From 1982's classic Pornography, when they really put the "creepy" into Crawley, we get "One Hundred Years", featuring the almost comically morose opening line "It doesn't matter if we all die..."....
This year, in performances today, next Sunday and on Christmas, it offers the Baroque program, presumably including Charpentier's almost comically morose setting of the famous "folia" tune, which other Baroque composers put to riotous use, and the anonymous "Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled," "Greensleeves" by another name and in a slightly tipsy mode.
IGN noted that the style of the music tracks ranged from "hauntingly morose to almost jovially up-tempo".
I can remember flying to Manchester from Paris on Christmas Eve that year, leaving behind an almost empty airport, and a morose country.
Mr. Lohan was hardly morose about his own legal troubles.
The key is that while it's all obviously incredibly sad (she says it was inspired by a period of "hurt, shame, sadness, guilt, longing" following the end of a relationship), it's never morose or cloying; there's something almost uplifting about wallowing in her pain.
Full of funny emotional wisdom ("Where does it hurt?" / "Everywhere" / "Can you stand up?" / "I don't care"), it can complement almost any mood it's sad but not morose, invigorating but not overstimulating, intelligent but not precious.
Mr. Bardem plays Rejas with a morose wit, a cheekiness that registers almost as an afterthought.
Mr. Bardem portrays Rejas with a morose wit, a cheekiness that registers almost as an afterthought.
Ferguson talks about Frank Stapleton "bordering on the morose".
