Sentence examples for gloomy existence from inspiring English sources
The pair's gloomy existence lightens up with the introduction of two French, and very horny, newlyweds (Melanie Laurent, who starred with Pitt in Inglourious Basterds, and Melvil Poupaud), who move into the room next door for their honeymoon.
Desperate to break free from my gloomy existence, I applied to work as a senior mentor for the National Citizen Service, a kind of condensed Duke of Edinburgh programme for 15- to 17-year-olds.
In the summer of 1974, when she was 15, she had been granted a bunk in an exclusive summer arts camp called Spirit-in-the-Woods, escaping her gloomy, unglamorous existence in the New York suburbs, where her widowed mother and dour older sister dampened her thespian spirit.
Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy guys!
Hesiod has an essentially serious outlook on life and is an artist who deals with the gloomier side of existence, relating, in his Theogony, the bloody power struggle among the divine dynasts Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus, while his Works and Days demonstrates that, in Hesiod's immediate circle at any rate, mankind's situation on earth was equally deplorable during what he calls the "age of iron".
It was a shadowy, gloomy, almost non-existent kind of existence, not in any way similar to how it's pictured today.
In other words, his answer to Thomas Hobbes's famously gloomy statement that man's existence tends to be "nasty, brutish and short" is, in effect, that it is unfair to brutes.
Who wants to be stuck beside the gloomy Samuel Beckett wannabe, moaning about nothingness and the cold ashes of existence, when you're trying to enjoy juicy spare ribs in chilli marinade?
Still, I wouldn't want to sign off on a gloomy note, so let me sum up the unpredictability of this human existence in another way.
