Sentence examples for dour faced from inspiring English sources

Have fun and come on Scotland!!!! I've never really subscribed to the notion that pessimism and self-doubt, especially in Scottish sport are our default settings but I do think it's a generational problem (though I realise this sentiment's potentially opening a can of worms) and there has been - as a sweeping generalisation - a lifetime of naysayers and dour faced disbelievers.

The dour faces in the Nets' locker room telegraphed a different feeling.

All the dour faces at the blackjack table, the speed and efficiency of the deal, the fact that no one has to pause a moment for inspiration when choosing the next game, or deciding how much to charge for wild cards, or whether this time, two-eyed jacks and black queens would be wild together.

Smiles on the erstwhile dour faces translate an inner well-being, the contentment of simply being.

A pantheon of dour faces.

Which just might explain Lemme Talampe's dour face.

He can still picture Mr. Green's dour face and bald head.

And Paul Scofield wraps his dour face and deep-timbred voice around Robert Bolt's dialogue with such satisfying, calculated calibration.

Merchant stands, hovering, a good neck and shoulder above him, staring at the camera with his wonderfully dour face.

Even Fox News, which called the election with dour faces and remarks that Romney was "a loser in this race," turned its cameras to the revelry in Chicago.

Afrikanerdom, in fact and fantasy, has been seen, not always fairly perhaps, as the dour face of a doom-laden, puritan people.