mournful

The UK's Financial Times published a mournful requiem for the great post-war alliance the other day which ended with these words:

People have these associations of him with this sort of mournful acoustic stuff.

Woke up a little mournful about the fact that Otto will die someday, despite the fact that he still plays like a puppy.

“He said, ‘Julee, you are a child full of wonder,’” said Cruise, who also performed the dreamy, mournful “The World Spins” on the series.

Another, the "Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors," included the hauntingly mournful "Conventry Carol," a mother's lullaby to her doomed child.