Sentence examples for gloomy work from inspiring English sources

The dancers in Robbins's all-female "Antique Epigraphs" looked similarly tentative in this rather gloomy work that strains a little too hard for beauty.

(Full disclosure: I first read Mr. Maguire's book after he gave my own gloomy work for children, written under the name Lemony Snicket, a very nice review).

This year's Arabic Booker prize shortlist is dominated by gloomy works about the oppression that prevailed before 2011.

Though all this may sound gloomy, other works are not.

Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy guys!

For sure, writers have plenty of gloomy material to work with.

In practice, it doesn't always work (gloomy rooms, modern building materials, a need for cars after all), but it is here that Prince Charles put his money - and that of developers - where his Hampton Court mouth was.

But ten years ago, on the remembered afternoon, he was still relatively unknown; at least, I hadn't a clue to who he might be when, arriving too early at the "Streetcar" rehearsal, I found the auditorium deserted and a brawny young man stretched out atop a table on the stage under the gloomy glare of work lights, solidly asleep.

This gloomy three-act work is certainly dark but not dull, especially given the emotive performances by the soloists when Eve Queler conducted the Opera Orchestra of New York and the New York Choral Ensemble in a concert performance at Carnegie Hall on Thursday night.

But the atmosphere, gloomy and hunkered, works on you all the same.

Lynch says he is now working on a new series of paintings – though the weather in Los Angeles this week has stalled him somewhat: it's unusually cold and gloomy, and Lynch works outdoors because he tends to use "toxic materials".