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A mournful dirge that indicated just how disheartening the afternoon had been.
As I sat in my car, listening to the news, I felt helpless, even mournful.
Source: https://www.hcn.org/articles/essays-we-need-to-reframe-our-thinking-about-whats-wild
But that works for a story about a young man in a hurry in the first act. And as both the music and the story take on more mournful hues in the second act, so, too, does Gonzalez’s performance.
Source: https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/theater-review/the-room-where-it-happens-again/
But this was authorial sleight of hand—a decision, by Neihardt, to close the curtain on a mournful, elegiac note.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-siege-of-wounded-knee-was-not-an-end-but-a-beginning
Episode 35 has a mournful note because realizing who the Moon Princess is means confronting the tragedy of the past.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/important-sailor-moon-episodes-season-1/
I suddenly began to feel profoundly mournful that this day — with its incredible beauty and innocent gaiety — could now be totally lost in time.
Source: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/12/the-present/
It is bleakly gripping – mournful cellos yes, humour no – as kidnapped children and temporal conspiracies abound, but its depiction of regret and inevitability is also tragically beautiful.
“It’s just got this really mournful sound that accompanies some of the songs I do quite nicely,” Churcher said.
It’s not just pure fluff, but it’s certainly not mournful.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/arts/thirsty-suitors-video-game.html
“Obviously, I’m washed up,” she says — a joke with a kernel of truth she explores in “Guts’” mournful closer, “Teenage Dream,” in which she cops to the “fear that they already got all the best parts of me.”
The first half of “Layla” was a high-volume showcase for Clapton and guest guitarist Duane Allman, the second half a mournful piano coda of disputed origins.
Source: https://ktar.com/story/5473515/jim-gordon-famed-session-drummer-who-killed-mother-dies/
The nine-person orchestra — guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, some mournful strings — stays silent, too.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/theater/the-outsiders-review-la-jolla-playhouse.html
The pieces are colorful, hyper-personal and mournful at the same time, signaling the ebb and flow of memories and the lasting power of faith.