Sentence examples for gloomy note from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama and other leading Democrats sounded a gloomy note.

His day started on a gloomy note, when a Florida court issued him a setback.

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.

This season appeared to end on a gloomy note but, in horror terms, this was a happy ending: the costs were high but nearly everyone survived.

Writing in Quartz, an admirable sister publication of the Atlantic magazine, the other day, the experienced technology watcher Christopher Mims struck a gloomy note.

Turkey's stockmarket is the best performer, up by about a fifth.The Bank of England struck a gloomy note when its governor, Mervyn King, gave warning of a "difficult and painful adjustment" for the British economy.

As you read through the names which, great and small, form the 20th century's poetic roll of honour, the introductory biographies (excellent throughout) strike repeatedly gloomy notes of censorship, banishment and worse.

Although Mr. Bloomberg has been speaking candidly for months about the city's fiscal crisis and Governor Pataki has sounded his own gloomy notes in recent weeks, the possibility of a transit strike gave New Yorkers appreciable proof that these troubled times might leave no one untouched.

On relative upward social mobility, he is also gloomy, noting that the child of a higher professional or managerial father is now as many as 20 times more likely to achieve similar status than a working-class child is to achieve that status.

Many analysts sounded a gloomier note.

In a speech today, Mr Osborne will strike a far gloomier note on the British economy than he did at the Autumn Statement in November – warning of a "dangerous cocktail" of global risks that could derail the recovery.