The community should take care early that secret feelings are avoided, that the child is cured from all sullenness which stores up the emotion instead of discharging it.
Lip make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt.
To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
Sullenness seems to be an habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary sullenness.
Her natural sullenness of expression was intensified as she walked slowly along her way, for certain friends of hers had pointed out to her that she was wasting her time.
I heard her cold tone and looked upon her unmoved face, how bitterly have I turned away with all that repressed and crushed affection which was construed into sullenness or disrespect!
Suddenly all he had ever felt for her swept through his being, and sullenness fled away.
A certain sullenness which Rudyard and no one else had ever seen came into her eyes, and her lips became white with an ominous determination.
The feeling that everybody was against her, that she was on the road to being what the world calls an outcast, gave to her life an element of sullenness and of despair.
All these disadvantages increase the sullenness of the timid, who are overcome by the sense of their own physical weakness, which they know has its origin in a condition of mind that they lack the power either to change or to abolish.
In the ranks of the enemies of poise sullenness most certainly finds a place.
The younger man laughed, but not merrily; and there was a tinge of sullenness in his tone as he answered, "Nothing!
With a sullenness that was new in him, he said, No, he had not.
Yet it was no result of sullenness on either side, least of all did it breed any ill-feeling on Mary's.
I could not talk much while I was with you but my silence was not sullenness nor I hope from any bad motive; but in truth, disuse has made me awkward at it.
He has already shown a timorousness entirely alien from his ordinary sullenness of nature; he, that would scarce wash his hands after he had slain a man, is now afraid to see a dead body bleed.
Philip caught sight of the husband's face as he looked at the tiny pair lying side by side, and there was a ferocious sullenness in it which startled him.
Yet all these refusals did not open the eyes of this credulous great young man, who still believed it the sullenness and generosity of his temper.
There was something else besides sullennessin his face this morning, something which Mr. Fentolin was quick to recognise.
To a natural sullenness was added now the nervous distaste of one who approaches a disagreeable task.
But, with that depth of love which was in him, albeit crusted over and concealed by the sullenness of speech and manner which his sufferings had produced, he found excuses for her even then.
His passenger sat on the rail and gave the pacing captain occasional glances in which irony and sullenness were mingled.
I know you are, Captain Downs," declared the young man, his sullenness departing.
Shortly after, when he sat down to his breakfast the grin had disappeared, but with it had gone the look of sullenness that had seemed habitual.
Enoch was sullen as they started on but his sullenness did not last long.
He had been given several minutes grace in which to meditate upon the unwisdom of defiance; and he had seen the bug-killer change abruptly from sullenness to terror, and afterward to abject obedience.
These are cases of an extreme kind,--cases of moroseness and sullenness which neither reason nor Scripture justify.
We must avoid sullenness on the one hand, as we would jesting on the other.
But somehow the song fell flat; the contretemps about Verena, or perhaps the sullenness it had left on Sir Dace, produced a sense of general discomfort; and nobody asked for another.
Stephen Radcliffe for a moment forgot his sullenness and his temper.
He never sought, as many another king in such duresse would have done, to weaken his minister's influence and authority by showing open sullenness and dissatisfaction.
