gloom

Amid the gloom, one local nonprofit group is working to celebrate iconic cartoons to support the animators of today — and remind people of the joy of animation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Looking across the city, only a few patches of light survive, scattered in the gloom.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

He's far from alone and is part of a rising cohort of "kidults" - consumers over the age of 12, who are trying to counter the "doom and gloom" of adult life, an expert said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside the industry: AI will be helpful for both the economy and society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Quicker and quicker danced the dust; the moonbeams seemed to quiver as they went by me into the mass of gloom beyond.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

Church adored Turner, the greatest theatrician of landscape who ever lived, with his cloud arches and burning transparencies, his glooms and veils of color.

From Time Magazine Archive

The range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales.

From Time Magazine Archive

Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same mood, Episcopal Layman William Stringfellow gloomed that "the most practical thing to do now is weep."

From Time Magazine Archive

"How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson.

From Time Magazine Archive

James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course.

From Time Magazine Archive

Icons gloomed from the porticoes or raised stiff fingers in the glinting chapels.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021

After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr