Sentence examples for gloomy scene from inspiring English sources

Approaching from the towers across the street, visitors will enter a tranquil reading garden, a little paradise walled off from the gloomy scene that surrounds it.

"If others thought him 'a blot,' he was a bright one," she writes, subtly quoting Shelley's sonnet "Lift not the painted veil": "through the unheeding many he did move, / A splendour among shadows, a bright blot / Upon this gloomy scene".

It ends (about three weeks before Julia's death) with a strange, gloomy scene of two women in an attic room at sunset, a writer and an editor, with a band playing "Auld Lang Syne" in the distance.

Surveying the gloomy scene Busner remarked testily: 'First we send these poor souls out to flap around the streets, and now we have nowhere for them but this if they're lucky enough to come home to roost.' Mukti grunted noncommittally – nearby a bored charge nurse stood, compulsively clicking a retractable Biro.

Rodgers and Hammerstein were also concerned about what they termed "the tunnel" of Molnár's second act a series of gloomy scenes leading up to Liliom's suicide followed by a dark ending.

"The programme is doomed from the outset," it intoned, "with its gloomy tune and grim scene of a row of terraced houses and smoking chimneys".

The Chilcot report notes that in volume four of his diaries, Alastair Campbell wrote: "Eliza [Manningham-Buller] gave a very gloomy picture of the terrorist scene here, said that even though al-Qaida were not directly linked to Iraq, they would use an attack on Iraq to step up activity here.

The Knicks in the 1970's were one of the few bright spots in an otherwise gloomy urban scene.

I was strangely tickled by the way that Frank chirpily replied "110%," after Elena asked him how he was during an incredibly gloomy kitchen scene.

The prospect of joining that group, which today comprises 10 labs in the Center for Chromosome Biology, combined with increased science funding in Ireland and a gloomy funding scene in the United States prompted Sullivan to move.

He offered a gloomy picture of just a few men with little forensic training covering huge areas by bicycle or on foot, sometimes arriving at the scene of a murder long after the body had been removed.