In this universe, it seems the only antidote for mournfulness is sex.
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Yet there's a mournfulness to this idea, and it permeates Hail, Caesar!.
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In Margaret, a petulant, beleaguered mournfulness pushed Lonergan's emotional experiment to its furthest extreme.
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Both singers blend sweetness with mournfulness, and this is a love song that blooms slowly.
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The loss of friends and family often motivated the severity, rage and mournfulness in many of Mr. Rouse's earlier works.
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The loss of friends and family often motivated the severity, rage and mournfulness in many of Mr. Rouse's earlier works.
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Ms. Stemme, singing the opera's conflicted temptress with easy richness and pale mournfulness, is the rare Kundry who is more elegant than intense.
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It was the streets, the attitude, the vibe of the only city he really knew, pulsating with contrasting melodies of mournfulness, joy, loss, and survival.
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The mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor's mellow sound and restrained mournfulness were ideal for the anguished last movement, Bernstein's setting of passages from the Book of Lamentations.
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Passing its main melody back and forth between plaintive pianos and distorted synths, the track's sense of frustrated mournfulness is further intensified by a pitched-down vocal sample.
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It also sets a much more morose tone than the film's been advertised as having, with Robert Fripp's regal Mellotron keyboard and the band's jazzy sway establishing mournfulness instead of trashiness.
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But hear also how she shrinks her sound to a stark mournfulness in "Adieu, notre petite table," pained yet chilly as she prepares to leave des Grieux for another man's luxury.
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There's a natural mournfulness about his singing, but when it's stretched out taffy-like, as it is here, it begins to take on a wistful quality, a good match for this song about living well.
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And what I remember about Rachel's entrance — I did not know her then — was how alive she was to remorse and recklessness and possibility, a mournfulness that emanated from her being even before she said a word.
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Jonas Kaufmann, who took on the role for the first time last week in London, is assuredly the latter, with a hooded tone that brought particular mournfulness to "Ora e per sempre addio," a ferocious cry of despair.
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Well I guess it came from different place in a lot of the different cases, but I guess a unifying thread— for example, on "Keep Your Name," I was trying to amplify the feeling of everything, and just thinking about the way the sadness, the mournfulness that comes out of chopped and screwed music, when you slow it down.
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Dylan Jones: The making of a male style icon "You took the musics of immigrant America, the ballads, the blues, the rambles of Woody Guthrie and The Clancy Brothers and Dominic Behan, the cadences of gospel, the imagery of William Blake and Bessie Smith, the amphetamine-fuelled poetry of bebop Greenwich Village and the windblown mournfulness of the lonesome prairie, and fired them in the kiln of the most extraordinary single imagination ever to work in popular music," O'Connor wrote.
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The adjective elegiac has two possible meanings. First, it can refer to something of, relating to, or involving, an elegy or something that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow. Second, it can refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of elegiac couplets. An elegiac couplet consists of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter.
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Moore wrote, "Tonally, 'Oryx and Crake' is a roller-coaster ride. The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself, like someone, exhausted by bad news, hysterically succumbing to giggles at a funeral." Joyce Carol Oates noted that the novel is "more ambitious and darkly prophetic" than The Handmaid's Tale. Oates called the work an "ambitiously concerned, skillfully executed performance".
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It is not known when Liu Shi was born. His family was from Pu Prefecture (蒲州, roughly modern Yuncheng, Shanxi). His father Liu Ze (柳則) had served as an imperial guard commander during Sui Dynasty and died while serving as an emissary to Goguryeo. It was said that Liu Shi went to Goguryeo to retrieve his father's body, and his mournfulness impressed the people of Goguryeo.
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His features have been described as "plain and rustic", yet thoughtful and inward-looking. A number of art historians, including Erwin Panofsky, have detected mournfulness in his expression. The sitter was apparently significant enough a member of the Burgundian duke Philip the Good's circle that his court painter portrayed him. The man sits before an imitation parapet with three sets of painted inscriptions, each rendered to look as if chiselled or scratched into stone.
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75 Disraeli observed of the tsar that "his mien and manners are gracious and graceful, but the expression of his countenance, which I could now very closely examine, is sad. Whether it is satiety, or the loneliness of despotism, or fear of a violent death, I know not, but it was a visage of, I should think, habitual mournfulness." At home, Tsarina Marie Alexandrovna was suffering from tuberculosis and was spending increasing time abroad. In 1866, Alexander II took a mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgorukaya, with whom he would father three surviving children.
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But it's unmistakably [Boards of Canada]." He added that "the duo don't make bombastic music [...] but in the world of low-key electronic music, they're arguably the best at what they do." Brock Thiessen of Exclaim! wrote: "much like you'd expect, the track takes a sombre route, hitting those [Boards of Canada] touchstones while adding a whole new layer of updated and wicked- eerie atmospherics to the mix" and The A.V. Clubs Marah Eakin noted that "Reach for the Dead" was "for all intents and purposes, a Boards Of Canada single, complete with experimental tones and a complete lack of drums for most of the track." Nick Neyland of Pitchfork Media stated that the song is "much darker than most of their prior material, marrying the mournfulness of Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work with the swell of underground artists producing John Carpenter-indebted electronica.
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