How often he lightened the prevailing gloom when both the weather and the serve-and-volley specialists were all too dominant.
A sprint finish at the Tour de France, a German punching through the sooty gloom after a dominant victory.
It is clear the Portugese will not tolerate much more austerity: when I was there last month it has the appearance of a placid country, where the dominant emotion is not anger but gloom.
Vocabulary: propelled, pessimism, fixation, indebtedness, unalloyed, interest, investors, manufacturers, decline, gloom, stalemate, regulations, inception, surge, dominant, stagflation, buoyed, inflationary, trumping, deficits, denominated, securities, forecasting, analysts, poised Extension Activities: 1.
Doom and gloom have been the music industry's dominant narrative since the late 1990s, when Napster and other file-sharing services threw a wrench into the system.
Gloom and a general unpleasantness are humanity's dominant tone.
Nor was there any sign of gloom and doom at the Hong Kong headquarters of Alibaba Group, China's dominant e-commerce company that burst onto the world scene a year ago when it pulled off the world's largest IPO, raising $25 billion on the New York Stock Exchange.
Rather than promulgate doom and gloom or point the finger unidirectionally at X (these have been the dominant modes of climate critics to date), Ghosh's book burnishes genres like sci-fi, exposes the ellipses of history, and pressures the political present, all while illuminating Culture's way back to rafts of rational thought.
