Sentence examples for dour disposition from inspiring English sources
But a dour disposition is much better than the wild and embarrassing sycophancy displayed at Cannes by film buffs from newspapers and TV stations around the world.
These are the kind of jobs — the ones involving dirty sex and dirty politics ("high jingo" is Bosch's name for it) — that suit his dour disposition and support his cynical views of humanity.
Given that dour national disposition, it's no wonder that Kurt Wallander, the reflective detective in Henning Mankell's probing series of police procedurals, becomes fixated on the vulnerable nature of modern society.
Mr. Putin, as a political unknown whose disposition to the Western eye is somewhat dour, seems unlikely to achieve with Mr. Clinton the easy-going "Boris and Bill" chemistry that dominated during Mr. Yeltsin's two terms.
"With the rest of the family away," young Ferdie "was now his mother's sole companion in the dark parsonage," historian Geoffrey C. Ward writes in his new book, "A Disposition to be Rich". The mother had a religious zealot's dour view of the secular world and of the wages of sin.
Additional standouts in the company include Jonathan Hadary, whose dour-looking émigré watchmaker eventually asserts himself; David Adkins as a stockbroker with a cool and meticulous disposition; and Lee Sellars as a pugnacious house painter.
"I hate dour obscurantism.
