(1) It is a plaintive, understated effort infused with dolour and an air of vulnerability.

(2) I thought she might be a little subdued by a Monday morning dolour - as most normal people are - and discreetly removed my phone receiver from its cradle.

(3) They squatted, hunched in their habitual dolour

(4) It shows weedy tangles of wildflowers lifting their leaves sunward as spring advances and winter's dolor is shucked off for another year.

(5) Smith circles his themes with the obsessive dolor of a man lamenting a lost opportunity, spawning gorgeous, tangential what-ifs and could've beens.

(6) Following that exchange, his dolor and lamentations were both replaced with one sensation: rage.