Lizzie Clachan's set is a multi-level cavern whose thick gloom is offset by pink lampshades.
Scott Bradley's set places a homey kitchen and parlor in defenseless prostration before a menacing horizon of mill smokestacks, whose hellish gloom is thickened by Michael Giannitti's lighting.
St . Patricks was situated on a beautiful headland above the Pacific in several faux-Gothic buildings whose Jansenist gloom belonged more to the great Irish seminary of Maynooth than to the antipodean subtropics.
The pickup arena at the local cinema, whose plush and gloom come straight out of Edward Hopper, leads to a semi-silent bar, where Frank drinks nervously, yet somehow at peace, beside a line of fellow-sufferers.
"It is not all doom and gloom," said Carlin, whose company prints cards through a deal with the baseball players union.
Such was Bergman's stark, uncompromising vision that he found himself a byword for existential gloom, a man whose films offered a pitiless vision of a Godless universe.
Pale and flabby, carrying his 230 pounds like a shifting liquid cargo, Larkin was kitted out with two hearing aids and thick specs that served as windows to a house whose interior was hidden in gloom".
Pale and flabby, carrying his 230lbs like a shifting liquid cargo, Larkin was kitted out with two hearing aids and thick specs that served as windows for a house whose interior was hidden in gloom".
Cloaked in acrid yellow hues, it might have been dreamed up in committee by David Cronenberg, Luis Buñuel and the Polish master of freaky psychosexual gloom Andrzej Zulawski, whose surpassingly weird Possession (1981) this very much recalls.
