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Franklin grew up in isolated bush regions of New South Wales that were much like the glum setting of her first novel, My Brilliant Career (1901; filmed 1980), with its discontented, often disagreeable pioneer characters; yet, she was passionately attached to these regions.
If only Noto had portrayed his tightly-wound characters and glum setting with a bit more dimension and finesse.
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From that opening scene in the office, people roared with glee, and Jack gave them just enough — a glum set of the mouth, a tremor of the eyebrow — to signal that, while inhabiting the corporeal person of Schmidt, he himself was floating somewhere above and beyond the poor fellow's predicament.
Jabber (Ghassas Abbas) is a glum, heavy-set man who makes a precarious living showing films to children in the towns and refugee camps of the West Bank.
After setting bail at $1 million, Judge Hubert ordered a glum-looking Mr. Perez-Olivo, handcuffed and clad in gray trousers and a navy blazer, to surrender his passport.
Certainly, the modern-day sex addict cuts a curiously glum, ascetic figure when set beside the flamboyant sybarites brought to life by Peter O'Toole in What's New Pussycat?, or Warren Beatty in Shampoo, who curled around women like the hairstyles he dreamed up for them.
It can transform your mood from glum to cheerful in a single sip, transferring the cares from your shoulders to the setting sun as it seeps into the horizon.
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.
A glance at the artwork for his third How to Dress Well album, which sees his face set in a glum, faraway expression, reveals as much.
Its rhythms are set to the glum soundtrack of a lone electric guitar and a single snare.
Low point: The Holy Bible tracks, which, though still great, feel a little too glum for the setting.
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