sullen

By evening, when Hurstwood reached home, she had brooded herself into a state of sullen desire for explanation and revenge.

The door opened with a sucking hiss and out of the dark a large, gaily-dressed, sullen-looking colored woman got on with a little boy.

Asked about his past he takes a sip from his beer and throws a sullen stare across the dimly lit front room of his cramped farmhouse.

I just wish he would look as if he is enjoying his success more, even when Chelsea win he appears in front of the cameras looking sullen.

More than once he stopped and looked at these, gazing at the pretty face in a sullen sort of way.

There was little enough in him to brighten her face, for he was a sullen young fellow, and ungracious in his manner even to her.

She was anxious the next day when he was sullen again, but the next night, and on each succeeding night, the dusk worked its spell .

The blossoms she customarily wears in her hair never seem to wilt, even as everything else droops in Burma's sullen heat.

Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which had been swept by a hurricane.

After more than a year of sullen stalemate, indirect talks between the two sides look set to resume (see article).

And time seemed, nearly, to fall away from sullen, belligerent, battered faces, as though they were fleeing back to their first condition.

People who were sullen, angry, and depressed just a few seconds before lit up with delight as soon as they saw these two people.

His brown, morose face, with its sullen brows, could be clearly seen in the light of the glowing embers.

"I know it's hard, " she said, catching my sullen mood. "Think of this as an adventure. "

Minmei was gone by the time Lang and the others returned to the scientist's quarters, and Wolff seemed sullen, just as Lang had anticipated.

I rang again and a maid with a sullen face opened the door.

Her skin turns black like smoke and seems to seethe with patterns of sullen red that pulse with the demon's beating heart .

It was better than her usual sullen silence. All over an abandoned dog and pig.

I was misanthropic and sullen; I brooded and worked along, and had no friends-at least, only one.

It's like honey as well as thorns which jab the heart frequently, face sullen, tears stuck in eyes.

All were wearing traditional choson-ot and likewise had moist eyes and sullen faces.

All my attempts to amuse the children were met with sullen scowls .

And Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, Why is your spirit so sullen that you will not eat any food?

Such a sullen response is testimony, say Europe's cognoscenti, to "enlargement fatigue" .

Rowan and her scheming sisters did not want to attract notice, but their sullen silence soon had the guards giving them queer looks.

Quiet to the verge of sullen, Coolidge was a perfect foil to Harding , a garrulous playboy of a president.

Even if the occasional sullen eyes, and let you feel warm and look forward to.

In a lot of Aboriginal communities there's an air of sullen hostility.

To stimulate the spirit of the poor in sullen, lonely angst is hyperplasia of mammary gland flocculus "catalyst" .

Thereafter , Sullen whined the less , at least in Scarlett's presence .

this cut hurstwood like a whip , and made him sullen.

Blair denies he subcontracted economic policy to Brown in return for sullen acceptance of his premiership.

The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.

That boy become sullen if he is punished by his teacher.

THE RAINY DAY SULLEN clouds are gathering fast over the black fringe of the forest. O child, do not go out!

But mostly what I see is that there's glory to be found even in a sullen winter's day.

Moments later, he embraced a sullen Mr. Mahut, who hadn't lost a game on his serve since the ninth game of the first set.

One night, a spirited group made their way into the bar, chased out the sullen army grunts and commandeered the place.

Because Teddy was a sullen little boy, no one else seemed to enjoy him, either.

He grew sullen, and began to swear.

though they were now too cold and hungry to do more , they grumbled and cast sullen looks upon their leaders.

As a result he would get sullen acceptance, and often after he left, the workers would remove the hats.

"I know it's hard, " she said, catching my sullen mood.

I know. Please don't turn into a sullen teenager on me now.

A deep peal of thunder went rolling and tumbling down the heavens and lost itself in sullen rumblings in the distance .

He is quieter now than he used to be, if no one provokes him: more sullen and depressed, and less furious.

At the press conferences, the reporters were sullen. Ali would turn on them. "Why ain't you taking notice? " or "Why ain't you laughing? "

then a deep, sullen boom came floating down out of the distance.

her confidence, answering all taunts with bitter sarcasm, and all serious expostulation with sullen denial, or with floods of tears.

But mostly what I see is that there is glory to be found even in a sullen winter's day!

It took a few steps forward, and sniffed the sullen air.

A bowl of thin monkey broth simply couldn't compensate for a long day's march and left everyone in a sullen mood.

Do not appear apathetic, bored, or sullen.

You see it on the sullen faces of fashion models who have obviously been told that anger sells.

Scarlett could hardly take any joy from the kiss, so sullen was her heart at Melly's prompting it.

His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, 'Why are you so sullen? Why won't you eat? '

Sipping muddy coffee sweetened with gritty sugar, served by a sullen waiter at a greasy table, you are discussing the future with friends.

And despite sullen global economy, those seeking eternal youth are giving the luxury skin care market a new lease on life.

I have withered within me all human hope. With the silent leap of a sullen beast, I have downed and strangled every joy.

This sullen weather disagrees with me.

He saw these other scenes through drifting vapors and swirls of sullen fog dissolving before shafts of red and garishlight.

Naturally, sullen French strikers might accept change as inevitable and go home.

Instead, he sat against a wall alone, that smiling face that adorns so many advertising billboards now sullen.

A sullen stream winds its way among the trees.

But this time he was being greeted by sullen indifference.

Often developed sullen and acerbic character traits .

Jordan is sullen, Algeria unstable and Yemen seething (see article).

When once endless and tenebrous winter comes, all houses are covered in sullen fogs.

she sat enwrapped in sullen defiance; a sleeping town enwrapped in silence.

Girls hate you initially because you seem mysterious and sullen.

To look angry, sullen, or threatening.

The girl was alone, a rather short, sullen-looking young woman of twenty-seven.

One can dump a carping husband, but what of whiny toddlers and sullen teens?

A young woman, of sullen aspect, was sitting alone on the bench.

Her sullen mood seems at odds with the jubilant crowd around them.

he was quiet, but said enough not to seem sullen.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

The river waters roll by below their feet, sullen or sparkling.

Pleasure, tempt no more a dark, sullen heart!

The hills seemed rolled in a sullen mist .

In the afternoon five doctors said that they thought "Bigger was sane, but sullen and contrary. "

Heathcliff, dear! You should not be sullen now.

A short distance in front of the silent party flowed slowly the sullen waters of the river of lead.

His acceptation of a warm welcome is a sullen 'very well, come in then'.

As one moves through the layers, one may find that one is in a sullen or depressed state for months and months.

She never laughed and became very sullen.

The evicted humans are sullen and angry, like POW's.

Soon they became bowed and grey and slow and sullen.

Walk into Pakistan, and the mood is equally sullen.

From Sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate!

Sullen: What a lovely dress. I just can't take my eyes off it.

The blue eyes were reddened and sullen with weeping.

The mood among Conservative MPs is less shining-eyed and more sullen.

Nor is it walled off from its neighbours, now hosting millions of sullen exiles.

A fit of the sullen got short shrift in our house.

Susan was sullen in the morning Because she hadn't slept well.

The euphoria of victory in 1945 had long since given way to sullen resentment.

A boy of sullen humor.

Take up the White Mans Burden. Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child

some people despite the open space barren, and he had trouble with unnecessary sullen;

welcoming himeach night with sullen stares and a stream of fault-finding remarks

Expressive of a mood, especially a sullen or gloomy mood

Sometimes Albertine's face looks dull and sullen, sometimes glowing and sultry;

The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the Middle Ages

an angry, irritable, or sullen state of mind

Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long;

Wind in sullen day bothers me; its coldness prickles me hard;

hes always whining and complaining, he's so sullen

I crossed a lonely road a beggar with sullen clouds in my head

But red sullen faces sneer and snarl,

Sullen load is full; so slow on the split

Long thin slip of sullen light

A mystery so sullen in air

say sth in the sullen tone

i have been sullen and untrusting and cold

But the sullen boredom of which I have spoken was so deeply stamped into their fresh faces,