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

Oregon boarded a well-funded plane home, a glum plane, an annual Pac-12 plane of glumness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2021

Kramer is an answer to all that glumness, as far as the board is concerned, a very Hollywood figure, a showman and salesman and story teller.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 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

There is perhaps no more general weakness in the average American family than glumness!

From The Business of Being a Woman by Tarbell, Ida M.