Sentence examples for gloomy notes from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Last year finished on a gloomy note with fourth quarter GDP down 1.4% on the previous quarter against the backdrop of a deepening political corruption scandal.

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.

Media stocks were dragged down by a gloomy note on the sector from Morgan Stanley analysts who downgraded the European media and internet sectors to in-line from attractive.

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.

Royal Mail struck a gloomy note in its full-year results as the group confirmed that parcel deliveries were not growing as quickly as anticipated largely due to the decision by retail giant Amazon to start its own courier network.