Sentence examples for morose nature from inspiring English sources
Llewyn performs traditional songs of a morose nature ("Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" being a prime example), sleeps on friends' couches until he quickly wears out his welcome, and discovers he may have impregnated a friend's wife and arranges for her abortion even as he discovers that another woman he'd gotten pregnant two years before had had his child but had never told him.
But France is morose, inward looking, pessimistic by nature, unsure of itself and so lacking in confidence that even a teasing, if unflattering, photograph of its president on the front page of the Guardian can cause a national trauma and accusations of "le French bashing".
"We won't be morose about it because we don't understand [the nature of Houllier's problem], but we send him our best wishes".
This reading crucially neglects, it seems to me, the great comedy of books like The Rings of Saturn; Sebald's everpresent sense of his chaotic, burdensome quests as morose caricatures of the human condition; his raised-eyebrow acknowledgment that the eternal seeker after truth is by his nature, at least, a somewhat ludicrous figure.
France still feels morose.
