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

It was a very ordinary tale, and its dolefulness was relieved by the old man's delight at finding people who could talk to him like Christians.

From The House of Martha by Stockton, Frank Richard

There is a lot of life that is wrong, and any day horrid, hurting things may pop up, but that doesn't mean you've got to sit down and make a bosom friend of dolefulness.

From Kitty Canary by Bosher, Kate Langley