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Istanbul was a bit of a freaky game. Do you think this one is going to revert back to the dour old English-Italian one-goal-in-it affair?

The dour data in the last few days have spurred talk the economy could tumble into a fresh recession.

JANUARY JONES While retro-cool, this Lanvin gown was just a little too dour for such a festive night.

Yet as we get ready to welcome the birth of the seven billionth person later this year, the mood should be celebratory, not dour.

And that's me with Youssou N'Dour, onstage, having the time of my life.

MARY LOU DiNARDO checked three times to make sure: was that a smiley face at the end of the latest e-mail from her most dour client?

That dour, delicate revolutionary and I had developed a curious relationship over the nearly four years of secret meetings in Paris.

Not far away, she espied a tall man of middle age standing beside a tree with a dour look on his face.

in spite dour warnings , he decided to invest in , that venture . i suppose it ' s case of fools rushing in where angels fear to tread.

Such activities used to be forbidden by Vietnam's dour Communist ideologues, who railed against "backward superstitions" .

He was a silent, precise man with a dour nature and a hard Aberdonian accent.

However, more dour adults may be put off by the lack of environmental concern shown in this film.

In contrast to his dour predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, Mr Zuma can charm the birds out of the trees.

Trimble could be dour and pessimistic, but beneath his stern Scots-Irish front was a brave idealist who was also taking risks for peace.

A crowd, swelled by television crews, engulfed Statue Square, an adjacent plaza dominated by a bronze likeness of a dour Victorian banker.

Let's say on the first day he looks dour, but on the next three days he's happy and chipper, even striking up a conversation.

Although these museums have not been the dour edifices, they still are dreary repositories of the nation's historical treasure.

No fans in sight , though , only dour North Korean team officials lounging on couches ahead of a team training session .

The idea that holiness is associated with a dour disposition is a caricature of the worst sort. In fact, just the opposite is true.

In a sign of changed times, Egypt's new, privately owned media rushed to question the rather dour and professorial international bureaucrat.

The colors were generally dour enough to fit into any office full of Brooks Brothers suits.

And queues outside America's dour pavilion have been among the longest.

To a Western eye, [ they ] seem poorly dressed, ill - groomed, dour and preoccupied (Peter Lewis).

Ravel Morrison settled a dour encounter with Bolton in the Manchester Senior Cup with a jet-propelled strike in the 94th minute.

Dour economic news from China, in part due to falling demand from Europe for consumer goods, also weighed on sentiment.

His dour pragmatic side is well-suited to delivering bad news and explaining how to deal with it.

The comrade in charge, a rather dour middle-aged woman in a white blouse, made the phone connection for me and then handed me the phone.

"The View from Castle Rock" starts in the 18th century in the dour Scottish borders where her family scrapes a living from soil and sheep.

When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.

Richard Dour, Nasdaq's general manager for south Asia, is based outside India.

For decades Damascus looked as dour as Bucharest under communist rule.

He appointed as vice-president his dour, dapper 74-year-old intelligence chief, General Omar Suleiman.

These are not the dour edifices of the Mao era that until recent years were thedreary repositories of the nation's historical treasures.

For President Barack Obama, who would face re-election in 2012, the dour prospects are unwelcome news.

I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T. V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?

The proverbially dour New England Puritan.

" He's low-key in the job and he can be quite dour , a little bit downcast, " says the former Yahoo executive .

He did, in fact, become a dour ascetic.

Defying wind and weather dour.

The economic legacy of the past few years means that in the 2010s much of the world faces a dour "debtcade" .

Some there are Think me too serious, my face too dour.

You have dour holes in your coat-buttonholes!

A dour look was all the answer I got on how he liked the weather

A Survey of Dour Ethnic Concepts