The NFL is a dour enterprise, and built on dourness.
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The first five episodes are marked by oppressive dourness, with precious little relief.
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"I can't see myself having grandchildren with her," he replied, with BoJackian dourness.
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Thankfully, the second episode shakes the dourness and gives Mulder and Scully more room to breathe.
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Her dead-eyed delivery, seeped in resignation, only elevates the dourness of the track and makes me revel in its sadness.
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"The first five episodes are marked by oppressive dourness, with precious little relief," Samantha Nelson wrote in her review for The Verge.
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The evacuation marks the beginning of the end for Idomeni, an uncontrolled refugee camp rivaling the "Jungle" in Calais in size and dourness.
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The nature of his music might suggest an endless dourness but he was really the opposite to that when he was in good shape.
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And so I found Caroline's monumental dourness, no less than the clueless attempts of the Gellman family to get around it, as heartbreaking as ever.
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Those movies weren't for everyone, but they were at least going for something, cohering in a singular metallic dourness, over-complexity, idiosyncrasies and stylish action.
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This is not a guy who takes his techno too seriously, which is always a breath of fresh air in a scene that tends toward dourness.
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The Senate embraced him, and he was hailed as a breath of fresh air after the dourness, absenteeism and miserliness of his great-uncle, Emperor Tiberius.
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Stolid to the point of dourness, the lanky, balding man oversaw a single deputy, the pair based in a cinderblock construction on the main road into town.
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" It is with infinite regret, therefore, that I must report on the veil of dourness that settles over all three actresses in "The Girl on the Train.
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Watching Rory and her two new friends delightedly raid Logan's extensive popcorn collection after a student art show is an enormous relief after the dourness of season six. 119.
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You might think the stereotypical German dourness and reverence for beer would preclude our Bavarian friends from doing much gaming, pre- or otherwise, when it comes to the Real Yellow Stuff.
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It's festive but also deeply felt, historically minded but also utterly of the now, when hip-hop has largely sloughed off its dourness, its rugged reserve and its reliance on tension.
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Whether that taps into a certain dourness in the national mood remains to be seen, but the project should be more commercially appealing than many of the laudable candidates for such honors.
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Still, Brutalism wasn't fully popular with a broad public, whose members were never convinced that awe-inspiring concrete dourness was what society was truly missing, and it ultimately depended on the good will of sympathetic planners.
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There's only so much even Chalamet can do with the single note he's asked to play over and over for 140 minutes, especially when almost every character around him is reflecting that same dourness back at him.
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The gloom hanging around the series was there for a reason; it was as if intended to diminish Sarah Jessica Parker's plucky brightness, a planned dourness that would, once and for all, mark a permanent split between the actress and her former HBO alter-ego, Carrie Bradshaw.
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While the far-right specializes in coded language—from mascots to in-jokes like "Kek" to fake memes—the far-left falls prey to the same institutional dourness that plagues its more centrist kin, from socialists to the Democratic party: It can't match the far-right's trollish glee, nor does it try to.
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He captained the side in two Tests because of injury to the tour captain, Jack Cheetham. South Africa won both matches, and Cheetham wanted McGlew to remain as captain for the Fifth Test even though Cheetham was fit, but he was over-ruled by the other members of the selection committee. In 1956, for his efforts on the tour, McGlew was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year with Wisden contrasting the dourness of his batting with the liveliness of his fielding in the covers.Jackie McGlew. ESPN Cricinfo Dourness reached new levels in 1957–58 in the home Test series against Australia: at Durban, McGlew took 313 minutes to reach 50, and the 545 minutes he took to get to 100 was the world record for the slowest century in first-class cricket until declining over-rates in the 1970s took all such timed records away. In all, he batted 575 minutes for 105, but South Africa failed to win because there was not enough time left to bowl Australia out twice.
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However, he did not enjoy his time at Ewood Park, and later wrote that "the dourness of the club matched that of the town. I could not shake off the depression that caused me to wake each day regretting that I had to go to the ground. Life was grey and monotonous". This led to him handing in a transfer request the day before the final, which he later admitted was an occasion where his "vanity triumphed over common sense".
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Britpop band Oasis performing in Canada in 2002 Conversely, another rock genre, Britpop, emerged in part as a reaction against the dominance of grunge in the United Kingdom. In contrast to the dourness of grunge, Britpop was defined by "youthful exuberance and desire for recognition". The leading Britpop bands, "Blur and Oasis[,] exist[ed] as reactionary forces to [grunge's] eternal downcast glare." Britpop artists' new approach was inspired by Blur's tour of the United States in the spring of 1992.
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Eccles robust, no-nonsense style induced him to concede more than his share of free-kicks and penalties. Early in his career he would react badly to refereeing decisions which went against him, which gave him a reputation for dourness. In the 1897–98 season Stoke finished bottom of the First Division and had to play in test matches against Newcastle United and Burnley. In the final match against Burnley both sides needed a draw to be in the First Division for the following campaign and so both sides didn't attempt to score and the match ended 0–0.
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Kirkus reviews called the novel a "beautifully composed, unflinching and harrowing story". Nicholas Dinka in their Quill & Quire review mentions that the novel has "much decency and intelligence" and both the stories of the novel are "entirely plausible" but criticises for "remarkable dourness of its prose". While Dennis Lythgoe of Deseret News noted that "Bergen's book lives and breathes the Vietnam experience"; Ron Charles in his The Washington Post review mentioned that "Bergen's ability to dramatize trauma-induced disaffection is undeniable; whether readers will want to sink down that hole with his characters is less clear". Irene Wanner of The Seattle Times appreciated the novel for its writing.
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621 While early Icelandic Christianity was more lax in its observances than traditional Catholicism, Pietism, a religious movement imported from Denmark in the 18th century, had a marked effect on the island. By discouraging all but religious leisure activities, it fostered a certain dourness, which was for a long time considered an Icelandic stereotype. At the same time, it also led to a boom in printing, and Iceland today is one of the most literate societies in the world.Del Giudice, 2008 While Catholicism was supplanted by Protestantism during the Reformation, most other world religions are now represented on the island: there are small Protestant Free Churches and Catholic communities, and even a nascent Muslim community, composed of both immigrants and local converts.
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The Madchester scene, fronted by the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets (for whom Oasis's Noel Gallagher had worked as a roadie during the Madchester years), was an immediate root of Britpop since its emphasis on good times and catchy songs provided an alternative to the British-based shoegazing and American based grunge styles of music. Pre-dating Britpop by four years, Liverpool based group the La's hit single "There She Goes" was described by Rolling Stone as a "founding piece of Britpop's foundation." Britpop was partly a reaction to the popularity of Nirvana and the dourness of grunge music Local identity and regional British accents are common to Britpop groups, as well as references to British places and culture in lyrics and image. Stylistically, Britpop bands use catchy hooks and lyrics that were relevant to young British people of their own generation.
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Reviewing Harrison's career in a 2002 issue of Goldmine magazine, Dave Thompson termed "Piggies" "whimsically foreboding" and grouped it with late-period Beatles songs such as "Something" and "Long, Long, Long" that anticipated Harrison's successes as a solo artist after the group's break-up in 1970. Tim Riley describes the song's narrative as "smug anti-elitism outdone only by the dourness of John's 'Glass Onion' and 'Sexy Sadie'". With regard to George Martin's contention that The Beatles should have been edited down to a single disc, however, he views "Piggies" as one of the White Album "essentials" contributed by Harrison, along with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Savoy Truffle". Among reviewers of the 2009 remastered album, Sean Highkin of Beats Per Minute cites the track as evidence that, despite the disharmonious atmosphere within the group during 1968, "All four Beatles were working at their highest levels", with Harrison "at his most acerbic on 'Piggies'".
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Several poets of the period—Jean Antoine de Baïf (who founded an "Académie de Poésie et Musique" in 1570), Blaise de Vigenère and others—attempted to adapt into French the Latin, Greek or Hebrew poetic meters; these experiments were called "vers mesurés" and "prose mesuré" (for more, see the article "musique mesurée"). Although the royal court was the center of much of the century's poetry, Lyon – the second largest city in France in the Renaissance – also had its poets and humanists, most notably Maurice Scève, Louise Labé, Pernette du Guillet, Olivier de Magny and Pontus de Tyard. Scève's Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu - composed of 449 ten syllable ten line poems (dizains) and published with numerous engraved emblems - is exemplary in its use of amorous paradoxes and (often obscure) allegory to describe the suffering of a lover. Poetry at the end of the century was profoundly marked by the civil wars: pessimism, dourness and a call for retreat from the world predominate (as in Jean de Sponde).
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