That would be deeply unsatisfactory and could lead to all sorts of sournesses.
I should not like to end on a note of sourness in what has been a congenial and agreeable debate.
If there is sourness and disillusion in the boardroom, you will get sourness right through the factory, right down to the newest apprentice.
However, the sourness of the loser cannot detract from the significance of the victory.
Unhappily, one detects a certain amount of sourness—not in the milk itself, but in the faces of dairy farmers at the moment.
I do not want to end on a negative or sour note, having criticised others for showing a touch of sourness.
Those comments were the only point at which a note of sourness was introduced into the debate.
Sourness was never any good to any business or any cause.
