| Mr. Oldman gives the movie, which at its most serious veers into lugubriousness, a nice jolt and a flinty presence that Mr. Washington can spark against. |
| At times, Mr. Capuçon lapsed into unabashed lugubriousness — that can be hard to avoid in the slow movement — but in the finale he regained the focus and zest that had enlivened his performance of the opening Allegro. |
| And if you know the 1958 book, to which this production is much truer than the film in details of plot, you may still be surprised by the atmosphere of lugubriousness that hangs over the show. |
| The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner. |
| The neighborhood appealed to me, particularly at night when the full squalor and lugubriousness of it made itself felt. |
| Unfortunately, some other songs tend towards the kind of treacly lugubriousness that gives country music a bad name. |
