It was a slow dawning on it, the penny dropped really lugubriously.
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Big, florid, deep-voiced man with his polo shirt tucked into his jeans: (lugubriously) Do you have Mark Latham's new book?
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The music grows louder toward the end, but it falls short of triumph, leaning lugubriously on the low G in the final bar.
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Not incidentally, the self-serious men here are all portrayed by women, who manage to maintain lugubriously straight faces while tickling their audiences into stupefied giddiness.
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With Jeff Tweedy supporting on guitar, she moves lugubriously through a mournful march, singing breathily about the war between what you want and what you can't have.
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Stuffed into your Walkman is a compilation of smoothed-out Japanese disco, lugubriously low-rolling AOR funk, and Chris Rea classics, put together by NTS' newest recruit, Let's Get Yachts.
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So much is wrong with "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" — directed, lugubriously, by Trevor Hay on a set by Mr. Felder — that I eventually started to wonder whether it was actively passive-aggressive.
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In a theater setting, it starts with a slightly tedious video titled "A Very Special Holiday Performance in Columbine Auditorium," in which three sad young women — including Joan of Arc, from "Clone High" — perform "Memory," the soppy hit from "Cats," slowly, lugubriously and in Russian.
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The Los Angeles Times said "this hapless movie's strategy seems to be to squeeze Alistair MacLean's story lugubriously through the send- up style of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and hope the jungle scenery and desultory hamminess of Pleasence and Herbert Lom (as another villain) will distract the audience from everything else. It doesn't work."Movie Reviews Cast, Plot Sink in `River of Death': [Home Edition] Wilmington, Michael. Los Angeles Times 4 Oct 1989: 11.
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Leonard Pinth-Garnell was a recurring character played by Dan Aykroyd. Pinth-Garnell, always clad in a tuxedo and black tie, would lugubriously introduce a short performance of "Bad Conceptual Theater", "Bad Playhouse", "Bad Cinema", "Bad Opera", "Bad Ballet", "Bad Red Chinese Ballet", or "Bad Cabaret for Children", and then exult in its sheer awfulness. Aykroyd played the character nine times from 1977 through 1979, and returned for a single appearance on November 3, 2001, introducing "Bad Conceptual Theater." (The show was hosted at least one time by Laraine Newman as Lady Pinth- Garnell.) Debuted March 12, 1977.
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" In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that "the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival...feels dangerously close to a smirk...It is a smirk shrouded in shadows. An elegiac darkness infuses this production." The production is "sparing on furniture and heavy on shadows", with "a scaled-down orchestra at lugubriously slowed-down tempos..." He goes on to write that "this somber, less-is-more approach could be effective were the ensemble plugged into the same rueful sensibility. But there is only one moment in this production when all its elements cohere perfectly.
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An illustration for Young's Night-Thoughts by William Blake. The earliest poem attributed to the Graveyard School was Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death (1721), in which King Death himself gives an address from his kingdom of bones: :"When men my scythe and darts supply :How great a King of Fears am I!" (61–62) Characteristic later poems include Edward Young's Night-Thoughts (1742), in which a lonely traveller in a graveyard reflects lugubriously on: :The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom; :The land of apparitions, empty shades! (117–18) Blair's The Grave (1743) proves to be no more cheerful as it relates with grim relish how: :Wild shrieks have issued from the hollow tombs; :Dead men have come again, and walked about; :And the great bell has tolled, unrung and untouched.
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