Words similar to brooding

Example sentences for: brooding

How can you use “brooding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The 81-year-old author's latest is admired as a "mature work": same old Bellovian subject (Jewish man brooding over a woman), but a more subdued, elegiac tone.
The New York Review of Books complains that Dunne is too breezy: "This is what makes him so readable, but it doesn't give him a voice for brooding."
Grit is advised rather than brooding in hard times.
There is an innocent humor to be found in his stories, to be sure, but they are stories that are invariably tinged with a brooding sort of sadness.
The image is forceful and brooding, celebrates heroic labor, elides the personalities of its subjects--and it was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was soon to remove himself and his talent to the safety of New York City and Life magazine.