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
A narrative that, for better or worse, wrings more glumness than humor from Jeff’s travails.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Oregon boarded a well-funded plane home, a glum plane, an annual Pac-12 plane of glumness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 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
They were so hideous, these two, and so ghastly comic and fantastic in their unresponsive glumness, that the poor girl lost all hold upon herself and broke into a trembling shriek of laughter.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
