Examples of gloom

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Instead of gloom and despair, he offered optimism and reassurance.
The contrast between gloom and hope runs roughly parallel to the contrast between colonialism and nationalism in the first century or so of settlement.
The gloom in this cautionary note brought the subject of liberty to the edge of a curious inversion.
He walks in lonely gloom beneath the noonday sun.
Suddenly the clouds gathered thick, and there was a change from clear sky to deep gloom.
The flashes of brilliance displayed by a few secondary schools only served to heighten the general gloom.
Even an improvement in the price of raw rubber could do little to lift the general gloom in the share market.
A great deal of academic work has provided evidence that much of this gloom is exaggerated.
Their gloom did not lift in 1939 and 1940.
The author is not a dogmatic 'no-change-at-all' environmentalist or a 'doom and gloom, degradation everywhere' ambassador.
The work offers two key interpretations of smoke: smoke as waste and inefficiency and smoke as a source of danger, gloom and ill health.
The gloom took its toll on the nascent process of democratization as well.
Often it sags under a weight of nineteenth-century gloom.
Student unrest persisted, and numerous small revolutionary circles formed and dissolved, but the 1880s were a period of relative gloom and inactivity.
The quantity of glazing is minimised, along with its attendant heat loss but without the production of gloom or claustrophobia.
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