Sentence examples for mournful expression from inspiring English sources

He stares at me with such a powerfully mournful expression that I flinch.

("They ask things like 'Where do you buy food?' And I say, 'In a store!' ") A mournful expression made her face sag.

A week later, wearing a high-necked wedding dress and a mournful expression, she was married to Bogdan, her kidnapper.

Having said that, the Fiver has always been fond of current No1 Manuel Almunia, in particular his mournful facial expression which makes him look at all times like a man who has just been told his budgie has died.

Evening shadows cast a mournful look over the scene.

Bumgarner is composed out there, his expression mournful, almost apologetic, even while delivering his wide-wing, slinging stuff.

The Clumber has a heavy bone structure, has a massive 'melting' head with a mournful and sleepy expression, a square nose and muzzle, and large vine-leaf shaped ears.

What doesn't reassert itself as dialogue takes the form of Ryder's slow, sibilant, mournful voice-overs, expressions of his longing and detachment.

Her expression is mournful but not melodramatic.

"Can't no anybody park up on this block," says Shango, who beneath his dreads wears an expression of mournful unflappability.

The punk movement's liberation from form freed Cobain's genius to make Nirvana music out of the most basic human expression: the mournful cry for help.