How To Use Morose In A Sentence

In September, the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 16 and 24 hovered morosely at 18.1 percent, nearly double the national average for that month. Balancing the recession on the backs of the young « Dating Jesus
But each time, the spells of euphoria passed as quickly as they came and he would be morose.
To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
An uncompromising and rigid republican, he was called by Clarendon ‘an absurd bold man’, and by Ludlow, who knew him well, ‘a man of a disobliging carriage, sour and morose of temper’.

His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.
But you have a sombre, morose side which can mean you going for darker colours and shades.
Now he was silently, morosely drunk and, as the evenings progressed , soddenly drunk.
Most of them are sipping coffee, or reading newspapers, or chewing morosely on tough bread.
Regular meals keep the blood sugar level at a normal high, and prevents the terrible let down feeling that can result in moroseness, negativism, and sometimes even anger. Archive 2007-04-01
The tender moments could not compensate for the detachment and morose oversensitivity. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe “morosely” or “gloomily” would fit in better. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
But the morose teenager could not see that he was doing anything wrong or illegal.
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
There are serious obstacles ahead but reasons to be cheerful, too, or at least a bit less morose. Times, Sunday Times
He looks rather morose when I say this. Times, Sunday Times
This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester.
Some people become morose and depressed when they first retire.
He must be a bit morose about it. Times, Sunday Times
The reassuring factor in all this is Ottway, who was the company's hired killer: Before the crash, he had spent his days shooting predators around the perimeter of the refinery, and morosely obsessing about the woman he lost. 'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act
Is he always a bit morose? Times, Sunday Times
Part of me being all morose is that I am essentially still on bed rest, week two. Tew's Day!
A morose layer of low grey scud clouds tumbled along before a pushy wind. FAMILY BLESSINGS
Bharat's character remains that of a confused young man, whose mental meanderings border on the morose.
Morose Michell wins the wet blanket award.
Your Diogenes was a blockhead," said Ivan Dmitritch morosely. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
I am confident that his sleep was stupefied and dreamless, and that he awoke next day merely to heaviness and moroseness, and that if he lives to-day he does not remember that night, so passing was it as an incident. Chapter 4
He seems slightly morose, but is eating and drinking normally. Times, Sunday Times
She wrapped the blankets more tightly around herself, staring morosely out the open, shutterless window of the hayloft where she slept.
Sensitive, fearful, and morose, he would not go to Europe to be known as the hunchback husband of Lajeunesse, the great singer. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
I've progressively grown to abhor her habitual moroseness.
Morose Michell wins the wet blanket award.
Is he always a bit morose? Times, Sunday Times
Although the police team are not exactly how I had imagined from the books, the actor playing Erlunder was convincing in the role, really inhabiting the morose detective's skin and with the requisite intense focus. Watching the film Jar City
With perhaps the exception of Steven Spielberg's "Munich," which dovetails nicely in morose spirit and disturbing milieu, very few movies about the 1970s (that weren't actually made in the 1970s) look and feel as perfect as "Carlos" does. TV Preview: Sundance Channel's 5 1/2-hour biopic 'Carlos'
It is not beyond possibility that Wenger's side will be eliminated at the Stadio Friuli next Wednesday, but the moroseness being expressed wilfully ignores the impact of the away goal that Arsenal should be capable of scoring in Italy. Amid the gloom, much to cheer in Arsenal's scrambled win over Udinese | Kevin McCarra
‘No, we can't,’ Zoë sighed, gazing morosely into the water.
Earnshaw sat, morose as usual, at the chimney - corner.
The morose Mitchells wins the wet blanket award.
Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray.
I said morosely and mumbling to myself more than her… ‘I'm going to be 40 this year’.
He was a silent, rather sullen man, and you felt that his affability was a duty that he imposed upon himself Christianly; he was by nature reserved and even morose. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
He must be a bit morose about it. Times, Sunday Times
Then Bartlett’s eyes strayed to the opposite end of the defense table where Barney Haskell was sitting, his expression morose, his hands supporting his head. LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART
Sean Penn - lined, morose and world-weary - is outstanding as a federal agent assigned to to protect her.
Then, feeling a bit morose and at a loose end, I headed for the bar.
Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump.
So certain was I that I asked the mate, who answered morosely: CHAPTER II
The wife is an old coquette, that is always hankering after the diversions of the town; the husband a morose rustick, that frowns and frets at the name of it. The Coverley Papers
He sensed she was feeling very morose today, and he was sure that the fact that her mother was coming back wasn't all that there was to it.
All are female - apart from me, and a morose younger man with cropped hair.
Spare, morose, introspective, mordant baritone balladry has no part to play here. Times, Sunday Times
He must be a bit morose about it. Times, Sunday Times
He became insular, emotionally dead, passionless and morose.
At times, I'm sitting here, feeling morose and depressed or whatever - not feeling bright and chipper - and hiding that in conversations online with smilies and jokes and lighthearted chitchat.
Except there is a very sour, very morose and desperate essence in his interpretation.
It is the morose look, the harsh expression, the tone of irritation and fretfulness which is so unpopular in school. The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young
He became morose and silent; and his only occupation consisted in urging the speed of the postilions, as if he were going to save the life of some one he held dear.
Just what's needed when everybody is feeling morose and downhearted about the economic situation.
A morose mood of deep melancholy has descended upon me this afternoon.
The real estate agent was gloomy, with a defeated slouch, and he shuffled us morosely through the overpriced apartment that all of us knew we would not rent. Day of Honey
An irritated glare adorned his otherwise striking face, dark and morose and very, very angry.
As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I toyed morosely with the idea that it had been worse this way - that the girls had come back and then left again, rather than just staying away.
And yet, you feel, he is unhappy with the popular image of him as a morose and stern man.
There are serious obstacles ahead but reasons to be cheerful, too, or at least a bit less morose. Times, Sunday Times
He stood on his own, looking morose as usual.
He drew more and more within himself, became morose, and brooded much. CHAPTER XXVI
I mean, there's frustration on the album, obviously, and then there's a song like "Crash And Burn," which I wouldn't call morose, but it's certainly a somber song. Mike Ragogna: Laughing Down Crying: A Conversation with Daryl Hall, Plus "Raw African-American Gospel" and Chadwick Stokes Exclusives
Not if the little rapscallion sees...' Hooch tipped his head, morosely, towards the approaching police vehicle. BEHINDLINGS
Have years of negative hype made him weary and morose?
As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Without going into too much detail, Mr. Skeffington is the story of an orphaned but popular young New York debutante and her morose brother, who squanders their fortune.
He came to cheer her up and invariably ended morosely confiding his marital miseries. AN OLDER WOMAN
The morose Mitchells wins the wet blanket award.
The publicity didn't make him morose or unhappy?
That voice is in fine fettle, Ry Cooder guests on the title track, and Taylor's morose version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was an American hit post-September 11.
His moroseness changed to a deep-seated melancholy. CHAPTER XXXII
As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Last night I spent relaxing on the couch and trying to shake off my morose mood, and I think it worked.
If you feel morose because .500 NE is not enough for you, there is a sidelock 88B called the Jumbo which is chambered for that cartridge and for the .577 and .600 NE. One More Round of SCI
Swann spends nine months convalescing morosely, only snapping out of it when his housekeeper, played with tight-lipped understatement by Sarah Lancashire, buys him a camera.
I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous, that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations. VIII. English Traits. Character
Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump.
Too long had he cultivated reticence, aloofness, and moroseness. The Love-Master
Having finished the satisfying of his own inward man; and commenced the indulgence of adding his contribution to the general nicotian pregnated atmosphere, while proceeding about his vocation, he replied to William's various questions with a wonderful alacrity and volubility, strangely contrasting with the taciturn moroseness which had appeared to be his usual manner. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
He watched her morosely and without intention of speaking, till he saw her take a rifle from the stand, examine the magazine, and start for the door. Chapter 9
I was concerned I'd slip into a mass of moroseness, but that hasn't happened as yet.
One elderly man sat morosely at the bar.
Despite the moroseness of the music, the people who made it could be a fun bunch. The Seattle Sound
Instead of the lithe enthusiast with flaming eyes he saw a heavily built man with blunted features, wearing powerful horn spectacles, his expression morose, his movements ungainly. The Altar Steps
Scotch the gloomy talk of a Japan-style Lost Decade in which we sink into decline and marinate morosely there for years. Goldman's Cynical Assurances Notwithstanding, The Decade is Lost Already
Uncomfortable with his sudden moroseness, Caitlin decided it was time to leave and she rose from the chair.
If you feel morose because .500 NE is not enough for you, there is a sidelock 88B called the Jumbo which is chambered for that cartridge and for the .577 and .600 NE. One More Round of SCI
His morose delivery makes you uncertain whether you are supposed to laugh or cry.
I now forget the initial inspiration for the poem, but its not hard to imagine that I had recently read some morose poem and thought it a bit overwrought.
Late in life, Wren morosely described his ultimate profession of architecture as ‘rubbish’.
And I thought it out in camp, silent, morose, while the children squabbled about me unnoticed, and while Arunga, my mate-woman, vainly scolded me and urged me to go hunting for more meat for the many of us. Chapter 21
But to be honest, they all look the same to me, conceited and morose.
Instead of getting jollier as she drank, G became more & more gloomy & morose. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
I am confident that his sleep was stupefied and dreamless, and that he awoke next day merely to heaviness and moroseness, and that if he lives to-day he does not remember that night, so passing was it as an incident. Chapter 4
Durk of the Farlain was known as a morose, solitary man. The Hawk Eternal
he fell morosely on the bed
He must have noticed her trepidation, because he veered from the moroseness of the topic.
He was a hard-faced man of sixty-two, sullen and morose in an old flying jacket and tweed cap, a grey stubble covering his chin. CONFESSIONAL
He was proud, morose, and atrabilious; he rarely answered letters; he showed contempt for all who differed from his views and reacted violently to criticism.
But you have a sombre, morose side which can mean you going for darker colours and shades.
He looks rather morose when I say this. Times, Sunday Times
There is a thin line between Schadenfreude, which I take to be measured satisfaction in the discomfiture of opponents, and the sin of morose delectation.
In contrast to the morose, mumbly heroine of Precious, Sidibe's own personality got to shine as she collected her trophy: that of a cheerful, chipmunk-voiced young woman whose Hollywood dreams are coming true. 'Precious' dominates Spirit Awards with 5 prizes
A morose mood of deep melancholy has descended upon me this afternoon.
In order to not get caught up in overpowering emotion, one must make it a point to avoid what gets one riled up: “I avoid like the plague morose men of gloomy complexions, and I do not engage in any discussion which I cannot treat without self-interest or emotion, unless compelled to do so by duty.” Calm, Cool and Collected « So Many Books
Furthermore, he points out morosely, we probably shouldn't try: introspection correlates positively with depression.
Gwyndaf M Hughes, one of the founders of the Welsh Monster Raving Loony Christian Party writes in to tell us how crap all the other parties are, and how voting for a return to a Bible-bashing tea-total nation of morose killjoy whingers is a good thing. Archive 2007-04-01
One professes to being nearly there, the other wallows in almost morose reflection that there is considerable effort required yet to haul him from his present fankle.
Behaviour changes which might point to problems of this nature include spending a lot more time on the Internet than usual, becoming withdrawn and antisocial, or guarded and morose.
Debbie sang and danced and impersonated Shirley Temple like I did, but she was thin and bubbly and I was fat and morose, so you do the math. Roseanne Archy
I don't recall him expressing "moroseness" over the 4,000+ dead Americans, 20, 000+ maimed Americans, and 600, 000 thousand dead Iraqis in the war for which he relentlessly propagandized. Bart Motes: W. is not Batman
Long since, as one feature of his developing moroseness, he had ceased from barking. CHAPTER XXX
An irritated glare adorned his otherwise striking face, dark and morose and very, very angry.
He became morose and silent.
They stand there, glum and gloomy, surrounded by Raphaels, Bronzinos and Goyas, staring morosely at the carpet or up at the ceiling, trying to pay attention to the preening weenie on the art phone. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
I got fed up with people in America thinking that my music is morose and depressing and all that.
And one day I might get as morose as him, and might need someone to irritate.
But to be honest, they all look the same to me, conceited and morose.
The third album by this five-year-old U.K. act has a sweet but thorny simplicity all its own, morose at times and dramatic elsewhere, with large doses of murky tenderness that skillfully side-steps syrupy slop.
In the latter days he appeared morose and worried.
He was morose to all that stood in awe of him, and caressed all such as accosted him with familiarity .... The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
On the short haul home, the pilot seemed preoccupied and morose. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
His morose delivery makes you uncertain whether you are supposed to laugh or cry.
I've learned better... "He looked with morose weariness down at his right foot, crossed across his left. AN OLDER WOMAN
He had a beautiful singing voice and a sharp sense of humour, but was also a morose weekend drunk.
Quite lately -- yesterday or the day before -- his mother had spoken to him, gently but very seriously, about what she called the morose and savage fits which would bring misery upon him if he did not set himself earnestly to overcome them. The Talking Horse And Other Tales
The men were not by any means "downhearted," and would rather have died than admit that they were depressed, but the brightness was all rubbed off, and a moroseness, "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
There are serious obstacles ahead but reasons to be cheerful, too, or at least a bit less morose. Times, Sunday Times
The volatility and the moroseness within rise up repeatedly out of an uncontrollable inner conviction that the world stands ready to humiliate him.
These cloddish white appropriations of hip-hop, drum ‘n’ bass and dancehall are dis-spiritingly, missing-the-point funkless and morosely male.
Is he always a bit morose? Times, Sunday Times
Just what's needed when everybody is feeling morose and downhearted about the economic situation.
At last an end to blokes idling morosely in Monsoon while the women they are browsing with compare a succession of near identical burgundy velvet.
No I have not turned a millionaire overnight, I did not get a double promotion, my life is no less messier than what it was a few days back and I am still the sulky, morose chap you met around the corner yesterday.
a morose and unsociable manner
It's a very austere movie, filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
I sit in Cafe 1001, eating a crispy bacon ciabatta and reading Time Out, and this is when I start feeling morose.
Some one of them giggled, but the remainder regarded her in morose and intense silence. Chapter 10
A light rap on the partition wall drew her out of her morose thoughts.
He had a beautiful singing voice and a sharp sense of humour, but was also a morose weekend drunk.
Their moroseness was a prelude to what was to follow. American Prisoners of the Revolution
His lyrics have grown less morose and more philosophical, and he sings them with newfound expressiveness.
From a laudable desire to assert the dignity of his theme, Procopius defends the soldiers of his own time against the morose critics, who confined that respectable name to the heavy-armed warriors of antiquity, and maliciously observed, that the word archer is introduced by Homer 8 as a term of contempt. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He looks rather morose when I say this. Times, Sunday Times
Not without its playfulness and deadpan jokes, the uprooted Malay setting serves for a far more morose, empty and searching film, one whose suffusion with the dripping evening heat, lumberingly slow bodily movement, and general languor serve out the dance between the immigrants in a kind of humid, sorrowful slow motion. GreenCine Daily: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone.
Was a political career, he muttered morosely, really the way to spend one's life?
His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
A morose layer of low grey scud clouds tumbled along before a pushy wind. FAMILY BLESSINGS

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