It's a stark contrast to gloomier attempts to tackle the period, such as Oscar-winner The Lives Of Others, even if the mood does gradually darken to reflect the times.
Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy guys!
These diagnoses cast a gloomy light on attempts to divide scientific labor between gathering evidence and determining the degree of confirmation (value-free) and accepting scientific theories (value-laden).
And Mr. Stewart, as the overweening Thane of Cawdor, and Kate Fleetwood, as his nervy and nervous wife, give all sorts of deliciously shady undertones to the question "What's cooking?" Mr. Goold's technology-dense interpretation occasionally strains in its attempt to turn gloomy medieval Scotland into gloomy Stalinist Russia.
In "Jailed for Journalism" (Op-Ed, Aug. 31), Rodney Sieh attempts to paint a gloomy picture of free speech and the practice of journalism in Liberia.
The problematic Fourth Symphony, swivelling inconsequentially between neoclassical austerity and tentative lyricism, was written in the aftermath of the second world war and attempts to escape the gloomy mood of its times by evoking earlier happiness in Basel.
The idea that fires could be excluded entirely from millions of acres was generally regarded as preposterous and the most gloomy pictures were drawn of any such attempt.
But they're also a sight for sore eyes on particularly gloomy days or when I'm about to attempt something out of my comfort zone.
He was sensitive about his Italian and was frustrated with each attempt at conversation he had with her; so they sat in gloomy silence until she offered to cook dinner for him.
The irony, as far as Ole Sondberg is concerned, is that, in the Swedish Wallander, there has been a self-conscious attempt to introduce more humour and to escape from the stereotype of gloomy Swedes.
