(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.
Raconteur
Definition:
(n.) A relater; a storyteller.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the meantime we had to share the Raconteurs' bus.
(2) This is typical Hampton: down to earth (he insists his only luxury is a yacht soon to be transferred from its mooring in Menorca to the south coast of England) and a good raconteur.
(3) White was losing his voice to a bout of bronchitis at the time, forcing Mosshart to come on stage and sing White's parts with the Raconteurs for the later dates of the tour.
(4) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
(5) He had to be content with the immense joy that he did give, apparently effortlessly; with being the most consistently funny raconteur of his time, recognised as a peer by virtually all other humorists, such as Frank Muir (obituary, January 3 1998), who called him "one of the best-loved people in the world".
(6) · Petrus Alexandrus (Peter Alexander) Ustinov, writer, actor, raconteur, born April 16 1921; died March 28 2004
(7) He was a film producer, satirist, television pioneer, theatre director, raconteur, wit and public speaker of boundless brio and enthusiasm.
(8) Saki, a big-hearted raconteur who runs Byzantium café, told me that you could nuke the whole of Europe and the two things that would survive would be Greeks and cockroaches.
(9) The relaxed, raconteur style of Hector, the old schoolteacher, was adored by the boys.
(10) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(11) Brendan Benson has played down the possibility of a third Raconteurs album, revealing that although most of the band members live in Nashville, they never get together.
(12) I liked that about it, too.” Both Raconteurs albums debuted in the UK’s top 10 and both were awarded gold sales certificates.
(13) So joyous and immense were the hopes that once rested on the actor, raconteur and humanitarian Sir Peter Ustinov, who has died in Switzerland aged 82, that the final balance-sheet of his life was bound to seem an anticlimax, both to himself and to those who saw the skyrocket of his early talent.
(14) Jack White has resumed working with the Dead Weather, the psychedelic rock band featuring Kills singer Alison Mosshart and members of Queens of the Stone Age and the Raconteurs.
(15) And on bass is Jack Lawrence, recognisable not only as a member of the Raconteurs and Cincinnati-based trio the Greenhornes, but also because of his striking resemblance to the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.
(16) The private LBJ was, by all accounts, the life of the party: funny, mimic, great sense of humour, wonderful raconteur, just a live wire.
(17) But as a new authorised biography reveals, the outrageous performer and raconteur had melancholy secrets that are only now emerging.
(18) His grandfather's sometimes risqué skills as a raconteur were supplemented by the stories Fo heard from other inhabitants of the villages around Lake Maggiore, in northern Italy, where he lived.
(19) Third Man is the home not just to Jack White's groups, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, but several no-wave and blues artists like Dan Sartain, Mildred and the Mice, and Transit, a group that comprises employees of the Nashville Metro Transit Authority.
(20) She’s an incredibly gifted as writer and raconteur,” says Cadel, “but I would like to have seen her do more acting.