And there is still a big pessimist faction in the Conservative Party: stretching a sensible discussion about poverty into hyperbole about a "broken society", as the Tories have done, smacks of the old, failed gloominess.
British soldiers serve little purpose beyond getting shot at, many think.The British army's gloominess contrasts with the Americans' determination to regain control of Baghdad.
Despite its gloominess, "How We Die" was a huge success, because it addressed with excruciating honesty mankind's greatest fear.The current debate about health-care reform is in part a debate about death, which is why it evokes such fear.
IT SEEMS like Dr Doom has been feeling as though his gloominess is no longer appreciated is overshadowed, even, by the faddish pessimism that's become as unbearably ubiquitous as Justin Bieber.
Research shows that if your friend is happy, that brightness will infect you; if she's sad, that gloominess will transfer as well.
I Am The Wind by Norway's Jon Fosse – translated into unpunctuated free verse by Simon Stephens – is a bleak two-hander about incurable gloominess.
Davis, who seemed to be smiling even when she scolded the children, radiated an energy that precluded gloominess in anyone around her. Once the children have spent the requisite twenty-one dats athehe center, they are supposed to be reunited with living relatives, typically aunts and uncles.
But that's not the same as saying that the economy as a whole benefits when someone like Obama stresses the gloominess of our circumstances and the tremendous difficulties we face.
For gloominess of aspect, Bellevue is unique, with its high columns near the entryway surmounted by the words "Psychiatric Hospital" (the building's original function).
They were looking for a winding staircase with wooden risers and light from above; an old-fashioned bedchamber with a single window to the right of a long wall that was big enough for a piano; and a quality of soulful gloominess.
Amsterdam's pervasive gloominess left even the sympathetic crowd of lawyers disconcerted.
