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75 examples of Sullen in a sentence

And you'll see the orchestra in a kind of sullen revolt.
A sullen note from an acquaintance?
The deadening pace is somewhat to blame, certain sequences drag along stagnantly for far too long, signifying very little, hinting at a director with so little restraint and narrative economy that he often feels obligated to usurp every iota of screen time possible in order to show off his production, fatal for a film that contains figures so sullen and aloof.
There's the sullen hero, flung together by fate with both his ex wife and estranged father.
I could see him fit nicely in a slot on The Sopranos where his overweight body, jowly features and sullen attitude could have found a home.
For a "comedy", Lewis' character is sullen, angry and pushy; the way he heaps abuse on his underlings makes you wonder why they would ever follow a bullying jerk like this on a dangerous mission like trying to capture Hitler.
Ok, if you like yer monster moovies sullen, stiff, starchy, and thunderously dull, but with lots of throttling, then head right for "Lady Frankenstein", a stagy, costumy Italian corpse-walker.
Of all of Ford's famous westerns, this one is my favorite which features his brother Francis and a sullen Janes Arness.
At the Tristan screening some folks were on his back for being pouty and sullen and doing the whole James Dean thing but I don't think this true.
The seldom, and quite sullen nature of investigation pulled me in, but when it flashback to the victim's side showing her final days weren't as compelling, and became somewhat stodgy and stock-like.
The tongue-in-cheek, sometimes cheesy, humor marks this film as pure 80s horror, as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like "Night of the Living Dead" or "Hills Have Eyes."
Mona, the lazy, sullen, and drug-addicted title character, is not likable and Bonnaire does little to make her interesting.
Al Pacino, a Dukakis-esque Boss with Presidential dreams, gives an oft times sullen or subdued performance.
Karloff pulls off a flawless performance as a sullen and conflicted scientist who appears to put his scientific achievements ahead of his relationships with others, even his wife.
However darkness cannot hide the film's defects.The film maker has surely not done his homework well due to which viewers are forced to watch a crude succession of abominably cruel scenes in which women are traded like cattle.Most of the actors too suffer in this film as their roles have not been defined properly.Recommendation:better watch this film and be bitter about it rather than being sullen without having seen it.
Christopher Lambert, on the other hand, never seems dazed, alternatively sullen or glowering.
Nobody here is saying, especially not Carradine (who has one sullen expression to express every emotion).
So when his father threatens to withdraw him from Welton after his successful debut in a Midsummer Night's Dream, he might argue with his father or turn sullen, but it strains credulity that he would go to directly to suicide.
Douglas is so mercurial in his angst that he's amusing unintentionally, while sullen Angeli is made up to look like a corpse in a silent movie.
That is not to say the nice cast, including the good-looking Walsh, the lovely Eleniak, and the sullen Ice-T don't try to breathe life into the thing....they do try.
It is so sullen and casual it reeks probability and reality.
Furlong, who managed to impress in his early roles with characters who had similar family of origin problems (Terminator 2, American Heart, Brain Scan, A Home of Our Own), doesn't do much here outside of sullen glares, cuss and cry "Mom!" (literally) a number of times.
The Balkan region remains sullen and politically divided, with Bosnia and Herzegovina unable to institute an effective central government and Serbia deeply jolted by the 1999 NATO bombing and the contentious independence of Kosovo in 2008, over its bitter opposition.
A sullen passivity is the most that Saddam can expect from Iraqis.
In fact, Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” which exhorted the white race to spread its values to the “new-caught sullen peoples, half devil and half child,” was not about the British Empire at all, but about the United States.
Those who could left the Soviet zone and settled in the West; those who could not faced the sullen existence of subjects rather than citizens.
Harnessing the Power of Teenage GirlsLAGOS – When you think of teenage girls, you might imagine common stereotypes, from the “mean girl” to the sullen high school student locked in her bedroom.
The Kingdom remains in sullen denial of the fact that the terrorists’ ideology – their inspiration to behave as they did – was created and nurtured within its borders.
Suppliers will not rush a delivery if they fear they won’t be paid, sullen employees will not produce a quality product, and irate customers will buy elsewhere.
" However, on this day, from the first word, he felt that there was a sullen opposition.
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