The selling agent admits she hasn't even set foot in the dark, dank basement, and the rest of the accommodation is almost as gloomy. |
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It was a dank, clammy night, made gloomy by the intermittent drizzle that had become steadier as the light of day faded with the sunset. |
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I was somewhat gloomy and depressed those days, but I felt refreshed by the surrounding trees and prayerful atmosphere. |
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Others were less gloomy, reading a cheering message into the fact that cricket was played at all. |
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The cavern funnelled down to a gloomy interior with a floor at 16m and seemed ideal for the purpose. |
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The gloomy gray clouds passed over the sun and a enormous shadow stretched across the frosty grass. |
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If you want to really know London, don't stop at the Tower of London with its gloomy turrets and Crown Jewels. |
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Adding to this gloomy scenario is the fact that reservoirs in northeastern Colorado have been drawn down substantially. |
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This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling. |
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The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans. |
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Lucia looked outside and saw grey smoldered clouds glooming over her house, the redness of dawn shined behind its gloomy mask. |
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The gloomy prospect of unemployment and poverty, of insecurity and war is frightening us. |
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As a painter he is best known for dramatic and sinister architectural views, with figures dwarfed by their gloomy surroundings. |
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The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour. |
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Last weekend's wet, wild and woeful trip to gloomy south Wales did turn out to have a silver lining for at least one Borders player. |
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Unexpectedly, a cover of sadness veiled her eyes and her voice took a gloomy turn. |
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A pluviophile is a lover of rain who never feels gloomy when it rains but finds joy and happiness! |
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I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought, just at the close of day the gentle gales retired. |
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The weather will be changeably cloudy, occasionally gloomy and mainly rainless in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula. |
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My introspection loses a lot of its working energy and becomes sluggish, gloomy, self-nagging and self-doubting. |
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The exhibition included predictable scenes of patients cowering pitifully in gloomy, overcrowded asylums. |
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The effect is somewhat flat and inexpressive, however, with attempts to render Tokyo in a gloomy, neo-realist style only partly successful. |
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Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday, as nervy investors caught sight of more gloomy economic data on the US horizon. |
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It was dark and gloomy and he could not see very well past the torrent of cascading water. |
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While most experts consider the problem severe, others say the gloomy forecasts are based on overly conservative projections of economic growth. |
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She thought of Mae to grant her some more confidence, as she approached the last door in the dark and gloomy corridor. |
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The cramped room was dark and gloomy, a faint stream of gentle light streaming through the grimy window. |
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So I hopped out, went out on the veranda and said hello and smiled at everybody, and they were all very sombre and gloomy. |
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There were long, wet days when our house seemed so gloomy that I once burst into tears just driving up to it. |
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It was another gloomy Monday for golf but as we arrived at the course the rain stopped and a very pleasant Stableford competition was held. |
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It clouded over while I showered and then flipped back and forth between sunny and gloomy. |
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State racing executives, however, continued to paint a gloomy picture of the industry's near-term future. |
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At the NCB event RBS stressed that it did not accept the gloomy prognosis for the Irish economy that is prevalent in the British media. |
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So shall we project our own cramped and gloomy worldview on to those who are most sensitive to counsels of despair? |
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Markets remained skittish and nervous, always ready to believe the latest scare story or gloomy prognosis. |
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Data collected from twenty-seven countries in the region project a gloomy prognosis. |
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The gloomy prognosis makes some sense because office rents and vacancies are traditionally trailing indicators of the broader economy. |
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Instead, privatizers like to play a shell game where they use gloomy assumptions for Social Security and rosy assumptions for privatization. |
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On a wet and gloomy afternoon, 21 people gathered in the council chamber of the town hall, looking rather apprehensive and dressed in their best. |
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Swashbuckling forward play which illuminated the gloomy wasteland of the National League has been rationed to tantalising glimpses. |
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Most people ended up in Hades, a dark, gloomy place with howling dogs, screaming monsters and the souls of the dead. |
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What, from the outside, seem like gloomy lattice windows prove within to be vivid mosaics of coloured glass. |
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Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals. |
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It painted a rather gloomy view of the employment prospects of current final-year students. |
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Elsewhere, analysts saw little respite for battered tech and telecoms shares, which have struggled amid the gloomy corporate earnings picture. |
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It was gloomy, and the skulking figures of the town's down-and-outs gave the whole area a certain not-quite-alive not-quite-dead feel. |
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The museum's painting is the sort of gloomy, tenebrist work for which he is usually most admired. |
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It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it. |
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Then the group hopped out of the hot air balloon basket and looked upwards towards the dark, gloomy sky. |
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At the moment the area is gloomy and uninspiring, with grey concrete walls and floor. |
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South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts. |
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But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair. |
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A positive opening in the US helped keep the Footsie ticking over while traders digested a gloomy third-quarter report from Colt Telecom. |
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His was a gloomy and melancholy disposition and he never found relief outside his work. |
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If you can, use a tripod or other camera support to achieve sharpness, pack filters for a gloomy day and experiment. |
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I believe it is still up there because otherwise it would be pitch dark instead of just gloomy. |
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It does you good to realise that there is always somebody more gloomy than you are. |
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His dark, high-cheeked handsomeness impressed Ian Dalrymple, who cast him in his film of George Moore's gloomy Victorian novel, Esther Waters. |
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First of all, his lank, angular appearance combined with his monotone voice and gloomy disposition aren't very soothing and reassuring. |
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The dominant colours in his works are blues, greys, pale greens and gloomy ambers. |
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In the demographic campaign, the cities were described in the most gloomy terms. |
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The world would be a very gloomy and depressing place if there was no hope. |
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The gloomy outlook on bonuses comes as investment banks worldwide are retrenching in the face of dwindling business volumes. |
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This might not seem like a ringing endorsement of war, but it contrasted with his gloomy assessments in the previous year. |
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The dark and gloomy colours of the works contrast with the whiteness of the hall's interior. |
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As a gloomy morning ramped up to a bluebird afternoon, the Snowboard Halfpipe Championships got under way with 33 competitors. |
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It had dawned overcast and gloomy, with just a glimmer of light to the south. |
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I have probably been sounding a bit gloomy about the prevailing moral climate recently but I remain undaunted. |
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Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict. |
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This morning, there has been no rain, but the sky still looks dark and gloomy. |
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The gloomy picture emerged as heavy rain lashed the UK and isolated areas in parts of the country were warned to expect flooding. |
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If by now you imagine yourself spending your day in dark, gloomy caves, staring at bones, you can forget about it. |
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It cast a gloomy atmosphere around the station, which did not enhance her mood. |
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The building was a monument to gloomy Edwardian luxury, with a hallway of marble and panelled wood. |
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Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours. |
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The clouds had dispersed, the sky was once more clear and bright with stars, and the awakening birds twittered softly in the gloomy trees. |
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The family checks into a gloomy hotel outside the city, with Harry and Dudley sharing a musty room. |
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Often, singer-songwriters have to find a balance between gloomy introspection and poppy melodies. |
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He gave the Cabinet a deeply gloomy prognosis about the effects of prolonged conflict on an already stuttering world economy. |
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He had shot his bolt by the seventies, retreating into gloomy introspection. |
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Little Nell Trent lives in the gloomy atmosphere of the old curiosity shop kept by her grandfather, whom she tends with devotion. |
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The inside of the cabin was rather gloomy and had a musty, old mouldy smell about it. |
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Your article, unfoundedly, paints a very gloomy picture of what is, in fact, a great opportunity for Canadian investment. |
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Like other hardware and chip makers, the company said it saw no turnaround in its fortunes and gave a gloomy forecast of falling computer sales. |
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Anyway, the charm was meant to bring true happiness and I'm sure a gloomy cold person like Ian would need some of that. |
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A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work. |
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The Dutch of the 19th century were portrayed as gloomy and sullen preachers and educators. |
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But prepare for the inevitable crash of emotions as the money is spent and the glow fades and you end up gloomy and sullen. |
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Even when the mood becomes threatening, as on the gloomy The Moon Versus The Sea or Mytikas, Haugh balances it with airy bells and chimes. |
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The moment Qambar's hard, sly face appeared on the screen, the gloomy living room lit up with hoots, howls, clapping and whistling. |
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Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier. |
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Instead, he delivers a laudably subdued performance as an aging Gen X-er whose gloomy angst is sublimated into sketches and journal entries. |
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James, one of the now gloomy faces at the dining room table, had brought me a sketch of St. Vincent de Paul. |
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While wall paintings and perhaps stained glass introduced colour to otherwise gloomy, ill-lit interiors, furnishings were sparse. |
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A rainbow formed an arch above the square, adding a splash of color to the gloomy atmosphere pervading the West Bank town. |
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His films have become increasingly gloomy and pessimistic, even morbidly so. |
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The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it. |
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The atmosphere during those closing moments was gloomy, depressing and discouraging. |
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Everett had a very deep bass voice that sounded perpetually gloomy and mournful when a person wasn't used to him. |
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But as the years passed, they became more gloomy and dejected, and I could see why during my visits. |
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The forecourt was gloomy, underlit and overlooked by a dark brick building of indeterminate purpose. |
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I'm not sure why it is that liberals have become gloomy, scolding, peevish and puritanical, but so they have. |
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It wasn't only the threat of war and the worsening economic outlook that contributed to the gloomy atmosphere. |
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Myri slowly pushed the right-hand door open, allowing a slither of light to pierce the gloomy room. |
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With companies planning to shed jobs it adds up to the prospect of a gloomy winter. |
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For this show, Marc continues the dark, gloomy feel with black, navy and gray. |
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Perhaps even the gloomy cloud hanging over the manufacturing industry has a silver lining. |
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Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common. |
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The number of rebels was far in excess of even the most gloomy government forecast. |
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He delivers a laudably subdued performance as an aging Gen Xer whose gloomy angst is sublimated into sketches and journal entries. |
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Outside, the rain had stopped, and the clouds were beginning to break up, though inside the barn it remained gloomy. |
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For instance when its dark and gloomy you miss the sunshine so it depresses you. |
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Or you might want to follow the route, looking for phantoms on a suitably dark and gloomy night. |
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Instead, right-to-die advocates project their own gloomy estimation of the worth of human life on to these poor souls. |
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His gloomy presence haunted her mind once more and she shut her eyes, trying to shut the memories of him away. |
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Small villages, hayricks, gloomy barns, steaming dung-heaps and frost blasted trees poked from the snow in black detail. |
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The sky, a gloomy purple, was overlapped by stratus sheets of blue-black clouds. |
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The streets were damp and gloomy, rain streaming beneath sodium street lamps like showers of orangeade. |
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The gloomy gothic mood of the background sounds serves the metallic drums and dark vocals, contributing to make this song a rather unsettling moment. |
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Gradually he became an outcast, and on a dark gloomy day, he took a vow. |
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They then scurried into the shadows provided in a dark and gloomy alley. |
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There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy. |
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He never noticed it before, but the door was dark and gloomy. |
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The limo windows were tinted, making it appear dark and gloomy outside. |
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The gloomy forecast will come as a blow to the struggling industry, which was only just beginning to recover from the effects of the foot and mouth crisis earlier this year. |
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The gloomy atmosphere of the church radiated around the pedestal. |
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The album maintains a gloomy atmosphere, but the feeling modulates. |
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When I turned on the radio it was to be told that, contrary to yesterday's gloomy forecast, the weather is to become mild again for the days running up to Christmas. |
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The concrete was moist and cold, and the atmosphere was cold and gloomy. |
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All of a sudden, the gloomy atmosphere of the time stop disappeared. |
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Such scepticism has been widely voiced in the public prints, and in our mailbag too, which expresses opinions ranging from the guardedly optimistic to the gloomy. |
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That gloomy thought ought to concentrate minds in western capitals. |
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This gloomy attitude is reflected in surveys and indices of business confidence. |
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There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it. |
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Fans of gloomy, bloodthirsty action movies will probably be entertained. |
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A pained Yanukovych made his last and most gloomy video address to the Ukrainian people. |
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And many parents prefer not to bring small children to the gloomy and often unsanitary hotels near the colonies. |
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If candy machine builders get too gloomy, they may stop building machines. |
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And of course there is the gene, that hard-wired Calvinist gateway to gloomy fate. |
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Lately Millie's been carsick quite a bit and my brainstorming on what I should pack in order to clean up any accidents while travelling has made me feel rather gloomy. |
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Another sign of Jakarta's gloomy investment atmosphere is the number of investors who have canceled plans to open operations in the bonded zone in Marunda. |
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My passing further disgruntled gloomy herons slouching along the bank, and startled grebes and coots fussing around in ever contracting pools of water. |
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As the day progresses, the weather starts to take on a gloomy appearance, with dark, gray clouds moving in, covering up the sky and diffusing the sunlight. |
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One can only hope that such a gloomy view is unduly pessimistic. |
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The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression. |
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The study paints a gloomy picture of the British attitude to fathering. |
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The weather is gray and gloomy throughout much of the country. |
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I had an image of a grim, gloomy hospital with stern faced staff. |
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Plus I woke up at 5am again, and since sleep skittered evasively through the window and out into the gloomy morning, I surrendered to the inevitable, and sprang out of bed. |
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That is meant to be a funny concept because we think of existentialists as gloomy, Gitanes-smoking French guys who sip coffee all day on the Left Bank. |
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While I enjoyed Breach, I found the melancholy style of the Wallflowers to be a bit of a downer and even the occasional upbeat rhythm isn't enough to make it any less gloomy. |
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It was going to fight the bill all the way to its doomy, gloomy grave. |
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The gloomy sky had broken up, revealing patches of sky blue. |
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Into this gloomy atmosphere came a national drive by preservationists and conservationists to create national parks and forests in the eastern United States. |
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In early 1973 there were signs that this gloomy period was near its end. |
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Finally he pointed out that history provides a gloomy prognosis. |
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This isn't the first time Medicare has been given a gloomy prognosis. |
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The good news is that while a gloomy prognosis for European manufacturing is unfolding, we are by no means in the initial stages of a stagflationary impulse. |
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Given such gloomy prognoses, it's surprising how defiant and upbeat the small army of programmers working to bring alternative fare to their audiences seem to be. |
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This rather gloomy prognosis has not been entirely repudiated by critics. |
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The gloomy postmortem has begun, but team manager Roy Hodgson is not resigning. |
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From its timpani-punctuated gloomy, soft rise to the bell-ringing, massive finale it's a work that can be interpreted any which way it pleases you. |
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She said apparently trying to brighten the gloomy air about the room. |
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously. |
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Ronstadt was one of several Arizonans who blanched at the gloomy face the governor had drawn on the state. |
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The Mayo defeat shook hurling to the core in the county and coming on the back of a walloping by Kerry, it spelled a very gloomy future for the code. |
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Is all of this spring's rainy, gloomy weather getting you down? |
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Only this Monday did the vibes from Dublin begin turning gloomy, the day on which I wrote my column in this paper throwing up the dread possibility of a great double-cross. |
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The problem is the story, which seems relentlessly gloomy and downbeat, lacking moments of breakdown and reconciliation that were so crucial to previous successes. |
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With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. |
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His book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for peace. |
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The Bach Flower Remedy mustard helps children who get gloomy for no reason. |
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He made landfall at the gloomy bay of San Julian, in what is now Argentina. |
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But, Crozier warned, the gloomy postelection economic outlook could seriously dent the advertising market in the second half of the year. |
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From the street, the house seems to be a gloomy cube of slatey concrete and glass. |
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God Is Dead The album's longest track, at almost nine minutes, boasts a similar reverse riff to the opener but is a more doomy, gloomy affair. |
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He looked at the same gloomy scenario but reframed it to see possibilities and opportunities. |
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The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping. |
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That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses. |
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He stated it was a gloomy journey amongst uninhabited islands, but he had visited one which was the retreat of holy men. |
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I too was tempted to ditch my husband and the gloomy climes of England for a bronzed Greek man on the charming island of Mykonos. |
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Most apartment buildings are old, gloomy crapholes well-stocked with New England's most gregarious cockroaches. |
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This includes the graveyard poets, from the 1740s and later, whose works are characterised by gloomy meditations on mortality. |
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Grim and gloomy Protestantism has never been exactly a bundle of laughs but lately humour in the church, particularly the evangelical wing, seems to be undergoing a revival. |
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To the right rose a semicircle of old planes and a copper beech whose branches plunged to the ground and made a broad bell-tent that was cool and gloomy even at midday. |
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He said the results were gloomy and despairing and he destroyed them. |
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By the 18th century, Baroque art was falling out of fashion as many deemed it too melodramatic and also gloomy, and it developed into the Rococo, which emerged in France. |
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In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death. |
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Ross watched her deteriorate in gloomy and unreproving silence. |
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In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart. |
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But for the garden-variety worrywart, the picture is far less gloomy. |
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Gilding a grand and gloomy piano line with soulful horn and handclap motifs, Aussie band The Panics' UK debut has considerable presence and a Kings Of Leon endorsement. |
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And I am always amused to read the gloomy dot bomb stories in the press. |
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The Welsh are Britain's biggest grinners, with 63 percent sporting a smile most of the time, but only 40 percent of those in the gloomy southwest say they smile regularly. |
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The Glasswing or Clearwing population is thriving at Stratford Butterfly Farm thanks to this year's dull and gloomy conditions which have suited them perfectly. |
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