The result could add up to a big bore, especially as director James Ivory refused to move things along at anything other than a funereal pace. |
Later on, they go over to Harold's place, where funereal choir music is playing as everyone marches in, white-faced, for cuppas. |
These days the Trace is a bitumen road, grass verges neatly manicured and mowed for mile after funereal mile. |
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. |
With slow tempos predominating, they are sober, even solemn works, but hardly funereal, and never monotonous. |
A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction. |