Sentences with word «glumness»

Bardem never changes expression at all: Whatever he's saying comes out with a dispassionate, hangdog glumness.

Steeped in an ultra-indie glumness that makes for a very dour journey, William Maher's Sleepwalking is the kind of mumbly, bleak, rural - set melodrama that actors and festival directors love and that audiences avoid in droves.

The precious moments of humour Grint provides to counter the abundance of relentless glumness is like Gatorade in the Sahara.

The illegitimate child is the spawn of her unseen uncle, an incident that explains the young woman's distance from her family, abandonment of her education, and general glumness.

Whatever energy «Vatel» has derives from Mr. Depardieu's robust glumness and his peasant empathy.

The films have long struggled in endless identity crises, from Pierce Brosnan's swarthy unfulfilled promise to current star Daniel Craig's over-corrective, Nolan - era glumness.

With an edgily existential glumness softened by whimsy, Shrigley's off - beat, crudely drawn animations can be both amusing and affecting.

All the glumness seems justified.

Embracing a particular level of levity or glumness has been key to the financial, or at least critical, success of several summer blockbusters over the last few years (the self - deprecating role of Tom Cruise in last year's Edge of Tomorrow, or the dark morbidity of David Yates» sixth installment in the Harry Potter franchise, Half - Blood Prince, matching the dour bleakness of the source material).