How To Use lugubrious In A Sentence
- “Come and give me le juicy whomping kiss I deserve,” all poured forth in a lugubrious French accent. Healer
- As with other great conductors this young maestro senses, seizes on and communicates every scintilla of its pastoral joy, lugubrious shtetl memory, piquant nostalgia and sky-touching exhilaration, which is not to say that he slights delicacy or subtlety. Donna Perlmutter: Dudamel Begins New Era at L.A. Philharmonic
- It is stripped down chinoiserie, all wood and fretting, strictly rectilinear, lugubrious.
- He heaved a great sigh, and said in lugubrious tones: The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
- In Pollack's case, I consider Out of Africa to be Oscar bait, critics bait, the kind of turgid lugubrious epic that comes along every so often and which just isn't really very good. Sydney Pollack
- They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious recitative. Alec Forbes of Howglen
- He has this rather lugubrious expression and a kind of lethargy that makes you wonder if he finds it a bit of a pain to keep himself alive by breathing in and out.
- Something in the vibration of that deep, pompous tone he adopts - the lugubrious, narcissistic fake gravity - grates on me.
- A Southern correspondent sends the following incident from real life, which illustrates the well-known negro fondness for so-called lugubrious festivals: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
- The actor adores pranks, especially the ones that require a straight face and his familiar lugubrious delivery.