"Maybe you should have been," she said, shooting him a brooding sort of glance.

He was a quiet, tall, dusky, brooding sort who made no special friends, but made no enemies either.

There was a blackness about him that was not malevolent; it was a brooding sort of patience.

Admittedly, Gabriel was handsome in a dark, brooding sort of way.

And even in her present state of turmoil she could appreciate that he was a very handsome man, in a sombre, brooding sort of way.

There is an innocent humor to be found in his stories, to be sure, but they are stories that are invariably tinged with a brooding sort of sadness.

Initially, Ginger mistakenly thought Ned was a brooding, unfriendly sort, but she soon changed her opinion.

If the man ever smiled he might just be handsome in a dark, brooding sort of way, but she doubted he had much of a sense of humor.

It is spectacularly ugly in a brooding, noxious sort of way.