mournfulness

I'm glad they weren't, to be clear, because the implication lent more of a mournfulness to the whole passage both for the spy and for The Captain.

Played live under the big screen on Saturday at the Philadelphia Film Center, this grinding score occasionally lightens for moments of mellower mournfulness.

In a plaintive tweet that scored high on the mournfulness scale, the team said “it once was a bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ”

To a transporting song of the same name by the Malian vocalist Oumou Sangaré, the petite, expansive Meagan King and her gentle partner, Christopher Taylor, let the music’s warmth and mournfulness guide them.

My admiration for the excellence of the writing was tinged with mournfulness for a writer who deserved better in her lifetime.