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(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal

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lugubriousness
lugubrious



The funeral march, slow and lugubrious

—p.148 by Charlie Kaufman
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3 months ago


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

—p.41 by Maggie Nelson
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1 year, 11 months ago


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

—p.16 Notes on a Suicide (13) missing author
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4 years, 1 month ago


perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria

—p.765 Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction) (751) by Mark Fisher
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4 years, 11 months ago


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

—p.28 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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6 years, 3 months ago


It seemed inappropriately lugubrious

—p.16 Introduction (1) by Bryan A. Garner
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6 years, 3 months ago


bloated love doll, lugubrious, and eyelash-batting

—p.80 by David Foster Wallace
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6 years, 5 months ago


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

—p.291 This Planet Is Not Yours to Rule (291) by A S Hamrah
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4 months, 2 weeks ago

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.

—p.92 One Word: Authenticity! (85) by A S Hamrah
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4 months, 2 weeks ago


escaping, abandoning his companions to that lugubrious assault

—p.461 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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1 year ago


with its lugubrious pose

I always think this means drunken or something lol

—p.198 Poetry and Terror: Some Notes on Coming to Jakarta (191) by Robert Hass
strange
4 years ago


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

—p.12 Wall of Sound (6) missing author
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4 years, 8 months ago


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

—p.147 On Oscar Movies (143) by A S Hamrah
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4 years ago


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

—p.188 On recent film (179) by A S Hamrah
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3 years, 8 months ago

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

—p.140 What Good Is Love? (139) missing author
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3 years, 8 months ago