Voorbeelden van mournful

• The choice has left him without family or community, resigned to a writer's life of "little mournful lonelinesses" (27) with a reduced capacity for fellowship.

• These 'arias' are mournful because of their loss, their slippage, their failure to engage.

• The piano joins a percussion section of rattles and gongs that dominates the ritual, whilst a mournful cello portrays the plight of the horse.

• We sang the music; the canon was excellent and very mournful.

• From the narrator's perspective, either the notification of a mournful event or a detailed description of the nobleman's death are beside the point.

• The mournful quality of the six succinct and direct movements is suited to the dark sonorities of the solo instrument, which dominates the work.

• The cowpoke hears their mournful cry, the distantly reverberant, ' yippie-eye-ay, yippie-eye-o'.

• Horgan described her as highly neurotic, highly attenuated emotionally, a mournful person.