When things look glum one should also remember that 80% of them actually were pretty satisfied to start with...
Sunday morning, on the Sports Breakfast, it's all seething disappointment ("it was sad, so sad" glummed one Manchester United fan, on the team's drubbing by Chelsea, as if nothing else existed) and half-hearted attempts at diverting humour.
I knew no one except a glum Parisian art student who had scribbled her telephone number on a napkin one night as we both tried to sleep in Mexico City's airport on our way to other places.
Frank's second stop is a Chicago suburb where one daughter, Amy Kate Beckinsalee), a glum, high-powered advertising executive, lives in a hideous modern house that is as sterile as it is enormous.
"I WILL be no one's hostage," promised a glum Leszek Miller, Poland's prime minister, after expelling his junior coalition partner, the Peasants Partyy, from government on February 28th.
This proves one thing: the era where a glum Simon Cowell lashed contestants with his acid tongue for our entertainment is long over.
One little girl leaping gleefully around the stage for pretty much the entire morning, while on the other end of the spectrum (and room), a glum little tyke sits with his dad's Urbanears on, watching cartoons on an iPad. .
Every new regeneration is just a stop gap for the next one, but ultimately, you're just a glum port town falling apart at the seams.
After ordering one of several flambés prepared tableside, we watched a glum, mumbling server ladle strawberries into a hot skillet and pour chocolate- and vanilla-flavored vodkas over them.
On one of my stays, my usually effusive aunt greeted me with a glum face that remained frozen through dinner.
