He is confident and relaxed, but with an air of vulnerability that is exacerbated, although I don't think created, by his slightly lugubrious looks; you feel that he's hiding nothing, but that there's a lot to get to.
I peered suspiciously at every swirl in the impenetrable brown water before cries from round a bend in the river had me paddling faster, just in time to spot a tapir, its lugubrious face and long nose making it look nothing so much as an amphibious Clement Freud, swimming across the river and climbing delicately out at the opposite bank.
Evoking a boyhood photograph of his mother looking brightly at the camera and "me being my usual self", he pulls an absurdly lugubrious face.
The narrator's fatalism and, in "The Guardian," his occasionally lugubrious tone can become oppressive.
Yet those mind-blowing influences are hard to detect in Mr. Houseago's lugubrious backward-looking sculptures.
Tell him that you enjoyed his slim novel, or his short stories, and his wide, rectangular face, which can look lugubrious in repose, will split in two in a delight so genuine you could almost warm your hands on it.
"He just looked lugubrious.
Fortunately, guitarist Andy Hagiioannu had the licks but not the looks (lugubrious walrus moustache) of Steely Dan's erstwhile guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
Her new husband, Phil, was lugubrious, with faded good looks, stick-thin.
Now, he's back as his old self, with quiff, lugubrious baritone and youthful looks unfeasibly intact.
Nonetheless, he looked suitably lugubrious as his fate was confirmed.
