gloomily

As advertised, the prime minister picked up where Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, left off yesterday - not merely warning gloomily of the tough decisions to come but trying to project more optimism about the dividends which will come from making the tough choices.

When the treaty was finally approved in 1919, Lloyd George gloomily predicted, “We shall have to fight another war all over again in twenty-five years.”

“We’ve got to get this back under control,” Nardelli intoned gloomily, after videos of smash-and-grab teams in retail stores had spooled behind him.

More gloomily, the holiday was observed against a backdrop of continued fighting.

"I think this war will not be resolved in the battlefield. It will end with a political deal," he said gloomily.