Sentence examples for lugubrious tone from inspiring English sources

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

The lugubrious tone of the second (and final) season that begins on Sunday night may mark the mood at HBO more than that of the ancient Forum.

Jonathan Raisin's evocative score is based around the lugubrious tone of a bass saxophone and contains echoes of Edward Elgar's Weary Wind of the West, which the composer premiered here at the Morecambe choral festival in 1903.

Invoking the singer's mother, who died of complications after cosmetic surgery in 2007, Mr. Leno took on the lugubrious tone of Dr. Phil to ask, "What do you think she would have said about this?" Mr. West choked up and seemed unable to answer, and instead covered his face as if in tears.

Invoking the singer's mother, who died in 2007 of complications following cosmetic surgery, Mr. Leno took on the lugubrious tone of Dr. Phil to ask, "What do you think she would have said about this?" Mr. West choked up and seemed unable to answer, and instead covered his face as if in tears.

Still, this was largely a lugubrious, tone-deaf pageant of the walking dead, played out against leafy green wallpaper and tatty wood-grain veneer.

His lugubrious tones are straight out of Woody Allen.

It's amusing at the beginning when Manny the Mammoth, speaking in the lugubrious tones of Mr. Romano, rolls his family's traditional holiday centerpiece — the Christmas rock — into position.

Also, the boy had turned the sound on his Xbox up very loud; there's nothing less likely to get anyone in the mood for nipple clamps than Alan Smith's lugubrious tones offering pre-scripted expert analysis on Fifa 15.

Keiller's second film, Norwood (1984), maintained the lugubrious narrative tone and visual deadpan; its monochrome suburban vistas are glum rehearsals of Camille Pissarro's Impressionist views of London in the 1870s.

There isn't a single note that doesn't fit your idea of what a new version of that old Leeds/goth Unknown Pleasures-influenced scene/sound would be like, from Johnson's lugubrious, stentorian tones, heavy with reverb, to the jagged, scything riffing, the dour, booming bass, the rattling intensity of the drums and the shrouded-in-dry-ice sonics.