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It looked like a snow angel, but also like a mummy — an image of both levity and dolefulness, neither all good nor all bad.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

But in “The Night Stages” it arrives late, and Ms. Urquhart’s unremitting dolefulness has already deadened our nerve endings to the heartache she wants to conjure.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2015

Where the network’s “True Detective” occasionally broke its dolefulness with the slyest, philosophically artful wink at an audience riveted by its mystery, “The Leftovers” grafts more unhappiness onto unhappiness.

From Washington Post

He confided to me privately that he feared his trousers would not last such jolting many days; but his dolefulness, like a bit of minor in a sparkling melody, only made our jollity more radiant.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Dufferin, Lord

The patient Pauline, who had packed everything and arranged everything, and borne with her mistress's dolefulness all day long, began to yawn piteously.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)