Sentence examples for mournful aura from inspiring English sources
The film begins with an effectively mournful aura as we see the badly beaten up Harvey (Luke Treadaway) under the bright light of police questioning as he explains what led him there in the six weeks since he got out of prison for drug possession.
Were Mr. Crowe ever to play Rick in "Casablanca," instead of Humphrey Bogart's hard-boiled wounded romantic, he would probably give him the mournful shambling aura of a loyal St. Bernard with a distant glimmer of fire in his eyes.
There was, all over Ms. Brown's portrayal, an aura of mournful foreknowledge.
His uneasy relationship with his Oxford contemporary Kenneth Tynan ("I never found that I could penetrate that aura of brilliance and daring to discover the person behind it") was reflected in a mournful review he wrote in Plays and Players magazine of Carte Blanche, Tynan's sad sequel to Oh! Calcutta!
Aura loved that; she'd nestle closer in bed and lie still, as if the long mournful blasts were floating past us like manta rays in the dark.
Mournful, wintry, gentle.
The songs were mournful, too.
