The funeral march, slow and lugubrious

The song features Cohen at his most lugubrious and opaque, which is saying a lot

Where so many people are poor and without private transport, the RER is the only way to come and go – and it has acquired a lugubrious grip over all existence

perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria

he Orthodox Church propagates its lugubrious and ornate moralism – against which chafe dissenting sects, minorities, sexual dissidents in the cities’ queer hinterlands, radicals.

It seemed inappropriately lugubrious

bloated love doll, lugubrious, and eyelash-batting

The movie is lugubrious, like a Chekhov play about comedians in Los Angeles, a Chekhov play with hundreds of dick jokes, in which Jimmy Fallon might show up in a cameo as himself

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema, art-directed for a new era of violent self-pity, economic decline, and racial appropriation.

escaping, abandoning his companions to that lugubrious assault

with its lugubrious pose

Your local café’s barista may literally depend on Bon Iver’s reedy lugubriousness to palliate a dreary job as you depend on coffee

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema

the lugubrious interviewee America got to know from his films in the 1960s

Something lugubrious and ardent. He’s feeling awfully hard done by and sorry for himself