Sentence examples for less morose from inspiring English sources
"He was already dead, the poor son of a biscuit eater," Dr. Sauer said, looking less morose than he had the last time we spoke.
The attitude of the heavyweight Lance Whitaker, one of the fighters in the main event on the eight-fight card, was decidedly less morose.
If you spoke too much of your deceased grandmother, for instance, during a dinner date, you may want to speak of a less morose topic with your next prospect.
At the summer program, though, Michael seemed less violent than morose.
But the third movement sounded less reflective than morose, and the finale's rustic dances lacked mirth.
JENS LEKMAN The droll Swedish singer-songwriter returns with "Night Falls Over Kortedala," an album full of pretty, whimsical songs that are often less — or more — morose than they first seem.
As popular paintings go, "Christina's World" is remarkable for being so dark and humorless, yet the public seemed to focus less on its gothic and morose quality and more on the way Mr. Wyeth painted each blade of grass, a mechanical kind of realism that was distinctive if only for going against the tide of abstraction.
And his self-depiction in the Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory (in which the protagonist, an artist, creates a portrait of him) is far less lenient than Le Monde's portrayal: its "Michel Houellebecq" is a morose, alcoholic, latently suicidal, possibly paranoid near-recluse and misanthrope.
Audiences have on the whole been less kind, some viewers dubbing her "fat Betty," "selfish Betty" or "weird Betty" for her morose attitude and flinty behavior with her children, especially her adolescent daughter, Sally, toward whom she seems to harbor an unseemly mix of competitiveness and rage.
The result is a shoegazey take on smooth rock that's morose but surprisingly luscious, with fatty bass lines, walls of moody synthesizers and a slick pose that's never less than affectionate.
