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Перевод: dour

[прилагательное]
суровый; строгий; непреклонный; упрямый

Тезаурус:

1. A dour defensive match finally ended in a predictable draw.
2. Her name was Annette and she seemed to do all the serving and running up and down while her rather dour and unhealthy-looking mother issued the orders.
3. The clowns of this world are often a sad and sorry lot in real life, yet Dr Leacock was seldom dour in our sketches.
4. Eton and Lancing enjoyed rather less excitement as they fought out a dour 0-0 draw.
5. Cunningham was a rationalist, a member of that more stern, censorious and dour breed that was to produce disciplinarian managers like Bill Struth of Rangers, Jock Stein of Celtic and Jim McLean of Dundee United.
6. NIGHT LIFE in Voronezh, a dour city of 850,000 people in the great Russian heartlands, is definitely looking up.
7. You glide through endless caverns of gleaming stalactites and stalagmites and all this time the boatman, dour Charon, speaks only once: "Mind your heads."
8. Part of him longed to tell her the true tale, though, sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body.
9. Gary was bolder than Hoomey, less graceful than Jazz, but showed the Nicholson family characteristics of dour determination to win through against all the odds.
10. His is not a dour presence, still less a melancholic one.
11. Most formidable of all is the Scots joiner grandfather, "dour, stern, Calvinistic a man of few words, just and honest in his dealings, but feared by his family."
12. However, the set is too dour for the great outdoor scenes of the forest near Fontainebleau, the courtyard of the Yuste Monastery or the Queen's garden.
13. Completed shortly after he got out of the university, Nice Work retreated from academe to the extent of featuring a central character - Vic Wilcox, a dour Midlands MD - who, almost uniquely among his fictional creations, would not have read the novels of David Lodge.