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Sentence Examples Their voices are modulated and trailed by a mournful accordion and occasional tablas. It's sick for the obituary to lionize a black-hearted murderer without even a mournful mention of his innocent victims. He came over and sat by my chair, a look of mournful regret on his open honest little face. Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious. Gradually throughout the 1920s the Anzac Day service became less and less akin to a mournful funeral. Everett had a very deep bass voice that sounded perpetually gloomy and mournful when a person wasn't used to him. A single figure stepped toward the pyre and a mournful cry of loss and sorrow tore up into the night. Fleet, meanwhile, has the resigned and mournful air of a dog who knows the precise trick his master requires him to perform in return for dinner. He wore sometimes a mournful look, at other times an almost blank expression as he followed his beloved grandmother. Ms. Kim plays a mournful noblewoman from Korea's Joseon Dynasty who later becomes a slave in China. Winter was over but there was room for a twinge of regret, it seemed to me, and a little mournful Polish fatalism. A lone violin could be heard, reaching the point of emotional unbearableness with mournful vibratoes and sorrowful strokes. The church was quiet except for the mournful organ and the rustling sound adults made at times like this. Just before she tried to commit suicide, she sang a movingly mournful prayer with a solo oboe. I can well understand the mournful complaint of the prisoner in solitary confinement. At times mournful, and at other times gently consoling, there's little about it that smells of brimstone. As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody. Such stirring events provoked a range of responses, and those printed here are bitter, mournful, vitriolic, and celebratory in turn. As the wind kicked up, the plates and lids began rattling against the stone, beating out a mournful, otherworldly cadence. Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge. Show More Sentences He's got all the tools he needs for the job too, a desk, an office, a hardbitten narration track and even some mournful harmonica music. But his mind's eye isn't fraught with mournful replays of a life cut short by a heinous crime. Sprightly angels support Francoise's massive, floating, upright heraldic device, while mournful lions stoop to stabilize Louis's drooping shield. Track seven boosts the creepy level a tad with the mournful, almost chant-like singing. Now, at the mere mention of his long-ago battle, Sy uttered a mournful howl, fell to his knees, and covered his head with his skinny arms. Far in the distance floated the sonorous and mournful cry of the imam calling the midday prayers. Her voice dissolves among the slowly strummed guitar, brushed drums and mournful fiddle. The mournful undertones of this track conjure a sense of loss, perhaps for ancestors, perhaps for all passing. From a whooshing, gurgling still comes the ringing, plaintive and mournful. The mournful saxophone appears again in an interlude before the short second movement. In either case, she is no longer with him, another fission in this song of mournful departures. Short, mournful melodies emerge, like foghorns singing to themselves absent-mindedly. His own compositions are mostly fragmented, mournful affairs, stuffed with bursts of folkish melodies and oblique twists. Much like a requiem, the mood is mournful, even funereal, and the work includes passages one could label classical and minimalist. He looked very mournful sitting in his basket while the other two were being fussed on my knee. It was barely light yet and not even the dawn chorus interrupted the mournful silence she had ordered upon the palace. It was followed by a mournful decrescendo that filled the clearing with sadness. For one club the journey home will be triumphant and glorious for the other it will be mournful and bitter. The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery. I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge. Show More Sentences Somewhere in the distance an exotic bird gave off a trilling call that sounded both mournful and sweet. Personal re-invention is at least as much a part of the blues landscape as mournful harmonicas, stinging guitars or walking bass lines. I remember sitting there at the Polo Grounds, and there was a guy sitting near me in the stands blowing this mournful horn. The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors. Their flamboyant style contrasted with established mournful acts on the shortlist, such as Radiohead and Coldplay. The screams of terror, cries of agony, were now replaced by despairing wails and echoing voices of mournful weepers. It is a mournful silence, broken only by the eternal singing of the katydids. Of course, that explained Mother's reaction to the news and her respectfully mournful look. I pulled the chain on the shade of my bedroom window with a certain mournful sense of ceremony. A mournful adagio is sandwiched between the scherzo's reprise, deftly establishing contrast. I was sitting in the Commons tea room last week, munching a mournful rock cake and studying the newspapers. It was the wail of a thousand banshees, mixed with the mournful cries of wolves. There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march. The orchestra ended its current tune, and instantly began a mournful march. Despite and because of the determined atmosphere of painful crisis in the book, Keith doesn't always avoid a thinly disguised, mournful banality. Sheard certainly has an odd, melancholy stage presence, especially when belting out some extraordinarily mournful show tunes. Dorothy Parker wrote for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines with a caustic pen, but her biting wit also had a mournful edge. Number Two Court may be colloquially known as the graveyard of champions but the mournful mood was only allowed to descend when football was mentioned. Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel. The climax of the album, however, is his mournful, observational rapping. Show More Sentences A soundtrack of mournful chanting gives the whole work an elegiac quality. Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones. The answer is emphatic, the expression on the face is mournful. Perhaps it was the heat, the lack of dinner in my belly, or some deep animal instinct, but I suddenly felt the urge to tip my head back and howl like a mournful dog. Groups of indris communicate with mournful and distinctive howls. It's incredibly evocative, atmospheric and mournful yet never depressing. He's there to deliver the dark news, the mournful tone, while in the background John Williams's haunting guitar solos inflect a general mood of ominousness. Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout. It is a mournful threnody, measuring to the final cost the waste and destruction caused by the edenic myths of California that have defined it throughout its existence. String groupings of violins and cellos swell throughout and voice aching, mournful melodies, the piano occasionally joined by a celeste or glockenspiel. Ryann cast him a mournful glance, before walking back to the kitchen. The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers. And outside only a bird's mournful cry broke the stillness of the timeless, winding country lanes and mile upon rolling mile of flat farm land fringed by the sea. After putting the finishing touches to an instrument, he plucks a mournful tune which fills the workshop, his big brown eyes briefly lost in thought. These aren't stomping tunes, but tender and mournful folk songs, a bespoke genre. They arrived in the capital to the mournful wail of air raid sirens. I woke up when I heard the mournful cry of a harpooned whale. South Africa is a sport-mad country and the loss of another sportsman is noticeable and the subject of much mournful debate whilst quaffing beer at the local. His tone turned mournful, still slightly squeaky and overloud. His reply was quite the most mournful plea for understanding I had ever heard in three decades of involvement in the crazy inexplicable world of racing. Show More Sentences Quite obviously, there is a deeply mournful element to the novel. Young Lucius plucked a mournful dirge on the kithara and soon Drusus broke out his aulos. In 1591, he published Complaints, a collection of poems that express complaints in mournful or mocking tones. Grant might have had a faint, mournful, ironic chuckle over this. Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth. This book, a 35-year sampling of the writer's work, sings the mournful, joyful songs of life sustained between have and have-not. Witness the currently vanishing street frontages of Smithdown Road and Kensington and the mournful spectacle of the Edge Lane tabula rasa. Thus, both the mournful Mixolydian and Syntono-lydian harmoniai, and the 'slack' Iastian and Lydian are rejected from the Socratic city-state. What some see as an expression of spiritual depth in his sitters, others have called mournful, aloof, or even vacant. A gentler but no less mournful spirit inflects Steve Reinke's Sad Disco Fantasia. On the opening track, a mournful shamisen wails over a sinister insectile buzz. A choir sang one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted. The male sings its loud and mournful song from trees or rocks. After this mournful deprivation, I was, for a long time, ravenless. When Carlin arrives moments later, the auditory point-of-view becomes his, initially cutting out most of the ambient sound in favor of a mournful nondiegetic theme. On nearby pasture, sheep shared their grazing with hundreds of Lapwings, and the view was brightened by a dozen Golden Plovers, their arrival preceded by a mournful whistle. Body Blows assembles Miller's six major solo shows, from his frisky, earthy coming-of-age story Some Golden States in 1987 to 1999's mournful Glory Box. Examples from Classical Literature I think John's imagination was worked upon by the sweet and mournful hymns that were discordantly sung in the stiff old parlors. How strange was the monotonous sound of the waves, mournful and distant, like the sound in a seashell! And mournful and with a heavy heart he bewept the extinction of that beam of heaven. And yet, when all has been said, we are confronted with a mournful but stubborn fact. Her voice, her aspect, so inimitably tender and mournful, struck him to the heart. The wind swayed gently the branches of the great she-oaks as a mopoke's mournful note came from the gum trees. The instrument, on which he doubtless accompanied his mournful love-songs, is a form of cittern. Again the page was played, the tam-tam's thin edge set shivering with mournful resonance. The Lincolnian droop in his great, sad, mournful mouth accentuated the resemblance to the martyr president. The mournful wail of a horn in the fog now and then announced the location of some lobsterman. Then there is the brown owl, which utters that mournful hooting sound which one so often hears by night in wooded districts. Judy, ever visualizing, pictured herself in black with organdy collar and cuffs and a mournful, patient look. Down the room a low, mournful wail, almost a lullaby, went on and ceased not. Apart from every thing else, it was a mournful witness to the world's mutation. You will never find me less so when you vauntingly exhibit such mournful blemishes of character. A mournful lot is mine, a strange and mournful lot, yet not uncheered by hope. One of the children played a balalaika and sang in a broken, mournful voice that did not at all belong to her age. Sure enough, when we reached the summit there was the caddie, a mournful statue on the edge of the sand trap. It had a loud thick voice, a guttural whistle, which was intensely mournful. It was on the weddingday of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance. Show More Sentences The look was so mournful, so uncannily intent that he turned away from it. Again he spoke of angels, but in a milder and mournful tone. Is not thy tongue a-weary, mournful talker of two centuries? The villages passed, mournful and solitary under the burning sun. But they can't compete with the foghorns whose low, mournful tones were once a defining feature of the landscape. The mournful irony of the words was belied by the tremulous voice. Jed whistled a few mournful bars and sharpened a chisel on an oilstone. They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope. And this same arid soil hath ever been A haunt of countless mournful memories, As well in our day as in days of yore. At that instant the curlew shot over her head with its deep, mournful cry. There was something mournful and depressing in the sight of her. It was a very still Sabbath, and the mournful sound seemed in keeping with the musing hush that lay upon nature. My voice had a faltering, mournful sound, and there was no answer. Thus to the gaspereau's mouth moved on that mournful procession. The mournful current moved slowly on, and from the water, shaded black, some white bubble eyes looked at the men. Sad and mournful are thy ways, grieving, wailing, Autumn days! At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind. It was a mournful reminder of the decay of the Hawaiian race. You know, the Sistine Madonna's face has something fantastic in it, the face of mournful religious ecstasy. We are just returned from the solemnization of the last mournful rite. Show More Sentences It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity. It was always mournful to see them come flying home at sunset and disappear under the earth. Muffled, slow, grand and mournful, it went wailing and throbbing by. The wind rose, and swept with a mournful wail through the ice-desert. The Eskimo dog seldom barks, but he has a mournful, wolflike howl. She was not to be overweighted by mournful responsibilities. He made them sing mournful ditties and say funny things about geography and Ireland. It was a mournful pull ashore, and tragic in the retrospect. Kenelm returned the moue with a mournful smile and an involuntary shrug. And a vast stillness reigns, mournful, ominous, unutterably sad. It was the long wolf-howl, full-throated and mournful, the first howl he had ever uttered. The mournful whistle of waterfowl in countless flocks was to be heard. Later the mournful call of a whooping crane floated across the prairie. The gloom of the forest fell on her, mournful like a winding sheet. Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? The build-up of drums and mournful strings add to the shivery feel. She was chanting in a mournful voice, occasionally interjecting bursts of volcanic wrath at the father, who, Jimmie judged, had sunk down on the floor or in a corner. The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold. Mellow, melancholy, yet not mournful, the tone seemed to gush up out of the deep well of Hepzibah's heart, all steeped in its profoundest emotion. Find more words! 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