After all, the second-quarter rally, which occurred mostly in April, was something of a baby step after a morose year.
"After a morose year of venues shutting down, luxury flats being built every fucking where and record shops closing one after the other, this news comes as a christmas gift for us Londoners.
At the end of the Morose Year, Morse auditioned for a Broadway production of "Grease" and was eventually chosen as the male understudy for the national tour — a miserable job, consisting of sitting in the front row every night and "wishing ill on your friends".
His mother died while he was still in college, and after graduation Morse returned to New York to console his father, during what he now calls "the Morose Year".
The novel opens adorably, with a morose 10-year-old Phoebe toting a violin case around Whitehead, N.J.
We have the slightly terrifying mother and the slightly clueless dad (Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis) uneasily sharing a suburban house with a morose 11-year-old son and two younger children whose weirdness is meant to be endearing.
At breakfast, as she tries to read the reviews of her last novel, her young daughter, Stevie, starts to cry, because her older sister, a morose and awkward twenty-year-old unhappily stranded at home, has put on her coat too roughly.
It's totally weird, but after a quick promenade through the store, some deeply repressed part of myself that has been buried for years under a morose cloud of apocalyptic doom was finally freed.
Certainly that's what it might seem like to a comprehensive teacher faced with a class of morose 15-year-olds, menaced by male peer pressure to stay "cool".
A hundred years ago, Sweden was a morose and backward agricultural society still recovering from the legacy of terrible famines which caused one million people - a quarter of the then population - to emigrate.
I can remember flying to Manchester from Paris on Christmas Eve that year, leaving behind an almost empty airport, and a morose country.
