ICELAND'S central-bank governor, David Oddsson, recently gave a gloomy speech, calling conditions "harsh and often stormy".
The Fitch announcement followed a gloomy speech by George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, in Parliament on Wednesday.
"I don't think that we're going to find many terrorists," he says.FridayON FRIDAY morning, 1,200 miles later, I join a hundred of El Paso's civic and business leaders for scrambled eggs and a gloomy speech about the economy.
In his gloomy farewell speech, Mr. Bouchard complained bluntly, "Québécois have remained stunningly impassive before the federal offensives".
She was, however, able to strike sunny, optimistic, patriotic notes to contrast with Trump's gloomy acceptance speech at his convention one week earlier.
Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy guys!
Yet Americans may have become too gloomy: Mr Obama's speech could be the latest in a series of small signs that things are getting better.In this section The triumph of Vladimir Putin Deal or no deal?
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.
Even the talks' host, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the leader of Libya — who in the span of a few years has gone from pariah to peacemaker, or at least aspiring peacemaker — was decidedly gloomy in his welcome speech.
Though his convention speech dwelled on gloomy themes, Nixon did something else, too: He spoke poignantly about his dreams as a boy growing up poor in California, and he appealed to highly educated suburban voters who have eyed Mr. Trump with deep suspicion.
