Sentence examples for oppressive gloom from inspiring English sources
There is also pleasing camerawork: painterly images of strained light and oppressive gloom.
It's a dark reading in every sense: Miller reproduces the oppressive gloom of gas-lit drawing rooms with a literalness that risks eye-strain.
Though Divergent is also a dystopic novel, it doesn't suffer from the oppressive gloom that blankets Orwell's masterpiece.
Douglass adds context to his narrative in order to remove the oppressive gloom raised over religion and those who claim to identify as religious.
It is at these low ebbs of life that we confront the separateness of each living creature; we are alone, suffocating from the oppressive gloom of close friends and relatives torn too soon from your life.
As the play opens, Beane sits alone in his poky, sparsely furnished abode, where an ever-lowering ceiling adds to an oppressive feeling of Beckettian gloom.
The gloom can become oppressive at times, but the shadowy mise-en-scène echoes the darkness through which the characters struggle to discern a way forward, or at least find a way to escape the past.
The ramp is designed for Brobdingnagian giants, not humans; the escalators whisk you through gloom; the blackwood everywhere is oppressive.
She was married, had a young child and spent her time with other mothers, all of whom aspired to such oppressive virtue that the fear of child-rearing errors carried a whiff of existential gloom.
But instead of consuming me with gloom and worry, I was able to peel my mind away from the oppressive hold those tasks had on me for a time, and to enjoy the moment with my girl.
