Sentence examples for glum existence from inspiring English sources
Though it was going to mean a pay cut, and a move to the land of million-dollar fixer-uppers, the job seemed to be a good way out of what was becoming a glum existence.
6: Don't live in High Wycombe/ Luton/Beeston/Walthamstow Up until a couple of weeks ago, High Wycombe had a happily glum existence as one of Britain's many crap towns.
RED ROAD Andrea Arnold wrote and directed this spare Scottish thriller, in which Jackie Kate Dickiee) leads a glum existence as a security guard who spends most of her time monitoring a bleak patch of Glasgow slum land on a multitude of TV screens.
And as the movie flashes back and forth between his glum grown-up existence and an adolescence that the movie remembers in shimmering shades of sun-washed green, we follow the idyllic relationship of the teenage Sam (Lindley Joyner) and his sweetheart, Silvy (Brooke Harmon).
At any rate, having launched Gauri on this course of action, the novel toils on through several more decades of its ramifications, chronicling Bela and Subhash's largely unhappy existences in a glum narrative of withdrawal, rejection, isolation and guilt, all done with Lahiri's usual tasteful restraint, though I have to say that in this instance even this virtue becomes problematic.
But it verges on being unwatchably glum.
This time, there is no Brazil; no Christie, no McMaster, no Todd; merely the glum prospect of Tony returning to his errant wife, and the resumption of their stony existence.
