Straight couples often argue along gender lines: the men are at turns angry and distant, the women more prone to lugubrious bursts.
An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life.
At Reykjavik, when Mr Spassky was advised between games by 35 Russian grand masters, Mr Fischer had a notebook and his own long, lugubrious, clever head. And he won.
Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman.
He originally sent two sample stories to the trustees more than 10 years ago, after producing a series of audio books, with Judi Dench as Kanga and the infinitely lugubrious Geoffrey Palmer as Eeyore.
A diffident, shuffling stick figure on stage, at the keyboard he had a penchant for lugubrious tempos, affecting profundity and a crashing, bombastic virtuosity.
He talked of reform and modernisation. Perhaps, then, Russia was finally moving away from its lugubrious KGB track.
