Morose

The term derives from the word "morose", as in "ose, morose, even-more-ose". citation A further variant is "cheeri-ose": ose songs to cheery tunes, or treating such a subject lightheartedly; cf. Tom Lehrer 's (non-filk) "Irish Ballad".

Ex-mayor Jean Morose Viliena has also been fined $15.5m in a civil suit for alleged armed violence in Les Irois, Haiti.

Fassbender, with his morose anonymity, is the perfect actor to inhabit this role, his sullen snake-like glare emitting silent notes of rage and fear.

The morose cast of the LED bulb looks one step up from the dread fluorescent, with its grim hue supplying the gray to barely finished basements, the line at the D.M.V. and the waiting room in the E.R. Stark.

There he meets Marcia Murphey (The sensational Robyn Hurder), a women who has the same morose thoughts as he does.

Labour is hopeful and Conservatives morose as voters.

Where once I had been a lithe, happy child, I was now a morose, pudgy teenager.

But it’s anything but morose.

He ruminates on enjoying what you have before it's gone while the camera slowly pans away, leaving Conker depressed, morose, and guilty.

Roger (Adam Pascal), a morose H.I.V.-positive musician with writer’s block, was my favorite from the first moment he appeared onscreen, pouty and leather-jacketed and solemnly strumming his guitar in the dark, cold apartment loft.

That latter record used Peaceville Three doom/death as a takeoff board, adding schooled symphonic layers that were as morose as they were complementary.

Archie is a morose and gloomy man who still mourns his wife and visits his son only when he is asleep.

Four pastel-coloured parcels, basically har gau, are made to look morose and malevolent with beady black sesame seed eyes.

Patrick, 34, feeling morose and nauseated, lashed out.

In the Moss Hart autobiography Act One, Hart portrayed Kaufman as a morose and intimidating figure, uncomfortable with any expressions of affection between human beings—in life or on the page.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience often featured brief clips of the stars of the show performing comical songs and nursery rhymes as the Cure in a morose style.

Wolfhounds often create a strong bond with their family and can become quite destructive or morose if left alone for long periods of time.

Wrangel remarked that Dostoyevsky "looked morose.