How To Use Gloominess In A Sentence
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Plagued by gloominess and self-hatred, Hamlet often contemplates suicide and berates himself for delaying his vengeance.
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He would laugh her out of her gloominess.
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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
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The gloominess extends to Wall Street, which is suffering a sharp decline in fee-generating muni-bond deals.
Muni Salesmen Fight Gloom
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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
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These past days I had felt fine - despite the gloominess and pessimism - and hadn't felt sorry for anyone but myself.
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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
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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
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A "black spell" makes people forsake pleasurable things — "fireside joys" — for the "gloominess" of church service.
The Peculiar Life of Sundays
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Aerobic exercise can ease the gloominess of depression and the tension associated with anxiety.
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It's easy to make a movie that looks dark without having any darkness to it, but this is a film with a core gloominess and sadness and danger that feels real.
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Shopping "just takes people's minds off the gloominess.
Consumer Confidence Tumbles
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BofA fell 4.2% ahead of its earnings results on Friday, amid general gloominess around the country's largest banks.
Bank Results Push Down Stocks
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His stories enthralled her with their ‘mixture of speculativeness, fantasy and gloominess.’
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The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would.
Sir Charles Grandison
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The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristos sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world.
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Fortunately, friends always bringing me the rain that washes the machine, which perfectly operate loneliness and generate fulfilling, washing away the gloominess of continuous working.
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Oppressed by his gloominess, Foma had come down on the deck from his cabin, and, for some time, had been standing in the shadow of some wares covered with tarpaulin, and listened to the admonitive and gentle voice of the preacher.
The Man Who Was Afraid
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Its dark red color; its gloominess, which is partly due to its architectural severity; its four mighty towers -- all combine to cause a feeling of fear, especially on moonlight nights, when the shadows of the towers fall on the water in the moat, which still surrounds the castle as in days of old.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
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U.S. stocks jumped Wednesday as investors bounced back from the previous day's gloominess, bidding up stocks in a broad-based rally that lifted all sectors.
U.S. Stocks Rally
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By this means, when the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes, into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, and disperse that gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate seasons.
Essays and Tales
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It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic.
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He delivers emotions other than dull gloominess and unfocused anger, and he does it in style.
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All the dark gloominess needs a little bit of a break up in my opinion.
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The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristocrats sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world.
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For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess.
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The D minor Quartet is by far the most tragic of the six, with a piercing sadness that sometimes borders on gloominess.
