Sentence examples for instead of gloomy from inspiring English sources

In American Negro Slavery (1918), Phillips refers to slaves as "negroes, who for the most part were by racial quality submissive rather than defiant, light-hearted instead of gloomy, amiable and ingratiating instead of sullen, and whose very defects invited paternalism rather than repression".

So, instead of getting gloomy and resigning yourself to 2012's habits, get realistic.

Willem wrote to me just after the November attacks: "Parisians are fantastic: instead of being gloomy, they make music, filling the cafe terraces, partying, to show they are undefeatable".

Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

If America's storytelling has so much of its roots in religion and lone frontiersmen, our films' cultural wellspring is instead the gloomy premonitions of HG Wells's Things To Come, A Clockwork Orange, JG Ballard and, of course, 1984.

At the same time, others are praising it for humanising the refugees as people who have distinct looks instead of the almost generic gloomy-looking battered images of fleeing people.

Instead, the gloomy anniversary coincided with the appearance of Secretary of State John Kerry before Congress last week, in which he defended the controversial agreement.

Instead, it is narrated by the mother of a young child as news footage of gloomy economic reports before Trump took office rolls on screen. .

There is no lack of gloomy predictions.

"I can be sort of gloomy," he continued.

That was a really sort of gloomy year.