lugubriousness

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The slow third movement is taken at a surprisingly brisk tempo, which helps rescue it from falling into lugubriousness, as is so often the case.

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  • The miserable songs—with their long, long ways that ended in sheer lugubriousness: real death-wails! —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • The slow third movement is taken at a surprisingly brisk tempo, which helps rescue it from falling into lugubriousness, as is so often the case. —  digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews
  • In contrast to the lugubriousness presentation in the other film, Ford elides the purported Rutledge romance with a single, brilliant sequence. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
  • I discovered that Chekhov, instead of being a spinner of depressing lugubriousness, was in reality the progenitor of the poetic melancholy that led to the exquisite and gently insightful plays of Tennessee Williams. —  Cleveland Scene
  • His lugubriousness gets him the sack, whilst he vegetates through his private life thanks to the lack of a flat or woman's love. —  cafebabel.com
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