The mournful mood, reflecting the destruction of both a 39-year-old leader and a movement's momentum, is set by a recording of Mahalia Jackson singing "Precious Lord," just as she did at Dr. King's funeral.

Chandler was keenly aware that his once-distinctive style had been so widely imitated that, as he put it, "you begin to look as if you were imitating your imitators"; but it's also plainly a reflection of his mournful mood.

The mournful mood was sustained by a recording of a chamber orchestra playing "Ave, Verum Corpus," by Mozart.

He also breaks into the mournful mood of his piece with a less emotionally fraught subplot about art fraud.

Surrealistic, political and painted in a simplifying style, his medium-large pictures of fighting birds, gridded flags, imperial architecture, regal dogs and empty parks allegorize international politics in an enigmatic, mournful mood (Johnson).

Mr. Blanchard's disfigured quotation from "Amazing Grace," in "Malcolm X," certainly conjures up a mournful mood that matches the film.

His trademark was the impish figure Srulik, a boy in shorts, sandals and a brimless Israeli sun hat whose expressions reflected the sharp swings of the Israeli public mood: alternatively defiant, mournful, triumphant or perplexed.

In a mournful mood she took the horses around to the stables, and at last the mystery in regard to Pymfyd's disappearance was clarified.

A noirish, mournful mood hovers over the show.

Its mood, at once mournful and exuberant, owes something to the spirit of samba, Rio's great contribution to world culture.