| Then she came wriggling back, with repentant doleful eyes starting upward and a knife behind her back. |
| Knowing nothing about my departure, the faithful animal still waited for me as usual, its eyes getting more doleful each day. |
| Along the way they find the time to take in a Blind Willie Johnson blues number, a doleful love song in French and an old-time Appalachian ditty. |
| He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry. |
| It reminded me suddenly of the reason why people say that the bell in Nanjing tends to be more doleful than those in other cities. |
| Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project. |
