A figure, perhaps Mossadegh himself, appears spectral, swathed in mournful robes of black and grey.
There are only a couple of moments where you think a 120bpm kick drum could be about to burst in: on Übersprung, an exquisitely mournful string arrangement appears instead, and ushers the track firmly away from the dancefloor.
From the moment the white letters of the title sequence, adorned with the puppeteer's hands and strings, appeared over the black screen, the mournful trumpet solo weeping in the background, I knew I was in for a singular experience.
While a jigging Princess Elizabeth and the mournful Brontë sisters may appear to fulfil our desire to reanimate the past, to puff breath into desiccated body parts and get the blood pulsing round the archive, they always stop short of full resurrection.
A mournful-faced elderly man appeared at the door, clutching a big pink plastic-covered number eight.
Ms. Orafai, who also appeared in "The White Balloon," possesses a sensuous, mournful dignity that recalls Ingrid Bergman in her prime.
Those in "Sleeper" look like mournful penguins.
The trio in which she, Queen Tye (Rebecca Bottone) and Akhnaten appear as wordless ghosts conveys a sense of haunting and mournful regret.
Mr. Fadhli appears in photographs and videotapes as a lanky, distinguished-looking man with large, mournful eyes; a jutting nose; and a thin beard and mustache.
Her production includes the mournful ballads of Kelley McRae, a gospel and blue-grass musician who appears onstage during the performance to punctuate, it would seem, the extent to which Ms. deBessonet sees "St.
Heisserer's screenplay deftly weaves the extraterrestrial mystery, assigned to a fretful linguist named Louise Amy Adamss), with mournful flashes to Louise's family backstory — which turn out to be something radically different than they appear.
