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How to use saturnine in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word saturnine? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Where Kierkegaard was most inclined to become severe and saturnine, Hamann was most reckless in his rejoicing.
The portrayal is only historically accurate in the fact that the actor, like the real Richard, is handsome in a saturnine way.
We drove home in an uncomfortable silence, Grandma sensing my saturnine mood.
He was a bright boy from Yorkshire with a dark and saturnine look and laconic manner, and he was already writing strong verse.
Bordone's talent was dispersed among saturnine portraits, mannered religious scenes and images of dark and brooding eroticism.
He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret Lockwood or Ann Todd.
There's something mysterious, worn-in, and sad about this place, something that corresponds to Jarmusch's saturnine, knowing outlook.
A brusque, saturnine figure, Wilbur has attempted suicide by every possible means but has yet to succeed.
He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret or Ann.
It is an early modern concept, although it has correlatives from the time of the Greeks in allied concepts of stress, debility, appetitive, and saturnine behaviour.
He must be nearly 70 but still has his trademark saturnine good looks: piercing eyes, curly black hair and a deep chocolate voice.
Then, after the burning bush, he becomes a far darker, more saturnine figure.
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's the saturnine James Andersen, whose passions run so deep that they touch insanity, as inherited from his mother.
When the workmen take care not to agitate the massicot in placing it in the tun, they do not disseminate the saturnine dust during this operation.
The saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand to Saturn's mount, and there intersected by certain little lines, argues melancholy.
Examples from Classical Literature
All the while the little Cuban talked swiftly and with a saturnine enthusiasm.
His temper was of the saturnine complexion, and without the least taint of moroseness.
Against the fair, boyish face of Nevers you had to set the saturnine Italianate countenance of Gonzague.
The witticisms convulsed Paul's neighbours and left him saturnine.
The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain.
The voice of the older man came with a sinister force and saturnine.
Father Brown seemed rather to like the saturnine candour of the soldier.
He was of a saturnine nature, in whom anger burned slow and deep.
He had a marked squint and this gave him a saturnine expression.
The cook was a gaunt, long-legged person with a saturnine countenance.
Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his smile look malignant and saturnine.
The saturnine Hahn stood at my door with a weapon upon me while I ate.
He was a tall, black-eyed man, with the dark, saturnine face of an Indian.
Since he had heard of Lilla's death, the gloom of his remorse, emphasised by Mimi's upbraiding, had made more hopeless his cruel, selfish, saturnine nature.
Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bade adieu early.
His entire physiognomy was interestingly saturnine even cadaverously pale.
Harkey, a long, lank Texan, was unusually friendly for one with a saturnine disposition, and, as long as his theory that gold grew was not challenged, was quite companionable.
Saturnine faces were wreathed in smiles worthy of a pirouetting dancer.
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