He tore up the telegram with an air of sullen resignation as he spoke.

The musicians played, but a mood of sullen resignation had settled which would not be dispelled.

Rafe watched Malendy's face run through a sequence of expressions, ending in sullen resignation.

That rage has faded into sullen resignation in recent months.

By the afternoon of the second day, the tumult in Ginny's mind had subsided into a sullen resignation.

Morrison found himself unable to maintain his earlier sullen resignation.

Just the opposite; the music drifts toward a sullen resignation.

Her hollow eyes look out from the canvas with the sullen resignation of an animal that has helped build its own cage.

Three-quarters starved and filthy, with an expression of sullen resignation, he made no effort whatsoever to escape.

Among the newly homeless here is a mood of sullen resignation, if not anger.