Rosa Luxemburg

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Russian Activist

Will Self

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

English Author

Gary Hume

I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

English Artist

Terry Pratchett

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Alan Moore

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

British Writer

Richard M. Nixon

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

American President

Walter Kirn

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

American Novelist

Martin Landau

I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.

American Actor

John Milius

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

American Director

Used to describe the weight and slowness caused by tiredness or physical burden.

Physical Fatigue

Expresses the sluggish movements due to a person's sadness or despair.

Emotional State

Conveys a mood or atmosphere that is dull and lacking in energy.

Atmosphere

Can describe something that is similar in color or dullness to actual lead.

Dull Appearance

Often used to describe the sky or clouds when they appear heavy and suggest coming rain.

Impending Weather

Used to illustrate the heavy or dull sound of something, metaphorically heavy like lead.

Metaphoric Sound

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Leaden