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Example sentences for: dour

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5. National capital transformed "from dour city of bureaucrats into a magnet for multinationals."
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.
Denby is high-minded and dour, Lane biting, Kauffmann gentle and wise.
The old armory is now the Michelangelo Hall (Sala Michelangelo) greeting you with a dour bust of the master by Daniele da Volterra.
The merchants of Venice that were the backbone of the Most Serene Republic were only too happy to dessiminate their Oriental cargoes of exotic goods to the dour lives of Lombards in the Po valley and beyond the Alps to the courts of northern Europe.