“Gone is the hokey croak which saw him verging on self-parody and in comes a delicious lugubriousness that's akin to lumpy honey.”
“Unfortunately, some other songs tend towards the kind of treacly lugubriousness that gives country music a bad name.”
“The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.”