As Hanssen, he is formidable, saturnine, humorless a pious sadist who likes to put people on the spot.

NEWYORKER: Double Lives

Unfortunately for Mr Howard, who is charming in person but somewhat saturnine in public, too many people could see what Miss Widdecombe was getting at.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Simon Russell Beale plays Timon, a saturnine, white-haired, deep-pocketed sugar daddy.

NEWYORKER: Fools of Fortune

Like the better-known Thomas Hart Benton, Hartman depicts the smooth, sensual contours of her two figures and their saturnine cat, her minute pen strokes producing an array of subtle textures.

WSJ: Nature in America | A Landscape in Evolution | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

An intelligent and rather overcivilized caper movie, set in Montreal, which features three generations of great male actors: Marlon Brando (sounding like his long-ago nemesis Truman Capote) as an upper-class aesthete and fence with exquisite manners, Robert De Niro as a saturnine jazz-club owner and safecracker who never takes risks, and Edward Norton as a brilliant but willful young con man and criminal.

NEWYORKER: The Score