Sentence examples for mournful appearance from inspiring English sources
The site was left mainly as it was after the accident, giving an uncanny and mournful appearance to the scattered debris and silent mountains.
Smoke trees spend most of the year leafless, their mournful appearance enlivened in May and June when they erupt in masses of blue pea-like flowers.
The lead prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Eric Warner, sat through most of the trial with a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger half smile on his face, and his opening statement reflected his rather mournful appearance.
Elsewhere, Paloma Faith playing herself in quasi-caricature strikes a discordant note, while a mournful appearance by a portly football-icon lookalike provides a lengthy set-up for a single joke.
He added: "I have seen more smiles today on their oblong faces than before I came to Rebeldom, for they have been the most doleful looking set of men I ever saw, and the Confederate gray uniform really adds to their mournful appearance".
The event swung from festive, with appearances by the tenor Plácido Domingo and the rock band Bon Jovi, to the mournful, as when Mrs. Merkel pointed out the importance of recalling that Nov. 9 was also the date in 1938 of the Nazi-led attacks on Jewish people, businesses and places of worship known as Kristallnacht.
Mournful, wintry, gentle.
He looked slightly mournful.
