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' The modern sense of ill-humored or rudely morose dates from about the mid-17th century, but the “u” spelling had taken over about a hundred years earlier, perhaps, one fancies, as an act of revenge by the churls.
After the morose twilight years of the Sun King, the societal tone changed with the satiric pen of Voltaire and the erotic fantasies of Watteau’s paintings and Marivaux’s comedies.
About Schmidt , his new book which explores the dwindling years of a morose retired lawyer, a man who calls himself "the last of the Wasps," offers some of his most delicate writing yet, but once again involves Begley in the paradoxical task of giving expression to repression.
Stiller, who struggles to turn his self-hatred into other-hatred, makes a hilariously morose seether, and Azaria is poetically twitty--he recalls Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian.
Most of the accounts are morose, but a British writer in the Times opines that the Alps are exacting revenge on greedy tourists for exploiting their natural beauty.