Sentences with word «morose»

Confession can be an acknowledgement of guilt or an exercise in self - justification, the difference being that the latter usually results in a compulsive need to repeat the story over and over in a kind of morose delectation not far removed from today's «tell - all» talk shows.

He appears to the latter as morose as if he were some hard - eyed, numb, monotonous kind of reptile.

It depicts the sadness of the boy in morose words

When the excitable Clio took a breath, her sister Thalia, the cheerful Muse of comedy who coteaches drama classes with Melpomene (the more morose Muse of tragedy), took a turn.

Regarding the novel, Luhrmann's movie gets the basics of plot and symbol right, but then again, it frames its telling as occurring within a mental institution where Carraway (Tobey Maguire), like Fitzgerald, suffers from morose alcoholism, anxiety, and other sundry neurasthenic ailments.

Sadly lost Peanut to a tumour, so both of us a bit morose a the moment.

Many of his works deal directly with morose themes worthy of memento mori, yet rather than expected macabre subject matter, they appear visually playful, rendered in seductive color palettes and a distinctive minimal visual language.

Once we get too morose about ourselves, it gets very difficult not to become quite depressed in our understanding of God.

I have been craving chicken noodle soup and have felt a little morose about not having a grain - free alternative.

The usually buoyant King became morose, and the winds that whipped about his aerie on the 67th floor of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center seemed to have a mocking whine.

Largely, it must be said, by some of their own morose supporters as much as by any crowing Corbynite.

He seemed to make little impression at the Stadium of Light where his apparent defeatist and morose attitude guided the Black Cats to a tame bottom placed finish.

Many conservatives indulged the sin of Schadenfreude (what in older moral manuals is known by the delightful phrase «morose delectation») upon Weakland's downfall, for he was the most conspicuous of the decreasing minority of unabashedly liberal bishops.

Unfortunately, Carrey is more of a distraction, especially as we constantly expect him to break his dour, morose expression at every turn for a visual gag or punchline.

Egoyan, as expected, has peppered Adoration with relentlessly morose figures whose behavior and motivations often stretch the very limits of credibility, though the superb work of the various actors (Speedman, especially) inevitably proves effective in infusing the broadly - drawn characters with a small degree of authenticity.

The major reveal is part of the fundamental flaw in the narrative that undermines all that has gone on before; it shifts the story from being a light - hearted and touching social commentary that sexual inhibitions are perfectly normal to a melodramatic and morose tale with daddy issues.

Such cringe - inducing antics are par for the course during Black Irish, a drismal drama rather reminiscent of Angela's Ashes, especially in terms of maintaining a relentlessly pessimistic and morose tone.

For me it was dark and morose at the separation of course and for at least a couple years after.

It wasn't that gameplay was fundamentally broken or anything (aside from making you switch to grenades, anyway — something Halo had made a one - button thing), but everything about Killzone came with this weirdly glum, morose feel that actively discouraged you progressing any further.

Most of the time he would wander around looking morose saying things that I couldn't quite understand.

Recovering from religion does NOT always have to be so morose.

Sure, we go through morose stages.

Instead of a «morose pile of limp leaves,» the options in Salad Samurai are main dishes.

Explaining things to my sons that morning had not been easy, and my own morose face was mirrored by those of my fellow New Yorkers on the subway ride into work.

And after Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the East Coast in October 2012 — one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — tweets analyzed through the Hedonometer revealed that Twitter users subsequently experienced one of the most morose months surrounding climate change discussion.

Free dating is also a convenient option for people who travel often and are often morose for want of company.

Everything sounds funnier when read in his voice, even the slightly morose musings on growing up gay.

thinly - veiled moralizing is ultimately undermined by that bummer of a development which, quite frankly, proves to be irreversibly morose.

Morose hipster Kathleen (Lili Taylor), an NYU philosophy student, experiences the ultimate existential... read more

Fischer has taken found objects and detritus in a predominantly morose palette of white, brown, black, and silver, and fashioned them into motorized sculptures that

Foreman, by contrast, was surly, sometimes almost morose as he shed the last of 30 pounds.

Some of you are too morose around here for my tastes even...

Instead of her cheerful self, she seemed morose and anxious.

Aaron van Erp's (° 1978, Veghel; lives and works in Eindhoven and Asuncion) morose humor is channeled into haunted paintings.

Who among us can't relate to the experiences of unlikable, morose Harvard graduates who feel overwhelmed by the fact that they have to be slightly less successful in life than they wanted?

He emitted a single morose laugh, emptied his glass in one swallow, and filled it again.

Yet the spirit of the song is neither self - indulgently morose nor falsely defiant.

But even my wife and daughter pleaded with me to hurry up and finish the book so I could finally drag myself out of my serious and morose mood.

During the press cycle for this album, Justin Vernon noted his departure from his signature morose style saying that «circling the same cycles emotionally just feels boring.»

But it is in rather bad taste, depressing and neurotically morose to go on about it.

But we are still five months away from the beginning of CSA season, and I was feeling somewhat morose as I pondered what type of salad to bring to a potluck dinner this past Saturday.

All we know about Kiffin at this point is that, while most big - name head coaches are far from media - friendly, his vinegar - over-honey style and generally morose, half - matured presence on camera made him perhaps the most disliked coach in college football.

In a panicked response to this slide and threat to Premier League status the appointment of the serially morose non-performer Mark Hughes surely bring the credibility of the much vaunted succession plan into serious question.

One such fan seemed to let loose his rather morose views on club chairman David Gold's competence, going on to label him with some x-rated words.

So to be writing today's blog with positive tones in my words is a nice change from the recent morose prose I've inflicted on you since the start of the year.

ALBANY — Housing advocates are frustrated and ethics watchdogs are positively morose.

Well, that's a kind of morose title isn't it?

Jonathan Glazer, who directed the wonderfully funny crime thriller «Sexy Beast» and the ridiculously morose Nicole Kidman vehicle «Birth,» is working very loosely from a well - known novel by Michel Faber.

Much like Out of the Furnace's depiction of life in the Rust Belt and Black Mass» vision of South Boston, Hostiles» stark portrayal of the Old West and morose sense of atmosphere are its greatest strengths.