Voorbeelden van sullenness

• He falls into bouts of sullenness and anger.

• He said something quietly, without sullenness.

• She had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage.

• Such actions fuelled resistance that took various forms ranging from ' sullenness, foot-dragging, and rumormongering ' (p. 152) to the secret maintenance of traditional religion.

• If they are too heavy they will not be accepted as just: they will be resented, and they will cause sullenness and rebellion.

• Let sullenness be produced in this country, and it will have a serious effect upon output.

• There was no sort of or sullenness on the part of the people, and there was courtesy on the part of the troops.

• There has been no sullenness in the factories and no sabotage worth talking about.