Exempel på dour

• Most will conjure up images of a dour collection of mostly older folk, sitting quietly in a plain room.

• What is meant here can perhaps be approached by considering the case of an isolated community of dour individualists who-for purely prudential reasons-maintain a volunteer fire department.

• We should not pretend that they need our help because they are dour, miserable and always whingeing—that is the last thing they are.

• There is a tremen- dour need for pioneer experiment.

• In the end, one research worker, a rather dour north countryman, decided to take the local bus.

• He is a well-preserved man of 60, with high forehead of intellectual shape and a dour, uncompromising expression.

• In conclusion, those interested in penal reform have attempted to keep the dour taint of prison from as many people as possible.

• I have heard them again to-day with the same dour insistence, and when the bon.

• The title of this debate may appear a little dour and unexciting.

• No industrialist wants to move to a country which appears to him to be in a state of steep decline and inhabited by dour people holding out the begging bowl.

• Some of them will be dour.

• It is a dour business.

• The present stage of the war is dour and hard, and the fighting must be expected on all fronts to increase in scale and in intensity.

• These negatives assumed great importance in such a dour and unforgiving atmosphere.

• The funeral dance to the dour tune of bagpipes brings the footstep of doom into the forest.