Indeed, he uses his reportorial talent for description to conjure the glum, shopworn world they inhabit: he notices the linoleum curling at its seams, the fake antique furniture "broken out in pediments and lathework grenades and ornamental buboes," the old sewing machine "whose plastic had gone yellow".
Mr. Sinise, looking stricken and indignant even before Hathaway accuses Olham of being an evil suicide robot bomber, seems as cold and glum as the world around him.
Things looked glum in the rich world and decidedly difficult in the poor world.
That's a lot more than can be said for Austin Wiggin (Peter Friedman), the tyrannical father determined to exorcise his own demons by making stars of his kids in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World," a glum "Gypsy" for the hippie era that opened on Tuesday night at Playwrights Horizons in a co-production with New York Theater Workshop.
Tom Cruise has been the actor key to these forays into darkness, very good in the excellent Minority Report (2002) and very unappealing in the monumentally glum War of the Worlds (2005).
Businesspeople around the world are less glum than they were three months ago, according to a quarterly Economist/FT survey of over 1,500 executives, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
With things looking glum and gloomy on the world stage (assassinations, international statehood drama, typhoons, etc), Michelle Obama brightened things up with her neon ensemble on Monday.
The next time you're thinking the world is all glum and down, have a think about those flowers on the railing and how there's some people out there trying to brighten up the place for all us gloom-monkeys!
What was supposed to be a valedictory foreign tour for Barack Obama became a glum mission to soothe a panicking world, a plea to keep calm and carry on.
And while news from North America was rather glum, elsewhere things were looking up for the world's wealthy.
