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Usage for saturnine


Gamely ignoring an arm injury, Keenlyside radiated saturnine nastiness and sang with black force, without ever convincing me that he was comfortably inside the music. Perhaps the tendency to shout tonelessly was a deliberate aspect of his ...

Under a glass dome in the drawing rooms of the wealthy, they looked in death as saturnine as spirits from the Styx. There they stood with glass eyes fixed upon their captures as if poised to pursue for ever the fantasies of the nether world. ...

His piercing gray-green-blue eyes had lost none of their almost saturnine and withal melancholy expression. His sons were clad in the pretty blouse suits of coarse gray linen which are so common in Russia in the summer, and white linen caps. ...

Sure, the saturnine duo of Scalia and Alito objected, but who the heck are they to talk? They just greenlighted the cops' breaking down your door without a warrant if the Law thinks it smells a joint and hears the sound of a toilet flushing. ...


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