Sentence examples for dour image from inspiring English sources

Warren Christopher's dour image was not inaccurate, Ms. Sweeney said.

Culturally, the company is a world away from the dour image form which Iran suffers.

He had four years in charge that brought one Copa América, in 2007, but otherwise produced a team in his rather dour image.

"That was some way to finish this season," said Patriots Coach Bill Belichick, who shed his dour image to reveal a smile.

Helsinki has shaken off a somewhat dour image in recent years to emerge as one of Europe's most refreshing city-break destinations.

By contrast, the Five Easy Preludes and Fugues on the second disc seem much more straightforward and lighter in tone; Goode certainly makes them sparkle in a way that belies the composer's dour image.

Gently, Mr. Jia, with dour images and wistful conversations, suggests the spiritual cost of the country's sweeping material gains.

For a teen-age boy accustomed to the American media's dour images of Iran, the exile programs can be alluring.

Fun is a word that has gone down well with a number of northern towns, cities and regeneration agencies in recent months as Bradford, Barnsley, Halifax, Stoke-on-Trent and Middlesbrough have sought to throw off the dour images they still unfairly conjure in the popular imagination.

I list these dour images to remind readers how remarkably lucky (or remarkably clever) we are to live here.

It can get too dour, this image wrangling, like the Decemberists with a migraine.