Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet LUGUBRIOUS

Definition av LUGUBRIOUS

1. luguber

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• Self is a contributor to the BBC Radio 4 programme A Point of View, to which he contributes radio essays delivered in his familiar "lugubrious tones".
• Among them were the bibulous Colonel Chinstrap ("I don't mind if I do"), the charlady Mrs Mopp ("Can I do you now, sir?"), the incompetent German agent Funf ("this is Funf speaking"), the courtly odd-job men Cecil and Claude ("After you, Claude—no, after you, Cecil"), the Middle Eastern hawker Ali Oop ("I go—I come back"), and the lugubrious Mona Lott ("It's being so cheerful that keeps me going").
• Thing was retconned as a disembodied forearm, since he occasionally emerged from his box at near-elbow length, and was usually played by Ted Cassidy, who also played the lugubrious butler Lurch.
• In 2003, Draco prepared for the release of his most ambitious project titled Mad Love consisting of lugubrious gothic ballads and esoteric windblown burdens.
• Liszt relies particularly on dark timbres and low registers, providing expressive indications such as expressive dolente, feeble, lachrymoso, lamentative, lugubrious, crying.
• For Tovey the lugubrious tone suggests a "kind of Hungarian funeral march", while Malcolm MacDonald sees it as "florid" and "a Hungarian fantasia".
• Citing the lyrics, Peter Doggett says that Lennon was rightly dismissive of the song, while Chris Ingham calls it "riffily convoluted gobbledygook" with a "lugubrious chromatic approach" that Spector's editing wisely pared back.
• The screenplay and direction are lugubrious, as the characters march in their overwritten and often overacted roles toward a foregone conclusion.
• He commented that Sumner and Marr "have programmed in the garagey synth lines and soft pedal Italian piano, and left out any semblance of melody", while Tennant "murmurs a few lugubrious lines with the enthusiasm of a narcoleptic jellyfish".
• Stanwyck, he concluded, was incongruously chipper early in the film, while giving a stilted, distracted performance in the second half; Bogart was "embarrassing" with his over-acted insanity; Nigel Bruce turned in a similarly hammy performance; and Ann Carter's adult-sounding dialogue was delivered with "lugubrious" slowness.
• Mrs Sadie Moskowitz, characterized by Mr Parkhill as "the Niobe of the beginners' grade", a large, lugubrious middle-aged lady who is baffled by the English language and spends much of the time asleep, waking only to punctuate a particularly intimidating fact with a despairing exclamation of "Oy!".
• Neil Tennant raps a lugubrious verse about spilt drinks and wilting flowers, before Dusty floats in with a raspy whisper stained by life's disappointments.
• Reveal shared the "lugubrious pace" of Up, and featured drumming by Joey Waronker, as well as contributions by Scott McCaughey (a co-founder of the band the Minus 5 with Buck), and Ken Stringfellow (founder of the Posies).
• Horton and Sim (in a secondary role) serve as the film's saving graces with some nice comic moments", and Sky Movies agreed, calling the film "a mostly dismal British farce stickily directed by former acting superstar Henry Edwards, but held back from disaster by the pawkily amusing performances of Edward Everett Horton, dithering delightfully in the leading role, and Alastair Sim, offering a lugubrious contribution as Mr Nebulae.
• David Rooney of Variety assessed that despite the bizarre meeting between film noir and gruesome fairy tale featuring "commanding perfs and arresting visuals", the helmer "encumbers the lugubrious thriller with pretentious hokum".
• " Robert Christgau wrote that Brown's "voice slips into the lugubrious so reflexively that at times you suspect clutch problems with the master reel, and it could just be that he's best appreciated over a highball—or else, like so many chart-toppers before him, in three-minute doses.
• Hussain Pointet that sounds "transposing the carnal intimations and vocal intimacy of early '00s RnB to tactile, Island-flavoured beats" with "lugubrious, log-drum rhythms of Amapiano and the bright, syncopated elation of Afro-pop", which "sometimes soars, and sometimes falls flat".

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