umbrous

The truffle’s texture is both waxy and powdery, while the taste, beneath the tannins, has an umbrous sweetness, delicious and strange.

Van Gogh’s muscular stabs and dense ponds of paint were the antidote to academic art, requiring no need for visual tutorials: a rush of radiance for the masses toiling in their umbrous slog.

Landscapes of writing: a glacial blue and white version next to another of an umbrous brown.

Harris, a master of umbrous what-ifs, is at his best here.

Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned.