With BT, what comes back is a lumpen sullenness".
The result, as Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a columnist, points out, is a "triumph of sullenness over humour".
Less than 150 years' old, this urban adolescent has managed to escape the sullenness of youth with a friendly Downtown that's compact and easy to explore.
Although her face can slacken into what looks like sullenness — an expression seized upon by news photographers, who like to capture her hovering behind the Mayor, as if she were his cheerless errand girl — she is an effective public speaker, with a biography that ties her persuasively to the city's master narrative of immigrant striving, of survival and success.
I thought as well of Douglas Fairbanks's satirical gymnastic shenanigans, of Greta Garbo's heavy-lidded sullenness, of Emil Jannings's tragic despair.
"Since I was an impeccable liar and rarely got caught," Naomi recalled, "our fights were less about actual transgressions than about my silence, my sullenness and, as my dad was always fond of putting it, my 'refusal to be part of this family.' " Naomi spent her adolescence in her room writing poetry or experimenting in the bathroom with makeup.
However joylessly the astronaut may have embarked on his world tour, he resisted sullenness even in New York City, where stacks of I.B.M. punch cards being thrown like ticker tape sometimes failed to flutter apart and dented the limos like bricks.
This sullenness notwithstanding, it would be wrong to conclude that conservatives are losing the argument over the direction of the economy.
In a landmark book called "The Great Apes," published in 1929, he said their sullenness, moroseness, or hostility, may turn out to be a mixture of timidity and self-protection.
Try as he might, he could not resolve the disparity between the sullenness of his subjects and his own ravenous and unending sensibility.
