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Example sentences for: mournful

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The mournful lament of the single pipe is a sound that is always associated with Scotland, and you will certainly hear it as you travel around the city.
Terence Blanchard's music strikes the same note of mournful counterpoint again and again, and the picture teems with conscious and unconscious echoes of Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976); it could have been called Summer of Scorsese . A sequence of punk thrashing and shooting-up set to The Who's "Baba O'Riley" brings the narrative to an embarrassing halt: It's just Spike flexing his cinematic muscles, showing how much montage he can bench press.
"When I appeared in this committee room a little over two months ago," he said (mournful as the Walrus in Through the Looking Glass ), "it was merely to analyze the [Starr report] referral and to report to you.
His mournful performance ennobles Benton's conception without enlivening it.
That is the mournful keening you hear these days from about half the folks in Washington.