Martin Starr is a morosely unattractive Russian-lit major who complains about everything in the lugubrious drone of a campus coffee-shop wit.

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Rehearsals were partly a matter of figuring out how to acknowledge the losses without turning the concert into a lugubrious memorial service.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

There was a lugubrious tone pervading many of the national exposition spaces.

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