brooding

Even at its most brooding, “Gemini” is enlivened by amusing wordplay and Heynderickx’s wry delivery.

David Rooney was less favourable about Mescal's performance and called it "a tad flat at times" with his emotional range "sticking mostly to the same notes of brooding intensity and simmering rage".

Granted, “Out of Time’s” earworm “Shiny Happy People” is gratingly banal, but the album also features spoken-word passages, brooding bass lines and ghostly steel-guitar drone.

His brooding, rough-hewn features were recognizable worldwide, his name a rallying cry from South America to the Vatican.

While some see Heathcliff as the brooding romantic hero, he is also violent, abusive and manipulative.