| He spins round and lifts the teapot with a smile, the mournfulness temporarily gone, trapped beneath a professional veneer. |
| The Civil War begins, crests, and reaches a disastrous conclusion with the destruction of Atlanta, and mournfulness holds sway through the middle of the epic. |
| He made a decrescendo tinkling, and his lofty features lapsed into their normal mournfulness. |
| There's a sombre mournfulness that suggests deep hurt and painful, reluctant acceptance. |
| Meynell's verse is marked by its simple vocabulary and religious sincerity, and it communicates a gentle mournfulness and a sense of the passing of time. |
| The second piece, marked Scherzo, intensifies the mournfulness into anguish and panic. |
