glumness

• “Her own nickering complaints of Norah's "glumness" sank into dumb anxiety.”

  Life at High Tide

• “Vice President Biden did his best to bring some visual levity to the glumness to his left.”

  The Washington Post: Obama's SOTU, Ryan's response, Bachmann's banality

• “Just about everything is now getting viewed through a lens of glumness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: It's Not the End of the World as We Know It

• “A glumness prevailed in the wake of the News of the World allegations of criminal malpractice by members of the Pakistan team.”

  The Guardian: Pakistan betting scandal: When two bowlers overstep their mark

• “Still, the glumness may be overdone, just as the optimism of the Goldilocks Economy was overdone.”

  Newsweek: The Power of Positive Thinking

• “The seven distinguished gentlemen seated inside a conference room in Washington on Thursday, January 26, 1922, listened to Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover drone on with what must have been mixed feelings of glumness and resentment.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “So, yes, all that glumness, and it was a truly grand Samhain, regardless.”

  "Here in November, in this house of leaves..."

• “Ann's journey from Paris to Italy is, in effect, a movement from glumness to warmth.”

  Karin Badt: Paris is No Paradise: Benoit Jacquot's "Villa Amalia" with Isabelle Huppert

• “I know that it sounds trite, but the best antidote to rejection-induced glumness is to get right back on the proverbial horse.”

  Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to format a book manuscript properly, part III: yes, the details matter. Really, really matter.

• “And most importantly: I snapped out of the glumness.”

  Thankful Friday: It’s been a week « Me, Myself and Other Things

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