Sentence examples for downbeat manner from inspiring English sources
Currie has a beard and an excitable yet downbeat manner.
Camelot, who almost became the first Triple Crown winner since 1970, ended his career in a downbeat manner on Monday, having retirement thrust upon him by lameness.
But its bizarrely downbeat and ritualized manner makes it clear that the production has a very different point of view toward violence from that of its protagonist.
"Engaging company" is not a description you would use of Liam Williams (Capitalism, Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey), though his downbeat, indifferent stage manner is oddly compelling.
She looks fabulous, but in a downbeat, quiet way.
British cinema of the early 1960s was a relentlessly downbeat affair, studiedly realist in a manner pinched from the French New Wave, cautiously unflashy and obsessed with failure.
Over here, hard by the border, the accent takes on that sibilant Portuguese slur and the people also have the slow, slightly subdued manner of their more downbeat Iberian neighbours.
In a similar vein, Keith Coventry's 1995 Sceaux Gardens Estate is a pastiche of high modernist manners, with its slightly off-white background and downbeat yellow rectangles.
Alpher is downbeat about Iran.
'Yeah,' says Clement, downbeat.
