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.
All that it does is to produce a sullenness and bitterness which reappear at every opportunity.
He is forced to deal with his own sullenness and anti-social behavior along with similar issues with the other students.
You have become the victim of an excessive sullenness that masks your internal problems...
