glumness

Example Sentences

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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

Before Denmark’s fans wound up sitting with a glumness they hadn’t expected, their side had begun to create some business near the Australian goal.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

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

She had not wanted him to play the lover in these surroundings, they would have been fatal to romance, but she had not bargained for his glumness.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.