dour造句

Defying wind and weather dour.

They were exposed to dour resistance.

He is a proverbially dour New England Puritan.

She always pretends to be dour, in fact, she's not.

I'm sick of dour faces staring at me from the T. V. tower.

When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.

Some there are Think me too serious, my face too dour.

JANUARY JONES While retro-cool, this Lanvin gown was just a little too dour for such a festive night.

His dour pragmatic side is well-suited to delivering bad news and explaining how to deal with it.

A crowd, swelled by television crews, engulfed Statue Square, an adjacent plaza dominated by a bronze likeness of a dour Victorian banker.

We first meet Mary in 1976, a lonely child who's teased by the kids at school and neglected by her dour father and alcoholic mother.

On too many occasions Birmingham's football was dour and the results uninspiring, prompting criticism from the club's hierarchy, in particular the managing director, Karren Brady.

The vote is taking place amid the larger backdrop of the economic crisis, and experts predict this dour atmosphere will generally favor conservative parties across the 27-member European Union.

The Conservatives and their dour, cold prime minister have been stuck in the high 30s in the opinion polls for years, whereas pundits reckon that 42% is needed for a majority.

The outlook for the global economy this year is decidedly dour, but leading economists at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland had mixed views Wednesday about the possibility of a global recession.

Under coach Dunga, there has been criticism that a side containing such stylish and skilful players as Dani Alves, Robinho and of course Kaka himself, is playing for dour 1-0 victories.

A dour National Research Council report recently poured cold water over the notion that plug-in vehicles will make much difference on oil use or the environment before 2030 at the earliest.