But its dolorousness becomes all too real.

The duel sequence has the heightened dolorousness of Bolaño's best short stories.

Flashbacks recount parent-child relationships, but the book's intriguing issues don't transfer to the screen, where "dolorousness becomes all too real" (Maslin).

Social critical Kabarett is often in an ambivalence between dolorousness and happiness while humour is some kind of key for controversial and critical messages.

Even in the most ostensibly passive of his late high-reliefs, in which the female figures have an almost fin-de-siecle dolorousness, there is energy and a snap-shot immediacy.