Brooding Sentence Examples

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  • The Darian he remembered had never been brooding or hesitant like this man.

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  • She found him in the kitchen, brooding over a cup of coffee.

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  • She was in a mood for brooding on the past.

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  • This time the brows lowered to hover over brooding eyes.

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  • Han stayed with her, not moving until two Guardians—a raven-haired man with a quick smile and a brooding blond—approached.

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  • Lon shouted and waved the brooding Guardian over.

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  • Darian lay on his back staring at the ceiling with brooding golden eyes, his horribly scarred body hidden under turtleneck and gloves and socks, even in the safety of his room.

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  • The "Melancolia," numbered "1" as though intended to be the first of a series, with its brooding winged genius sitting dejectedly amidst a litter of scientific instruments and symbols, is hard to interpret in detail, but impossible not to recognize in general terms as an embodiment of the spirit of intellectual research (the student's "temperament" was supposed to be one with the melancholic), resting sadly from its labours in a mood of lassitude and defeat.

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  • In desperation you seize the budget and dump everything out, and there in a corner is your man, serenely brooding on his own private thought, unconscious of the catastrophe which he has brought upon you.

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  • All the men were attractive, yet brooding and dark, not unlike Victor.

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  • When they all set down to supper, Brandon was still brooding.

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  • First, she gets brooding about it, knows she's pregnant, knows Shipton is still alive and won't let her go.

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  • The brows came down crouching over brooding dark eyes.

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  • The brooding blond bodyguard-Guardian driving the Yukon looked at him in the rearview mirror, torn.

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  • Leaving the park behind, we head to the brooding hilltop fortress of Amber.

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  • The Dream of Herod traces an evolution from dark, brooding introspection to dawning effulgence.

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  • She swung around to find Giddon watching Allen, his expression dark and brooding.

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  • Pierre was beyond handsome with his brooding looks, wind-swept blond hair, black clothing, and trench coat.

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  • Jonny flung off his coat and boots then sat in a chair in the living area, brooding.

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  • For some years after his father's execution Govind Singh, then known as Gobind Rai, lived in retirement, brooding over the wrongs of his people and the persecutions of the fanatical Aurangzeb.

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  • At this time Tennyson was brooding much upon the ancient world, and reading little but Milton, Homer and Virgil.

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  • Rome, when it stepped into their place, did no more than safeguard its continuance; in the East Rome acted as a Hellenistic power, and if, when the legions had thundered past, the brooding East " plunged in thought again," that thought was largely directed by the Greek schoolmaster who followed in the legions' train.

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  • The intensity of intellectual and manual application which Leonardo threw into the work is proved by the fact that he finished it within four years, in spite of all his other avocations and of those prolonged pauses of concentrated imaginative effort and intense self-critical brooding to which we have direct contemporary witness.

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  • Han stayed with her, not moving until two Guardians—a raven-haired man with a quick smile and a brooding blond—approached.

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  • The german baritone, Peter Schüler, sang with brooding intensity as he grappled with Owen's darker texts.

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  • This is brooding music, often slow, taking time to unfold, embracing extreme dissonance as well as tender, diatonic harmonies.

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  • Leafy hills, sleepy hamlets, with glimpses of brooding mountains beyond.

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  • The complexion and general appearance is often defined by this, being either pale and somewhat insipid, or dark and brooding.

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  • The group chose to use the icon of batman, a brooding psychotic loner, to represent them in this.

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  • The same hefty frame, shaggy mane of hair and beard, brooding brows and Gallic bearing.

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  • I guess there must have been an atmosphere of brooding menace, or something.

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  • With wide-open eyes she gazed at the moonlight and the shadows, expecting every moment to see his dead face, and she felt that the silence brooding over the house and within it held her fast.

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  • While certain styles may dominate this seemingly brooding generation, it is also true that no particular style need be favored in order to best embody that which is considered emo.

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  • Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.

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  • Rhyn left the cell block to Toby's protests and walked with Gabe through the antechamber and into the hallway on the other side.  Gabe's gaze was dark, his air brooding.  Rhyn opened a portal, and they crossed through to Gabe's cabin in the underworld.

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  • And then there was a terrible brooding silence which followed.

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  • The magnificent portrait in the Louvre of a young man in black, of brooding thoughtfulness and saddened profundity of mood, would alone suffice to place Francia among the very great masters, if it could with confidence be attributed to his hand, but in all probability its real author was Franciabigio; it had erewhile passed under the name of Raphael, of Giorgione, or of Sebastian del Piombo.

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  • Moor Park took him away from brooding and glooming in Ireland and brought him into the corridor of contemporary history, an intimate acquaintance with which became the chief passion of Swift's life.

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  • Which brings us to Suicide Dream, whose powerful heavy rock has a natural gravity bolstered by pummeled riffs and brooding presence.

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  • It was a happy brooding, although tinged with regret at being separated for an indefinite time from her gentle aunt and dear cousin.

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  • This morning he 'd been consumed with brooding and terror, but that was transmuting into something else.

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  • Super serious, award winning, brooding actor Sean Penn is slated to play the role of Larry in the upcoming Farrelly brothers' flick The Three Stooges.

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  • What seems a little bit more strange is the fact that other super serious, award winning and equally as brooding actor Benicio Del Toro is set to play Moe.

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  • The brown version is accented with a complementary orange color, while the black is dark and brooding with a hint of white to lighten things up a bit.

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  • The term brooding is a positive description given to wine that is robust and very complex.

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  • A brooding male presides over the household - is he a dangerous lunatic? an escaped convict? a ghost?

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  • Jane Eyre was a proto-typical 'Gothic Romance', and the brooding lord of the manor was hiding a crazy wife; a fairly prosaic secret.

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  • Horror, sex, and violence can sometimes be important too, morphing them into brooding, adult stories.

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  • Books and games weren't the only places you could find women in jeopardy, brooding atmosphere, the antics the undead, devil worship, and other dark doings.

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  • They set the tone for each users page, whether it be merry and bright or dark and brooding and every mood in between.

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  • The Edward Cullen doll's face sculpt captures Robert Pattinson's brooding, chiseled good looks in the Twilight movie.

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  • He wears eyeliner to give him a brooding look.

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  • Step outside of the traditional gold and silver family for a bubbly look that borders on brooding.

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  • The love story between the brooding vampire Edward Cullen and the one human girl who means more to him than his own immortal life has a following that appeals to youth and adults alike in 39 countries.

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  • Taurus pets are strong, quiet and sometimes brooding.

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  • In all seriousness, you'll more than likely find yourself drawn to men who appear mysterious or brooding in some way.

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  • Gemini is the sign of duality; the other side of the Gemini personality can be brooding and sometimes even mean.

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  • Unlike Aries who is expectedly busy at the front lines, a Scorpio is dark, brooding and internally active.

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  • A moon in Scorpio can produce an individual who is so brooding he becomes difficult to know.

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  • The fixed and water energies of this astrological sign fuel a brooding soul, yet one that is capable of great understanding.

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  • As Scorpio ponders the depths of his reality, he can become isolated by his thoughts; the result is a brooding, poetic individual.

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  • Although not as brooding as a Scorpio, Capricorns are deep thinkers and express deep concerns regarding the world around them.

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  • Unfortunately, being a deep and brooding sign as well, Capricorn can almost match Scorpio's explosive fits, so these two signs may prove too similar in this respect.

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  • Scorpio is renowned for his temper and sessions of deep brooding.

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  • The transformation would never have been believable if not for Burton's on the nose performances first as the happy, cheerful teenager and later as the quiet, brooding and often angry man he became.

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  • As these things go, Den soon discovered he had a son who made a living as a bookie and had brooding and violent tendencies.

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  • Michael and Julia eventually leave town and the brooding executive behind.

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  • Stefan's theme is more hopeful yet retaining the brooding melancholy that marks the character's trials with his existence.

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  • A hard workout also triggers a release of natural "happy drugs", endorphins, into your system, making it very difficult to maintain a brooding or stressed state of mind.

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  • It is an amazing mix of music ranging from dark and brooding to full out heading banging thrillers performed by a wide range of great talent.

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  • She is personified as a widowed princess, bereaved and desolate, sitting amid the ruins of her former joys, and brooding over her calamities.

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  • Alex said nothing, his brooding gaze mostly on Rob, studying him, maybe sizing him up.

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  • But he took the score with him to Paris, and, as he himself tells us, " when ill, miserable and despairing, I sat brooding over my fate, my eye fell on the score of my Lohengrin, which I had totally forgotten.

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  • It is polygamous, and the male performs the duty of incubation, brooding more than a score of eggs, the produce of several females - facts known to Nieremberg Rhea.

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  • Laurencio was dark and brooding, his camera bag over one shoulder while the camera was out and ready.

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