Guscott gave an often dour side a much-needed element of glamour, offering a forward-dominated outfit some sensational running from behind the scrum.
The second half was largely a dour affair and it quickly evolved into a midfield scrap.
These near misses could have crushed a lesser player, but the dour Lendl preaches a Nietzschean approach to tennis: that which does not kill you makes you strong.
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The first clash between fellow Premiership contenders Chelsea ended in a dour nil-nil draw but the return match at Stamford Bridge was a model of flowing football.
It is true that bad economic data is putting a dour mood on stock investors.
There was a distinct lack of swagger about the hosts' play in a dour first half.
At the same time too much seriousness makes for dour countenances and a dispirited workforce.
Amid a dour economy, all of them drew in better than expected viewership.
Astonishingly, it was 0-0 at The Willows at half-time in a dour game.
It was a dour bunch of oil refining executives at the Deutsche Bank refining summit in Boston earlier this month.
Walking in I pass a dour-looking lady, clipped to the machine by her affinity card, mesmerized by the spinning wheels.
Mr Hazare is himself a dour neo-Gandhian using, as analyst Vinay Sitapati says, "Gandhian motifs and methods, without Gandhi's political imagination".
After a dour start, the Tigers came to life with two tries in five minutes from Shane Jennings and Ian Humphreys.
In a dour first half, Maxi Rodriguez hit the bar for the Reds, while Roger Johnson headed over at the other end.
It was a rare highlight in a dour first half - although James was also called into action to keep Pompey level as Fulham pressed.
But the half-time team talk from the former Scotland coach seemed to do the trick for Preston, injecting some much needed life into a dour encounter.
The picture is juicily well acted, however, particularly by Oldman, whose congressman is physically mediocre in every way yet possesses a dour firepower that never lets up.
Etherington should have scored Stoke's opener at Ewood Park, but he somehow managed to skew a left-foot volley wide from inside one yard during a dour first half.
Britain after World War 2 was a dour place.
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But either side of tea, the spectators were treated to a dour period of play, with Amla and Ashwell Prince unwilling to up the scoring, putting on 72 in 28.2 overs before the declaration came.
And by the time she was nine, she was in a reform school and was sent to the House of Good Shepherd for Colored Girls in Baltimore for a year, which was quite a dour place, I think.
Worship continued at St Luke's, a dour Victorian church in the centre of the town. but then, after months of discussion and argument, it was decided to knock that down to make way for a church and community centre.
The players failed to find their club form as England were held to a 1-1 draw by the United States in their World Cup group opener on 11 June ahead of a dour scoreless stalemate with Algeria on 18 June.
The dour reports came a day after two prominent academic economists, Carmen Reinhart, of the University of Maryland, and Kenneth Rogoff, of Harvard University, suggested housing might not bottom until 2010, which bodes poorly for struggling financial institutions that still hold trillions in mortgages, according to Reuters.
It seemed to me to be a different world yet it was simply a dour hillside quarrying village producing stone for all kinds of industrial purposes - the finer, harder types for grindstones for the 'little mesters' of the Sheffield cutlery trade and for lining furnaces in the steelworks.
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Speaking alongside other G8 and G20 delegates at the Forum d'Avignon this weekend, Sarko affirmed his commitment to setting up a "national music center" within France, in the hopes of spurring artistic creativity amid a rather dour industrial climate.
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But while Ruth seemed congenitally dour, Daphne had a quick smile and a sunny disposition, and most of the time she simply laughed off the steady stream of jibes about her pregnancy, accepted them as just a bit of fun being poked within the bounds of friendship and family.
Investors were more than happy to ignore a collection of dour economic data.
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