dolorousness

Gabriel works hard to convey restrained intensity of emotion, but mostly he conveys only a kind of strenuous, earnest dolorousness.

Peter Gabriel, Scratch My Back (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

Gabriel works hard to convey restrained intensity of emotion, but mostly he conveys only a kind of strenuous, earnest dolorousness.

Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

But, in terms of steady, workaday, year-in-year-out dolorousness, the writers have no near rivals.

film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

But, in terms of steady, workaday, year-in-year-out dolorousness, the writers have no near rivals.

film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

But, in terms of steady, workaday, year-in-year-out dolorousness, the writers have no near rivals.

film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

He turned upon the factor the brilliance of his smile, a combination of dazzling teeth and eyes that fairly danced with spirit, like bubbling wine, blue and swift in their changes from laughter to an exaggerated dolorousness, as when he spoke of these terrible hardships.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"Then it is really good-by," he murmured with mock dolorousness.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

The tune it went to seemed inadequate, the more so as in our church tunes were always dragged to the limit of non-conformist dolorousness.

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

But even the presence of the swinging-lamps, which Hamish regarded as the highest conceivable point of luxury, did little to lessen the dolorousness of the appearance of the poor old _Umpire_.

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

Clara came out with a swan's note swelling over mechanical imitation of him to dolorousness illimitable.

The Egoist George Meredith 1868