Word: dourness
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...dressed in prim, sober costumes. Some depicted demure-looking children. All of them were taken nearly a hundred years ago. The photographer who had made them had died in his native Scotland in 1870 without ever having seen a modern film or darkroom. But he had caught the dour, moody characters of his sitters with a Rembrandt-like vividness that no present-day camera artist has ever surpassed. His name: David Octavius Hill...
Very little credit has ever gone to the gruff, dour little Chicago lawyer. He was 67 on March 15, and the most careful search of the records fails to show any major occasion in the 67 years where any substantial group of citizens or high officials (or even low officials) ever paid him any great tribute, named a street or a baby after him, sent him flowers or just told him they loved...
With his fractured ankle now well on the mend, he stumped about, a dour Scottish captain dogging his trail. But London reports had him mum and sullen, complaining at being given ordinary food, demanding "extras" for which he said he had money to pay, piqued because no Cabinet ministers had yet visited...
Stamm is thoroughly good-natured, never having unloosed a temper in his thirty-four years. Occasionally, when a class grows a little too boisterous, he tries to coll in with an expression of dour authority. But a student warns, "Temper, temper, little man!" whereupon Teacher breaks into a smile, snaps his fingers and says "Darn...
...Cartoonist Fitzpatrick spent his time last week in a happy whirl of chats and drinks, bought a painting by Max Weber. As a concession to Art, Fitzpatrick had hung two oil paintings among his cartoons: one a Daumier-brown picture of a group of card players, the other a dour, Picassoesque self-portrait (see cut). Of the latter he said sadly: "It was done in one of my blue periods, during a hangover...