That, of course, is the paradox: Joel's art is defined by his life, and his best work is his most morose.
The entire track is morose in the best possible way, perfect for obliviously dancing down the street at a wholly inappropriate time of day.
(Wow: Alexa sings!) Rather than turning my music off first, she lowered its volume, and sang "Happy Birthday" on top of a thin layer of "Naked If I Want To" by Cat Power: a morose party trick, best performed for an audience of one, and served with solitary cupcake, candle, party hat, and noisemaker.
Perhaps its morose and ragged appeal is best appreciated against the backdrop of what followed, an endless stream of teenage dramas — some good, some awful — that both recall and point it up as an essay embalmed in time about a way of being 15 that no one will ever experience again.
Still, it's a surprise that Ms. Bareilles's best song on this album is her most morose.
The morose missing-persons mystery brought in its largest audience (22.85 million) and best 18-to-49 18-to-49 18-to-49ason.
In Mr. Ellis's book — not one of his best, but not without interest — the numb plainness of the prose at times achieves a morose clarity, and the deadpan, brain-dead dialogue is tweaked with satire.
Rather than speculating about the odds of her reaching the Elysée, France's mainstream politicians need to work far harder to head off Ms Le Pen and her party.The best answer is for them to deal with the malaise that grips so many of France's morose voters.
Carlyle, best known for firecracker performances in films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty, here cuts a somewhat more morose figure.
"I know this kind of sounds morose," he said, "but in the grand scheme of things, losing a leg is one of the best things that ever happened to me.
