Exempel på moroseness

• I wonder what is the cause of his moroseness and ill-humour.

• You might mistake fashionable moroseness for depression, but that's your problem.

• You can't help wondering if some of her moroseness derives from the ever-present fact of physical pain.

• In fact, their mood of sullenness departed as by magic, and a smile swept over their massive mood of moroseness, and glory swept the skies.

• The steadiness of their poise and their silence in the presence of strangers is not due to moroseness or the absence of active thought.

• But the loss of the money increased (were that possible) his moroseness.

• Having once imbued my hands in innocent blood, my cruelty and moroseness knew no bounds.

• And those who knew him testify that he was a mild old man, and serious indeed, but without moroseness.

• His awkwardness slowly changed back again into moroseness.

• The manager, who was displeased by the manufacturer's silent moroseness, did what he could also to bring his two charges together.

• That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature.

• There were moments when his moroseness became threatening.

• On several occasions he had noticed signs of a preoccupation, of suppressed excitement, of silence and moroseness.

• Her cheerfulness gave way to sadness and moroseness.

• Good cheer was much more natural to her than moroseness.

• Then they were decorous and solemn to the verge of moroseness.

• The general expression of the countenance is melancholy, and exhibits a strange combination of moroseness and gentleness.

• Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.