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It is a good time to be in Japan thinking these lugubrious thoughts, because I am not alone.
FORBES: Konnichiwa! We are live.
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Then there was the lugubrious-looking newspaper astrologist Justin Toper, who is still offering "live psychic readings" on the telephone.
BBC: A serious Justin at last
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Martin Starr is a morosely unattractive Russian-lit major who complains about everything in the lugubrious drone of a campus coffee-shop wit.
NEWYORKER: Adventureland
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Rehearsals were partly a matter of figuring out how to acknowledge the losses without turning the concert into a lugubrious memorial service.
NEWYORKER: We Are Alive
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There was a lugubrious tone pervading many of the national exposition spaces.
FORBES: My Leading Indicator Is Art In Venezia
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They envied him the possession of Husna, while at the same time being mildly relieved on returning to their lugubrious homes after a few hours in her company.
NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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He applauds the shows of the 1930s and 1940s when there were stars, jokes, dances and even dialogue, most of which he finds in short supply in today's lugubrious offerings.
ECONOMIST: Noteworthy
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But he also shoehorns in lugubrious scenes from Poland, a sitcom apartment inhabited by people wearing rabbit heads, and mysterious appearances and disappearances, and jumbles the strands together as a pretentious puzzle.
NEWYORKER: Inland Empire
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Most off-putting and deadly was the show's "Jazzy" opener, choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti to some lame and lugubrious jazz-tinged music by Federico Bigonzetti, the choreographer's son, and grimly performed to a recording by Jazzy Dogs.
WSJ: Kings of the Dance, Opus 3 | Royalty Made Common | By Robert Greskovic
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Mr Cameron promised to force all his MPs to declare which family members they were employing, stealing a march on the lugubrious House of Commons machine which eventually decided to do the same for everyone.
BBC: Political review 2008: Conservatives
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Mr Varney played the perky Cockney survivor making life hell for the lugubrious Blakey, the bus-inspector, a Hitler lookalike who swore at the end of every episode to get even with him, and never did.
ECONOMIST: Jack Scott and Reg Varney