Sentence examples for state of gloom from inspiring English sources

DESPITE my efforts to find signs of cheer, the markets are in a state of gloom.

A couple of hundred pages of that, even when relieved with zingy lists (Montgomery Ward's 1895 catalogue, posting to the prairie homestead deodorised goat robes and Madame Schack's dress reform hose supporter), left me in a state of gloom, worsened by Linda Grant's recent crawl along Oxford Street with her senile mother in search of a wedding-guest outfit.

Many of us live in a constant state of gloom or anxiety because of our increased knowledge of the world's pain.

Certainly it will not help reverse the prevailing state of gloom by Costa Ricans who have benefited little from the country's political diversification after decades of bipartisanism.

Intended to illuminate, it left many of us in a state of baffled gloom.

That state of lifeless gloom that Coleridge and so many other poets have written of has been part of my life, and my composing, for years.

Here is a show that shows no fear of killing off lead characters – without warning – leaving audiences in a state of bewildered gloom.

Baffled by the course of events, he spent his last years in a state of deep gloom.

It's been seven years since Saunders's last collection, "In Persuasion Nation," and in the interim America has settled into a state of uncertain financial gloom that seeps into these stories like smoke beneath a door.

The man is filled with irredeemable gloom about the state of the world.

Many of us are filled with irredeemable gloom about the state of the world, but not like Vollmann.