'saturnine' is a word that is used in written english.
It is an adjective that refers to something that is sullen, gloomy, or depressing. Example sentence: With a saturnine expression and slumped posture, the teenager was a portrait of teenage angst.
He must be nearly 70 but still has his trademark saturnine good looks: piercing eyes, curly black hair and a deep chocolate voice.
"Brooding", "enigmatic" and "saturnine" are the kinds of words journalists reach for when attempting to describe him.
Enter Dick Fuld (pictured), the saturnine boss of Lehman Brothers, who testified to Congress on October 6th about the firm's demise.
His saturnine features and gravelly voice perfectly suited him to Mephistophelian roles, and he deployed these attributes to memorable effect as one of the "people in charge" of purgatory in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) and as the Devil himself in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).
Then, after the burning bush, he becomes a far darker, more saturnine figure.
It's better written and far better played (especially by the saturnine Burton and the haughty, voluptuous but vulnerable Taylor) than its reputation suggests.
Paynes, who either plays a Les Paul or a double-necked, six and 12-stringed guitar, has long black hair and a saturnine look.
There is plenty to admire in Bale's saturnine performance, and Nolan's flair for filming carefully choreographed mayhem in Gotham.
It would only be a less Nick Cave-like environment if the prodigiously talented, cheerfully saturnine artist had booked us a mani-pedi and a post-brunch 18-hole round.
They say: "Between his belfry-bat ears is a coil of such saturnine weirdness that no one, not even his closest friends, would want to unravel it".
The first third shows us the life and work of a saturnine nightwatchman (writer-director Ravi Pitts); the second drops him into a dark urban thriller; and the final third is a black comedy about police corruption.
