gloom

After 18 months of interactions with European business leaders and participation in the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Blom concluded that excessive gloom was itself placing Europe’s economic future at risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Paris Women's Fashion Week opens Monday with a debut show from South African brand MaXhosa Africa and a fresh collection from new-ish Canadian trendsetters Matieres Fecales, look to lift the gloom surrounding the sector.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

But let’s not be all gloom and doom.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

The echoing emptiness of that old house left a gloom on me, like a layer of dust.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

He glooms that it costs him plenty to be cheap, since he feels he has to tip extra because of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In their concern, the people hoped for the best, prepared for the worst, gloomed at the sinkings and took courage from their heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hotelmen, chambers of commerce, merchants and convention bureaus in 38 U.S. cities gloomed that the half-billion-dollar annual convention "industry" is all washed up until the war is won.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger—a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"—might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder."

From Time Magazine Archive

The hall was gloomed with the dot of yellow light from an oil lamp turned down so low that it jerked expiringly.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021

More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr