glumness
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True, but the glumness of said world is central to Hoover’s zeitgeisty appeal — a point she underlines a few beats later, Kenna insisting that the radio only ever plays depressing songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Oregon boarded a well-funded plane home, a glum plane, an annual Pac-12 plane of glumness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
Rosario Dawson as a D.E.A. agent and Peter Sarsgaard as another U.S. attorney are uncharacteristically flat, and Stuhlbarg plays Richard Sackler on a note of unrelieved glumness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
But glumness isn’t obligatory, and in a world filled with new media that perpetually deluge us with ill-chosen words, the grace of well-executed verbal economy can be very welcome, indeed.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2021
But 'twas not the quiet of glumness that enveloped them, for they showed in every step an elasticity of spirits, as of muscles.
From Where the Souls of Men are Calling by John R. (John Rea) Neill
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