How To Use Lugubrious In A Sentence
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“Come and give me le juicy whomping kiss I deserve,” all poured forth in a lugubrious French accent.
Healer
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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
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It is stripped down chinoiserie, all wood and fretting, strictly rectilinear, lugubrious.
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He heaved a great sigh, and said in lugubrious tones:
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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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
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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
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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.
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Something in the vibration of that deep, pompous tone he adopts - the lugubrious, narcissistic fake gravity - grates on me.
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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
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The actor adores pranks, especially the ones that require a straight face and his familiar lugubrious delivery.
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‘I was a unique talent,’ says John, in lugubrious tones.
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We watched as snorkeler after snorkeler harassed the lugubrious manatees.
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But it is precisely that wonky smile, lugubrious air and bitter chocolate voice that pierces the hearts of the toughest ball-breaking women of my acquaintance.
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Media Mob reader Peter Van Allen writes in to point out the recurring pattern: Besides McCarthy and Irving, Kakutani has applied the "lugubrious" label to Graham Swift, Don DeLillo, Mark Helprin, J.M. Coetzee and many more.
Lugubrious and Repetitive
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The protest, from my perspective, was in large part a snobbish dismissal of Johnson by the Eastern establishment; Cambridge professors and Manhattan lawyers and their guitar-strumming children thought they could run the country and the world better than this lugubrious bohunk from Texas.
On Not Being a Dove
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I think it's better to be a little bit humorous, not just lugubrious if you can help it.
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He saw the two whale-boats land on the beach, and the sick, on stretchers or pick-a-back, groaning and wailing, go by in lugubrious procession.
Chapter 3
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For a while it became the archetypal maudlin pub drinking song: imagine it lugubriously belted out at closing time with a skinful of beer lubricating every voice.
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The result is fascinating, but the text is so dense with information that it threatens to be heavy and lugubrious.
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I think it's better to be a little bit humorous, not just lugubrious if you can help it.
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And so my evening ended with the lugubrious sight and sound, fortunately unseen and unheard, of a chubby old poet singing along to a faltering self-accompaniment, working through a few old style songs.
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When asked by the ringman what that act signified, he drawled out, in lugubrious tones, "Soldier eating Christmas dinner!
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
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At last a man as fat as a tub and as sequacious as a child wobbled toward this woman, 'Four'; but, according to the feelings of the god, Nawin, that drenched the ground that they stood upon lugubriously, the two were not meant to stand together.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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Just as well that he's arranged his own party: his lugubrious downer of a dad has forgotten what day it is.
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There was nothing of triumph about his lugubrious, almost shamefaced expression.
THE LAST RAVEN
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How else to explain the Oscar triumphs of Gladiator, Out of Africa, and the legendarily lugubrious 1968 musical Oliver!?
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Lady Teazle and Mrs. Oakley were certainly no exceptions to this experience of a cold fit of absolute incapacity with which I received every new part appointed me, and my studying of them might have been called lugubrious, whatever my subsequent performance of them may have been.
Records of a Girlhood
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The round-shouldered promoter spent the morning wandering about looking lugubrious.
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But before she had time to decide which of the unlively men, loitering round the carriages or helping stout old dowagers up slim iron ladders, was sufficiently lugubrious to be identified as the martyr of the ballot-box, she was absorbed by a tall, masterful figure, whose face had the radiance of easeful success, and whose hands were clapping at some nuance of style which had escaped the palms of the great circular mob.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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At dawn, a fat ugly highveld cloud rolled across the ground, and for the rest of the day, it sat lugubriously overhead, sniffling away to itself.
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But come on - he can be so longwinded, lugubrious, and self-indulgent.
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The millions of lives lost - to disease, revolt, and suicide - in the months at sea between Dahomey and the plantations of the New World need picturing and sorrow songs more than a lugubrious poeticizing of hyena gods.
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The furniture is of the grandest and displayed in rooms lined with panelling and tapestries - dim, because things fade in bright light, but for that reason rather lugubrious.
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Who will point out to Kakutani that she's overused 'lugubrious'?
Lugubrious and Repetitive
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his long face lugubriously reflecting a hidden and unexpressed compassion
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In some of the tributes I've found on the web, the word "lugubrious" kept popping up: "excessively mournful".
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A tall, lugubrious man wearing what looked suspiciously like a parka, he at first spoke so quietly nobody could hear.
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Clara Ellis, a rather lugubrious individual, who had been put on the committee because she was a "prod" in "English lit.," and not because she had the least bit of executive ability.
Betty Wales Senior
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Director Reid Davis and his cast turn in a decent effort, but this adaptation is just a bit more stageworthy than the bulk of lugubrious versions that melodramatize Chekhov.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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One kind of misbegotten movie derided by C. B.'s possee has gotta be George Cukor's lugubrious My Fair Lady, also shown on TCM this weekend.
View from the Northern Border
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They range from the unapologetically avant-garde ( "Foot Under Foot," which opens the session), to the pungent and fractured ( "Skitter In") to the affirmingly lugubrious ( "The Sun at Midnight").
What's Elliptical Is New Again
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It has a lugubrious pace and doesn't entirely convince but there are some sharp lines, an unsentimental view of big city politics and Pacino's rich performance.
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The lugubrious Scouser does his best, but who can blame him for that hangdog expression, with Coventry City languishing in the wrong half of the table and the shares that once made him a multi-millionaire delisted by the Stock Exchange?
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People ate lugubrious meals around the waterfalls, their faces green with marine sorrow.
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While the penultimate anti-whaling lament, The Last Leviathan, proves somewhat lugubrious, the album closes on a note of affirmation with the simple but affecting love song Running Home.
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He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.
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One will certainly be forgiven for harboring similar reservations about the religious tradition that grew up around this lugubrious symbol.
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He remembered the merchant, long, lanky, and lugubrious of countenance.
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The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission.
Maruja
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A large, disapproving looking woman of mature years accompanied by a lugubrious Schnauzer - both clad in sleeveless knitted jerkins - had materialised on the lawn.
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Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor.
The Big Guy
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The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.
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‘I think of myself as pretty much an undiscovered genius,’ quips the lugubrious 47-year-old.
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An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
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I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy.
My Discovery of England
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I toured the small cemetery with its sad tombstone inscriptions, and then took the short boat trip back to Ile Royale, where a lugubrious guide pointed out the almond tree under which the guillotine used to stand.
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The taller of the two strangers, who had been looking lugubrious, brightened up.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Well, last night our talk turned on lugubrious subjects, and Mr. Pike, wicked old man that he is, descanted on the wickedness of the world and on the wickedness of the man who had murdered Captain
CHAPTER XXIV
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The mood in their haunted honky-tonk runs from lugubrious laments to boisterous boogies, drawing in touches of ragtime, country, blues and cabaret.
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George III was a lugubriously unprogressive monarch roused by Fox's licentiousness; Pitt was the dreary juvenile hero of our new foreign secretary; neither would have expected to find the liberal and modern Adonis at their side.
The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance
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All you have to do is look at the account executive sitting across your desk (the fellow with the lugubrious face and the calf-like eyes), and say ‘Yes!’
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In the early hours of that day a knot of women, one of them beating a drum, others lugubriously chanting _du pain, du pain_, bread, bread, appeared in the streets of Paris.
The French Revolution A Short History
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The performances are as sharp as a tack, with Sergent and Blackburn quite brilliant as the ‘cynical pustule’ Pump and the laconically lugubrious Smith.
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At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century.
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A certain lugubrious yarn, "My Graves," was my masterpiece.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.
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One element in the puzzling Aberdeen which has changed, however, is the boss who, while still displaying the same lugubrious demeanour, has learned several savage lessons about the Premier League.
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The first time I had a Vietnamese fresh roll, it ruined the lugubrious, cabbagy egg roll for me forever.
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Everything _inside_ the house limp, languid, and lugubrious; the fires are sulky and won't burn; the maids are sulkier still.
Nearly Lost but Dearly Won
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Which makes Paradise Lost the ideal listen for those among you who happen to like the more lugubrious moments of Depeche Mode, or Metallica, or, preferably, both.
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He spoke in sentences that clocked in at a grade-school level, the speed of delivery was lugubrious, or perhaps aimed at the part of the audience that processes the occasional polysyllable rather slowly.
Discourse.net: The Speeches
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Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious.
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You click on the word "lugubrious" and it gives you a dictionary definition, or the word "Taj Mahal" and it shows you a jpg picture.
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