Sentence examples for surrounding gloom from inspiring English sources

And even those who stick around may be infected by the surrounding gloom.

Outerlands exists to refute the surrounding gloom, or at least to offset it with fine food.

Both Mortensen and Smit-McPhee act with their eyes, which sparkle in the surrounding gloom.

Candlelight is acceptable in a light room, but in a dark setting, it provides uneven, raw light, made harsh by its sharp contrast with the surrounding gloom.

It is "horrible", though Dickens has taken measures against it being merely frightening by telling us that, in the surrounding gloom, it has "a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar".

"Who opposes street lighting," he demanded, "if not those ruffians who profit from the darkness of the night?" And then, in a barbed reference to the intellectual monopolists whose feeble glow depended on surrounding gloom and the ignorance of others: "A firefly only glows at night".

As well as a surrounding Victorian gloom, before anything else, the sense and ambience within the game, misty moors and minimalist piano backgrounds, leave us with the perfect mystery setting - murders don't happen on cloudless days.

"These headline data do nothing to pierce the gloom surrounding the public finances.

"Maybe this can divert investor attention away from the doom and gloom surrounding Xerox," he said.

The figure, the same as the initial estimate made Feb. 14, confirmed the gloom surrounding the region's economic prospects.

THE air of gloom surrounding much of European business made Ryanair's results, announced on June 25th, particularly impressive.