Wall Street ended Wednesday with a narrow gain but a dour feel.
In the Britain of 1985, riven by a miners' strike and by continuing unease over the siting of American nuclear weapons on British soil, "Edge of Darkness," all downpours and dour moods, felt true to its title.
Ominously, thugs attacked Mr Nayeem, who ran with the Poroshenko Bloc, and several of his colleagues on election day near Kirovograd, where they had been campaigning against a corrupt single-mandate candidate aligned with their own party.Kiev, where Mr Poroshenko reappeared in a snappy suit to vote, felt dour and subdued.
"It felt very dour, yes," Timothy said.
On its own terms, the production was an engrossing, intricately disturbing entertainment, but in the end it felt needlessly dour, and the visual scheme, dominated by black and gray, proved tiring.
The less dour aesthetic possibilities of felt hit me several years ago via an unforgettable cluster of little felt reliefs hanging in a hallway of an art building at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.
We taxi past the world's biggest airport terminal, which will open here tomorrow.When I first travelled between Beijing and Pyongyang two decades ago the gulf between these two communist capitals was already so wide that arriving back in Beijing, dour though it then was, felt like a return to the free world.
He will get another chance to inflict wounds upon his old club in the replay that will follow the dour 0-0 draw but the homecoming felt particularly significant.
Perhaps what this symphony's success shows is that there is an audience for works -- even rather dour ones -- that are both deeply felt and easily assimilated.
But by the film's end, after watching a seemingly infinite number of dour close-ups of sober self-evaluation, I felt bludgeoned by thesis-driven dialogue and noble intentions.
