Sentence examples for sullen man. from inspiring English sources

Steven Monjeza was a quiet, sullen man often intoxicated on sorghum beer.

Sadr, a chunky, sullen man in his early thirties, is the son of the cleric Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, a revered figure among Shiites.

Her father, a candy vendor, is a rumpled and sullen man with a tremor in his hands that makes it hard for him to hold a cup of tea.

Greeting a sullen man in Brooklyn, she could not resist teasing him about his Knicks cap, asking, "You don't get in trouble in this borough wearing that hat?" At a pizzeria in Forest Hills, Queens, she spent a few minutes debating environmental policy with a patron before learning he lived in upstate New York, and, therefore, could not vote in the mayor's race.

But any butcher — even the sullen man in the back of the local I.G.A. or the grumpy fellow down at the Sweetbay near the Beach Road — can get a lamb breast and cut it for you, often with only a day or two's notice.

In the next room a sullen man in a plaid sport coat stands almost adrift in a sea of photos.

In this reading, Mr. Eastwood's spiritual heroes are not saints or Christ-figures, but those angry, conflicted, sullen men typical of more recent Eastwood movies.

That was despite the efforts of sullen men from military intelligence near polling stations telling voters to back Mr Rajapaksa's ruling party.

I could see shadowy figures moving in and out of the store, and inside I imagined sullen men, sitting around and sipping bourbon from a bottle.

High chain-link fences topped with razor wire ran along either side, and sullen men stood in clumps or sat on the floor.

I wouldn't want tourists running around my business". All around him, sullen men in baseball caps zip about on motorized three-wheeled carts, taking corners like New York cabdrivers.