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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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1 year, 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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2 years, 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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5 years, 1 month ago


perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria

—p.765 Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction) (751) by Mark Fisher
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6 years ago


perhaps already i've said too much on this lugubrious new year's eve, the goblets and demitasse cups piled so high as to obscure the faucet which drips

—p.35 by Mark Leyner
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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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7 years, 3 months ago


It seemed inappropriately lugubrious

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


bloated love doll, lugubrious, and eyelash-batting

—p.80 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 5 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, 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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1 year, 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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1 year, 5 months ago


escaping, abandoning his companions to that lugubrious assault

—p.461 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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2 years, 1 month 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
5 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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5 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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5 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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4 years, 9 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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4 years, 9 months ago