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Sentence Examples She soon attracts the eye and organ of Jack Guard, ex-convict, sealer, whaler and hard bargainer, dour, decent, driven man. Strachan, on the other hand, was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager. School's out in an unnamed Japanese city and dour young Masao is at a loss. All vertically oriented and framed behind glass, the exhibits exuded a dour vulnerability that I didn't expect. The action takes place on Hal's stag event, an all-day pub-crawl organised by his dour friend Mr Mac. His batting is dour and unimaginative and his off breaks, like his attitudes, seldom turn. Titch, a six foot seven-inch pig-man, long haired, dour and slightly deranged is fabulous. The main tradition of our historical fiction has been rather homely and dour, with puritanism doing duty as the mother of necessity. Photographs of him make him appear dour, and he lived a monkish kind of life. Under the new regime, the stereotypically dour Aberdonian demeanour has been proved something of a fallacy. Their features were at once craggy and dour, their skin tough-looking and weather-beaten. Each evening we put into a French port, and each port greeted us with the same dour dreariness. Sitting on a long couch are three armchair athletes with dour expressions on their faces. At the very least, he's a far richer playwright than the dour tag would imply. And to think, feeble-minded utopians like myself have denigrated what should be a time of dour reflection. They are committed bottom-grubbers, with drooping shoulders, dour expressions, and unfortunate barbels, or chin whiskers. I love Whole Foods because it presents itself as a feast of sensualism, rather than dour vegetarianism or consumerism. The home side were having the better of the dour exchanges and very nearly made it count on the stroke of half-time. Paunchy, miserable, humourless, he'd be dour if he weren't too depressed to summon up the energy. The anchor is a dour and dandyish aristocrat in a bow tie who reads the official version of the news in a monotone. Show More Sentences In an era of the steady, dour beat of half-court offenses and slap-happy defenses, this Carolina team sings a pretty nostalgic song. The city's politicians and business leaders say it proves their dour reputation is undeserved. You had the peppy neo-Marxists, the serious paleo-Marxists, the dour quasi-Marxists, and, of course, the true believers, the Leninists. In addition, dour men in chef's hats will carve up smoked meat brisket, roast beef, lamb or chicken for you. All that being said, this column is not a call for a return to the dour puritan Christmases enforced by Cromwell. He was a dour and industrious man who inspired confidence and was the picture of respectability. A dour stayer, very much at home over this distance of three miles and three furlongs, he is taken to clinch the spoils. Far from being dour and dolorous, one of the clearest fruits of grace is a childlike joy. But after going upstairs for a shower he would grow uncommunicative and dour. However, given the dour nature of the contest, it appeared that summer holidays were closer to the player's minds. He appears a dour and silent man notable only for his extreme religious convictions. He can come across as intensely serious about the game, even dour in the eyes of the fans, but this is as much a myth as so much in football. Competitors will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the dour second round when there was an unprecedented number of blanks on a chilly river. Steelwork was still the original somewhat dour black, and the pine-plank ceilings made the place feel dark. However it made the first-half a dour affair and we saw just five scores in half-an-hour of action. In his dour manner, he stated that he was the foreman of the team, and called over two other men whom he introduced. This was a dour affair that did little to lift the hearts of the dedicated few who were in headquarters to cheer on their sides. It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it. In a dour first half both teams were only able to score three goals, with Nimbin holding the lead by just four points. You must be, for the whole psychological profession, which is often very dour, very serious. Show More Sentences I hate to sign off on such a dour note but I'm afraid I'm going to have to. It's all a bit dour, spindly trees where there are trees at all, and more than a few boarded-up stores. He is particularly dour about the universities, where the professoriate remains overwhelmingly attached to a familiar leftward agenda. Compaq, which employs 2,100 people in Ireland, provided some positive news by beating dour Wall Street expectations and returning a profit. Profligacy, whatever her short-term charms, is not the proper sort of partner for a dour Scottish son of the manse. Alan Craig looks like a regular Scot, not the dour miserable sort, but a wee nuggety jovial lad with a philosophical bent and a twinkle in his eye. He was the classic dour, authoritarian socialist, a masterly desk and committee politician but disdainful of and untalented at electoral politics. The exuberant, indefatigable Democrat from Oregon and the dour, taciturn Republican from New Hampshire made an odd couple. This area is certainly pretty desolate, particularly on a dour mid-November weekend when low cloud dominated and frequent snow squalls cut visibility to less than 100 metres. Even the interspersed musical numbers and cabaret performances meant to comment on and clarify the relationships involved are dour and uninvolving. And unfortunately, throughout the '90s, he was a sourpuss about the economy, so his dour warnings are not to be taken, I think, with too much seriousness. In stark contrast with the sunny personality of his predecessor, Tony Blair, Brown's demeanor is dour, recessive and technocratic. This decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry. One minute we were in blue-skied Californian summer, the next dour British November, closed-in, grey-skied, dense scraps of mist scudding down quiet, damp streets. The books usually revolved around the exploits of a Northern family, the Brandons, and in particular the dour son of the family Carter and the irascible Uncle Mort. If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded. Queen Victoria had the reputation of being a humorless, dour battleaxe, a Terminator in bombazine. Her dour father is clad in plaid shorts and black dress socks pulled up snugly along the calf. Already seated were two older men, both dressed casually in khaki pants and open sport shirts, and wearing serious but dour expressions on their faces. The second half was a dour affair with neither side looking like scoring. Show More Sentences Kunming, once a proudly dour Communist city, had swapped its olive drab for planters of zinnias. His substitutions had no impact, his halftime team talks were ineffective, and his on-field strategy remained dour. He looked like a dour, stern man and had a rather ominous air about him. In later years he sported a crew cut that gave him the appearance of a convict. The grim, dour visage added to the impression. Fun is fun, and please don't try and stop people having fun, things are dour enough as it is. She merely offered him a moody look, eyes dark, expression dour. That bluet breaks me up, tiny spring flower late, late in dour October. The opening overs have been dour with Mitchell and Pardoe digging in againstPalladino and Groenewald. If this trio smiles twice, it will be once more than the dour, warring panel from last season did. Dire, dour and disappointing are three which spring instantly to mind. The young man's friend, a dour bespectacled sort, was unruffled. Presiding over the other end of the table, with dour eyes and ponytail is Tarun Tejpal, whose second novel was recently published. Arriving in Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship, she is a splash of brash American colour against a backdrop of a dour Britain in the grip of Fifties austerity. And so the Libyan revolution was intoxicating, which is why the world watched it much more closely than the dour Syrian struggle. Then McQueen, who can come across as quite intense and dour, magnificently, jumped up and down. The four heady weeks ignited a new wave of passion for the game, and also saw a nation emerge from its dour shell in an exuberant show of national unity. Because at the same time Gordon Brown, a dour and dreich Fifer, will become Prime Minister of Engldale, as it will surely be called. In the 1950s, the rather dour period of British pictures, Harris, while under contract to J Arthur Rank, enlivened and brought style to many a production. Aberdeen folk have Doric dour as their default demeanour but for weeks you couldn't waterboard the smiles off their faces. Gordon, the dour son of the manse is, as someone once said or wrote, entire unto himself. Show More Sentences Yet even dour, pompous preachers and teachers can make valid points. But a 17,121 West Riding crowd witnessed a dour tussle which prompted a slow handclap from the blue and white contingent. Yet the dour, hitherto inflexible Brown found the moral courage to join in a coalition with Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier to save the union. Fourth, Gordon Brown is a dour, dithering, dry, dislikeable loser. Meanwhile Nadia Kamil's debut Edinburgh, Wide Open Beavers, was did extremely well across the road in Stand 4. The show's title, Kamil claimed, was meant to distract people from the dour topic. But there are several hurdles: With most voters fretting about the dour state economy and a budget crisis, the next governor may be uneager to plunge into a potentially divisive debate about same-sex marriage. Even his name conjures up images of the dour Midlands and a time gone by. Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy. The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour. I watched as she changed from a dour sick thing to a strong healthy bird, feathers casting off their dull, rotten brown with sea salt watermarks to become deep slate blue. The opening five chapters of Waverley are often thought to be dour and uninteresting, an impression in part due to Scott's own comments on them at the end of chapter five. A dour turning in this era of ultrasecurity has motor vehicle officials in four states banning open-faced smiles on photo identification licenses. A simple revisit to Rust Cohle's dour determinist world view and another slice of southern gothic murder mystery would have smacked of money for old rope. Comrade Tof had 21 years as the Castro of AKEL, while his predecessor, the dour commie, Ezekias Papaioannou died in the job after 40 years of Stalinist rule. The first half would have been the idyllic remedy for those plagued by insomnia, as both set of players did their utmost to deliver a spellbindingly dour performance. Offering an imaginative alternative to dour macho rock, Warpaint are the all-female four-piece who released their dreamy, self-titled second album earlier this year. To compound matters, he has also had to contend with being characterised by some sectors of the British media as a dour, surly and dislikeable Scot. Examples from Classical Literature When they were so poor and the future so dour, how could she keep from earning a little money? He was a silent, precise man with a dour nature and a hard aberdonian accent. The sun waxed hotter and hotter, yet somehow she preferred the shadeless glare to the dour interior of the hut. David Clegg broke the stalemate for Hartlepool with a 15-yard shot five minutes from time in a dour clash. In 1992, he travelled to Chicago to study motivational science yet found the happy-clappy language of the Americans untranslatable to dour Scots. The Scot swapped his usual dour glower for this moody and magnificent look in a high-end photoshoot. Nobody was surprised, since this dour officer had been in trouble before. Grim, dour, silent, it waited for the beginning of hostilities. Wee dour looking huiks are the thing, Mouse body and laverock wing. But a whole movie's worth of this dour dithering eventually devolves into uncomfortable self-parody. Dough-faced Ken Storr is replaced for this series as the more photogenic but equally dour Marc Warren comes back to take charge. He managed to continue work till nine o'clock, and then marched dumb and dour to his chamber. He held my friend's card in his hand, and he looked up with no very pleased expression upon his dour features. But if you think Chelsea are dour you haven't watched Liverpool where these days they reserve the loudest cheer for the full-time whistle. He seemed to regard her as a kind of Boeotia, and terrifyingly dour. The most popular persona so far seems to be Killjoy Kerry, as depicted in jokes about his long face and dour demeanor. A most curious, dour, and moody man, with a mind roving from key to key. But even watched pots will boil in the fulness of time, and finally Christmas day came, gray and dour and frost-bitten without, but full of revelry and rose-red mirth within. Headlines in the computer and business trades swing from upbeat predictions that desktop video has arrived to dour pronouncements that it will not fly, at least not yet. Find more words! 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