But for all its warmth, and for all the cheerful light generated by the gas and the flickering wood fire, the parlor too seemed to lie under a pall--the pall of Margaret's dour and volatile presence.

Though Mednis was a dour presence, plodding, weirdly disembodied and deep into his analysis, he quickly became a household name.

He focused on Quaan's dour presence, found the Warmark on a balcony overlooking the watchtower and the night soot of Satansfist's army.

Mr. Alekseyev - armed, like so many other alumni of the Moscow Conservatory, with a big technique - proved a dour presence, churning out Prokofiev's "Visions Fugitives" (Op.

Already Kris missed the dour presence of Sandy at her hearth but Bart was present, and evidently in charge of the catering.

Mr. LaPaglia, with his bulky, dour, almost-handsome presence, is able to suggest a range of feeling that has been drained from Leon by the onset of middle age.

He continued to keep a watchful eye on our companions, but the lessening of tension had affected them, too; I began to lose my fear that they might suddenly lose patience and string us up, Tom Christie's dour presence notwithstanding.

There was the dour presence: the big, jutting, unsmiling face; the thin, cold features.

Her dour presence did not excite the crowd as much as some of the others.

His is not a dour presence, still less a melancholic one.