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

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

This time mine comes back negative and I take the mantle of glumness from Dinesh's shoulders.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2020

It struck him as rather comic; and High Jinks and Low Jinks tittered broadly, losing in the most astonishing way the one her severity and the other her glumness.

From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)