Commonalities emerge: inspiration, whimsy, a certain gloom.
And ours is one of the most indebted, facing a future of almost certain gloom.
He notes that "a certain tender gloom overspreads the whole" of Cymbeline.
Players of a certain type.
A certain amount of gloom has reached the most prestigious levels of American science.
Beset by memories of poor childhood co-ordination and playground ignominy, I approached this year's latest fitness craze with a certain sense of gloom.
I don't see how you can avoid a certain amount of gloom given the week we've just had — and its implications for the future.
One can overplay floral symbolism, of course, but it seems worth remarking that, while the clothes on the spring 2003 runways are bright silvers, pinks and grass greens, the flowers being sent by some designers seem to betray a certain level of gloom.
But there is also a certain aura of gloom that has hung over the group – in part due to some early deaths, two by suicide, and also because of how they have been represented (remember glum Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours?).
And because I was then indeed doing something, I felt, amid the gloom, a certain hope.
