| 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. |
| At times, Mr. Capuçon lapsed into unabashed lugubriousness — that can be hard to avoid in the slow movement — but in the finale he regained the focus and zest that had enlivened his performance of the opening Allegro. |
| Mr. Oldman gives the movie, which at its most serious veers into lugubriousness, a nice jolt and a flinty presence that Mr. Washington can spark against. |
| Unfortunately, some other songs tend towards the kind of treacly lugubriousness that gives country music a bad name. |
| The neighborhood appealed to me, particularly at night when the full squalor and lugubriousness of it made itself felt. |
| Gone is the hokey croak which saw him verging on self-parody and in comes a delicious lugubriousness that's akin to lumpy honey. |
