Sentence examples for glum backdrop from inspiring English sources

Westfield, a global property group, is planning to build a vast retail complex on Milan's eastern outskirts.Such high hopes are set against a glum backdrop.

Against this glum backdrop is the additional challenge that the water sector is susceptible to graft, caused in large part by regulatory and policy fragmentation.

Onstage, even its (typically glum) songs about love took on a topical overlay from the concert's centerpiece: a wraparound backdrop of LEDs spelling out quotations, statistics and headlines.

Backdrop: Nightmarish.

The backdrop?

Why so glum?

They looked glum.

Against a backdrop of galloping unemployment, deep recession and worsening poverty Papandreou, who is the son and grandson of former prime ministers, has looked increasingly isolated, downbeat and glum.

In a word: glum.

Why so glum, Chum?

Johnson is glum.