gloominess

How To Use gloominess In A Sentence

• Plagued by gloominess and self-hatred, Hamlet often contemplates suicide and berates himself for delaying his vengeance.
• He would laugh her out of her gloominess.
• But everyone agrees that stormy weather adds to the gloominess of the series which was filmed primarily in Vancouver, B.C., not Seattle. The Killing's Burning Questions Answered
• The gloominess extends to Wall Street, which is suffering a sharp decline in fee-generating muni-bond deals. Muni Salesmen Fight Gloom
• In his work is nothing to recall the gloominess of the period; he has seen in it nothing but exploits and heroic adventure. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• These past days I had felt fine - despite the gloominess and pessimism - and hadn't felt sorry for anyone but myself.
• Some people, one imagines, may be naturally dauntless and buoyant of heart, but with him, good spirits always seemed, far more admirably, to be the product of a strict program of self-improvement in his youth he believed, like most truly modest men, in the absolute virtue of self-improvement which had wrought deep, essential changes in a nature inclined by birth to the darker view and gloominess that cropped up elsewhere in the family tree. Excerpt: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
• Hilltop pastures and crops of potatoes contrasted with the gloominess of ferny valleys, where the white bells of leek gave off whiffs of onion which dominated the perfume of bluebells. Country diary: Cornwall
• A "black spell" makes people forsake pleasurable things — "fireside joys" — for the "gloominess" of church service. The Peculiar Life of Sundays
• Aerobic exercise can ease the gloominess of depression and the tension associated with anxiety.