After 1887, likely after a personal illness, his thematic became melancholic, even lugubrious. Dawson's style as a comic was world-weary, lugubrious and earthy. His lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years. His existential, lugubrious images after 1968 employed a limited palette. Was it really so lugubrious and uplifting? To which one responds, after two lugubrious hours in their company, really awful. All we can see now is a lugubrious and mercenary old man. Robert Christgau deemed the song "psychotherapeutically lugubrious" and confusing. Carter is in a middle of divorce and becomes lugubrious.