Word: dourness
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...been used as a stick to deliver a few critical raps on Billy's noggin. Much more interesting is the fact that, in parlous economic times, when the record business is suffering heavy sales deprivation and audiences are supposed to want only bantamweight escapism, two serious, ambitious, even dour, albums have scored big by hanging tough...
...screenplay to Şerif Gören, his assistant, who then realized Güney's film plan. Perhaps because of this long-distance arrangement, Yol possesses a clarity of imagery and an editorial crispness not evident in Güney's other films. It is dour but never dull; it proceeds with an assurance born of passion and technical expertise. The picture may thus serve as the announcement of an adroit new director in Gören, a canny marshaler of film machinery and actors' resources. But first and final credit must...
...good or evil; emotional shading is obscured by stolid or hammy acting; the mise en scène angles each shot like a schoolroom pointer. Moonlighting undercuts the genre's stylistic totalitarianism with deadpan comedy, and reveals its message through vignettes, moods, gestures, faces. Jeremy Irons' dour, handsome face suggests the first strokes of a political cartoon from an East European underground newspaper. Nowak is the story's narrator, its star and its sensibility, and Skolimowski challenges the viewer both to sympathize with the hopelessness of Nowak's situation and to judge his complicity...
...nation nursing the wounds of war, the inauguration of a new President offered no cause for revelry. The brief, dour ceremony only provided a grim reminder of the instability that has long plagued Argentina: in the presidential palace, Casa Rosada, retired Major General Reynaldo Bignone, 54, was sworn in as the seventh President of the military regime that seized power six years...
...darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...