dolorous

• “Don't you? it can't be helped then!" replied he in dolorous resignation: then, with a peculiar half smile, he added, "But never mind; I imagine the squire has more to apologize for than I," and left the cottage.”

  Agnes Grey

• “His expression was dolorous, I guess because he’d wanted to get rid of me.”

  Simon & Schuster: Haunted Honeymoon

• “But, Nabokov being Nabokov, what clinches it for me is that dismal haze — which could equally be described as a dolorous haze or you see where I’m going with this as a Dolores Haze.”

  Lolita’s Ancestor - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Throughout what has been a dolorous summer in the Haitian capital, the image of the Caribbean nation's new president has gazed out at passersby from billboards and murals affixed to walls that did not topple during the country's apocalyptic January 2010 earthquake.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer

• “If you removed the ultimate object – for one woman, a novel, for another, a home so perfectly created and maintained that nothing rank or dolorous could ever take root there – you had, essentially, the same effort.”

  The Guardian: Virginia Woolf, my mother and me

• “Even if it's a sad thing, you want to get the essence of the most dolorous phrases and connect them in some way, and so in that way try to perfect something.”

  The Guardian: On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft

• “In Puccini's dolorous "Crisantemi," the sense of world-weary detachment was not completely apt, the suffering held at a distance.”

  The Washington Post: Music review: The Quatuor Debussy with Katherine Chi at Library of Congress

• “You almost feel bad for them, those dolorous Madonnas who look as though their babies have just passed wind but they're trying to hold it together for the picture.”

  The Washington Post: Brilliant, Google Art Project! The only bad thing about museums is museums!

• “And in this dolorous statistical parade, no number is quite so central to public life as the gross domestic product.”

  Misleading Indicator

• “Has it ever entered your mind to wonder why she took the veil, buried herself in that dolorous convent of the living dead?”

  WHEN GOD LAUGHS

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