Sentence examples for lugubrious note from inspiring English sources

(Sam Mendes's production for the Bridge Project, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at the Old Vic in London, struck a similarly lugubrious note).

(Sam Mendes's production for the Bridge Project, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at the Old Vic in London, struck a similarly lugubrious note). A sepulchral gloom seems to have settled over interpretations of this romantic comedy, an emphasis on adversity rather than the potential sweetness of its uses.

The narrator's fatalism and, in "The Guardian," his occasionally lugubrious tone can become oppressive.

The "lugubrious" Schwab, noted Gapper, is "a canny entrepreneur" who has built a kind of proto-social media operation that "is not conspiracy; it's infotainment".

And Mr. Cave's lugubrious vocals offer an appropriate note of melancholy beauty to grace the sinister-sweet closing family tableau, as memories are erased and dark winter gives way to cleansing spring.

This sense of exhaustion — of being fed up with lacerating internal arguments — is a new note in LaBute's lugubrious music.

As everyone knows, the dinosaurs have simply been a lugubrious convenience of research for Bill.

Peel was never one for hype or eulogy, but somewhere within the lugubrious voice and deadpan delivery, I thought I heard a little note of excitement and perhaps even an adjective of praise.

This is a nice, small joke that provides a few grace notes of levity in what is otherwise a lugubrious exercise in spiritual bushwa.

Even if the press, so recently laden with scorn, is now lugubrious in its romanticism -- ESPN's Todd Blackledge, a former Paterno quarterback, noted, "As much as anything, he died of a broken heart" -- no one knows if the ordeal hastened JoePa's death.

A fascinating range of tone infuses the book grieving, but clear-eyed rather than lugubrious, sometimes whimsical, even comical, and often exuberant.