What's the difference between glowering and morose?

Glowering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glower

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thank you for the congratulations,” he repeated twice, glowering at the people he described, with no great affection, as his “friends in the media”.
  • (2) In a small side room at the Guardian, with Al Pacino glowering from a poster above us, James Corden is performing a masterclass in modesty.
  • (3) General elections, however, were the time when all the grand inquisitor's talents as cross-examiner came on full display, when the televsion public saw "the scowling, frowning, glowering" Robin Day "with those cruel glasses" (Frankie Howerd's description), as well as the relieving shafts of humour.
  • (4) But the events in Iran are a stark reminder of the glowering presence of religion on the world stage, not just in the form of al-Qaida-style fanaticism.
  • (5) We sit next to an enlarged version of the author photo, featuring Schaal and Blomquist lounging in white bathrobes, glowering sexily at the camera.
  • (6) Phil Collins, looking like a builder sent to do a final check on the Wembley rebuild, glowers at the crowd and says "fuck" during a venomous version of Invisible Touch.
  • (7) For a long time, it had felt as though it was shaping up to be the most satisfying result of Mourinho’s new employment, but ultimately it was another occasion of steep frustration for Manchester United and their glowering manager, and a reminder of why Arsenal have become so difficult to beat in 2016, with only one league defeat on their travels since the start of the year.
  • (8) Mind you, he would have glowered at anyone like that in the absence of his real enemy, Theresa May .
  • (9) The glowering presence of the European parliament is already having more of an impact as it insists Barnier takes a hard line.
  • (10) Nathaniel longed to be a writer, but confessed that even as he did so he felt the burden of ancestral disapproval glowering at him for being a mere "teller of stories".
  • (11) 4.48am BST Ooh, it's a montage Bang, punch, brass stab, lights, glower, sound bite, punch.
  • (12) Henceforward their threatening, glowering poses would provoke only derision.
  • (13) The Sunflower appeared four years back, blooming where previously the Tavern had glowered – one of the last pubs in Belfast to have Troubles-era security gates (“cages”) and cameras at its entrance.
  • (14) Or if you prefer pretty pictures to fine phrasing, you could always try and scroll through the glowering, brooding, posturing and relentless graphics of the obligatory All Access documentaries that Showtime have produced in the lead up to this one.
  • (15) Claire Danes is glowering at me through a subway window with a look in her eyes that makes me want to confess to crimes I never committed.
  • (16) They use my name to sell the festival,” he glowers.
  • (17) Neither I nor my wife, who was once a graduate student at Oriel, could recall the existence of a Rhodes statue at Oxford (though she vividly remembered a large portrait of Rhodes glowering down on students inside the college) – a reminder that imperial legacies are not necessarily less pernicious because they may be less obviously visible.
  • (18) "I am no rogue officer," he glowered, "nothing could be further from the truth."
  • (19) Their enormous fanbase marches over the hill to see them and promptly march away again, leaving Nine Inch Nails facing a half-empty field, helping Trent Reznor deliver a shortish but glowering, magnificent set perhaps aimed personally at whoever put them up against Disclosure .
  • (20) Haji-Ioannou's questions were read out by his spokesman Richard Shackleton, who appeared to be a little uncomfortable as the directors glowered at him from the podium.

Morose


Definition:

  • (a.) Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
  • (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You want to explore the darker things in life – death is a part of life, sadness is a part of life - but we don’t ever want to be morose.” Later on, Phil comes back downstairs.
  • (2) I managed to view an entire seminar free of charge (though there was no sound and there was nothing useful to be gained other than looking at the morose faces of students awake before midday).
  • (3) His calm, clear and collaborative manner helped lift the spirit of a team who had become rather morose under his disciplinarian predecessor, Claude Puel , and he fostered a vibrant attacking style while remaining versatile enough to use a variety of formations.
  • (4) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
  • (5) And then GTA V is also a monstrous parody of modern life – our bubbling cesspit of celebrity fixation, political apathy and morose self-obsession.
  • (6) It is more than ‘morose’ it is a catastrophic economic situation.
  • (7) Photograph: Alamy Size: 0.03sq miles Threave Island introduced to the historical stage a character so morosely inimical there could be only one possible name for him: Archibald the Grim.
  • (8) Even when a newspaper falsely claimed that Motlanthe was having an affair with a 24-year-old, not once was he "morose, dejected, looking troubled", but instead showed "amazing fortitude".
  • (9) The early-observed improvement concerned inhibition, lack of energy, moroseness, favouring the patients' integration in the institutional context.
  • (10) Immediately following each unpleasant new announcement, Cleggsy Bear shuffles on stage to defend it, working his sad eyes and boyish face as he morosely explains why the decision was inevitable – and not just inevitable, but fair; in fact possibly the fairest, most reasonable decision to have been taken in our lifetimes, no matter how loudly people scream to the contrary.
  • (11) Anand Gopal, author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, referred to their morose disposition on Twitter.
  • (12) The group is tough but I think that when I get over this initial moroseness, I think that I will be absolutely fine.” He said that given the strength of their opponents his side, who came through an equally tough qualifying group, could not afford to try and plot a way through and would simply have to go all-out in every game.
  • (13) Local papers, watching the pennies and morosely certain that pounds don't look after themselves, have very little that binds them to the Sun or the Mirror .
  • (14) The existence of depression in young individuals has often been denied or at least underestimated particularly during adolescence, to the benefit of such other concepts as morosity, inherent in this period of life, and from which depression should be differentiated.
  • (15) He's sounding morose but suddenly someone walks past and Stanhope kicks into life: "Hey man!
  • (16) An analysis of the individual LOI items between the two groups showed that the ulcerative colitis patients were more indecisive, and also more morose, more rigid and more punctual than the duodenal ulcer patients, i.e.
  • (17) "Get yourself into a good morose state," he advises.
  • (18) O’Neill said he was “morose” after landing Italy, Sweden and Belgium in Saturday night’s draw but his side would take inspiration from the approach showed by some sides at the Brazil World Cup in targeting victory in their opening group match, at the Stade de France in Paris on 13 June.
  • (19) But amid talk of a global race in which developing nations are surging forward while Europe gazes morosely at its navel, our insecure politicians are proposing isolationist policies that have an impact on national prosperity and indicate hostility to the rest of the planet.
  • (20) There’s not a morose feeling in my school because it’s a bloody good school and people want to stay.

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