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They were more textured and hopeful, the question behind them less dour: What kind of nonmaternal care can help infants and children?
And on it goes, the show doing battle against our dour memories of those so-called anni horribili with a self-referential perkiness that would do Disney proud.
Prince Charles looked suitably dour, boarded Britannia , and departed Hong Kong.
“The Murphy Marathon,” and in the 1920s endurance dances were regularly called marathons (the earliest such reference, surprisingly, comes from dour Scotland's Glasgow Herald in 1923).
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).