The postcard itself was a moody affair, a dark sepia scene of a cityscape that was gloom itself. |
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The forecasters are split between light rain and dryish gloom for tomorrow afternoon but come together again on the longer-term prospects. |
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From the dim blue polar gloom you proceed to the crepuscular world of stone curlews and owls. |
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Some experts believe the money markets are currently overdoing the gloom about possible rate rises. |
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The banked tiers of seats in front were in a deep gloom that contrasted sharply with the lurid light flooding the tables. |
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This time last year we had doom and gloom, and December was the worst month of the year for growth. |
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For many, his indispensable contribution is to have lightened the gloom and moral bankruptcy of those years. |
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I admire your blithe spirit in the face of overwhelming reality, and your ballsy indifference to the same gloom that frequently swamps me. |
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Bathed in yellow light hovering over the gloom of the garden she looked in at a woman repeatedly working a tea towel around the inside of a mug. |
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Entering through the low door, they saw opposite them above a fireplace two swords sheathed in their scabbards, glittering in the gloom. |
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Downstairs, in the gloom, you can just make out the figures of two large men. |
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I didn't apply myself, preferring to spend most of high school in a gloom, so I got only average results except in English. |
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Lovingly tended by the crossing keeper, a dozen pink roses are in full bloom, bringing a welcome splash of colour to the autumnal gloom. |
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The change in pace is subtle and almost negligible, and yet its mellow lure propels the song beyond the gloom. |
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The bottom was barely visible in the gloom and there was a reasonable tide running. |
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Before you can draw breath the media are reporting doom and gloom in bucketloads. |
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However, in spite of the gloom, government sources yesterday suggested that perhaps all is not lost. |
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In the predawn gloom, an armada of longboards sat in the sand of Windansea beach, bristling like war ships with poles, tackle, and gear. |
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Investor gloom may well overshadow improving economic fundamentals through the summer. |
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His expression lightened for a millisecond before it dropped back into the deepening gloom. |
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Despite the gloom that's overshadowed the sector for a while, he believes that there are reasons to be hopeful. |
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At the very onset, you can feel the warmth, cheerfulness, or gloom of a site. |
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The banks are green again after months of gloom and the margins are alive with life. |
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A pall of gloom hangs over the usually bustling market town as sealed container wagons and Army trucks rumble through the streets. |
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A susurrous gloom cloaks these stories as if the country's collective malaise traveled on the wind. |
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His eyes adjusted to the now familiar gloom of the Cimmerian's headquarters. |
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A bishop and his acolyte attend her, while courtiers in black robes emerge from the gloom on either side of the bed. |
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The cloud of gloom hanging over the area is so dense, it's hard to see any sign of a silver lining. |
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Amid all the gloom and doom in the advertising industry giant adverts seem to be bucking the trend. |
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What we hear from the National Party is doom, gloom, whinge, whine, grizzle, and groan. |
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It is not just the physical effect of rain that affects us all, it is the gloom that goes with it. |
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The launch window stays open and no one wants to go given the previous results and the pervasive gloom. |
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Later though, in the gathering gloom, the city's bars and restaurants come to life. |
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Small groups of working girls are gathered along the street, paced evenly, plying their trade in the gloom of the night. |
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My eyes having adjusted to the gloom, I noticed a lambent, reddish glow emanating from one direction. |
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She glanced round the shadowy room, noting the matching curtains and bed cover that attempted to relieve the gloom. |
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Bear markets have more to do with uncertainty than with decisive gloom, and yo-yoing shares are the clearest possible evidence of that. |
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Since then there has been a Piano Concerto in C minor, theme music for any situation requiring a sufficiently heady mixture of passion and gloom. |
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Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck. |
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Are all the doom and gloom predictions just a fabrication of the media or has the world indeed changed? |
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A pretty astounding year for debut albums too, despite the doom and gloom and depression that allegedly is swamping the music industry. |
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We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery. |
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Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression. |
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She almost transformed the audience from deep gloom into spontaneous applause. |
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One giant stride later, I was finning slowly towards the hull, watching as it disappeared into the sapphire gloom of 30m of water. |
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It was a dim, twilit gloom filled the enormous tunnels, muffling all hints of life within them. |
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Now it was warmer in the cabin's single room, and Adam had lit a lamp to forestall the gathering gloom. |
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Though Magdalen is still alive, the novel's prophetic gloom seems to have been realized in the irremediable loss of her character. |
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Still, one can't help but wonder if the doom and gloom warnings have their roots in a mentality accustomed to government pork. |
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On the other hand, a young country cousin, Phoebe, arrives to lighten the gloom of the old house. |
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Back in the crepuscular gloom of my Tyneside flat, the result seemed satisfactory. |
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It took a few seconds for our eyes to adjust from the bright light of the olive groves to the darkly frescoed gloom of the interior. |
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I have found ways to minimize the damage and disruption that my periods of gloom and nameless grief can cause. |
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The songs on Mobilize are relatively unremarkable but Phillips' voice has the ability to evoke thoughts of darkness, gloom and ecstasy. |
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Not all elements of Tent City life are shrouded in gloom and darkness, however. |
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Hopefully, the drawbacks will be overcome before somebody else takes a painful tumble on the daunting steps in the inky gloom. |
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To be honest, I feel so sick about the whole thing that even the memory of the try I scored does nothing to relieve the gloom. |
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The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes. |
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People forgot the gloom of post-war hardships and were joyful, proud and triumphant. |
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Through the now deepening gloom he could see her steeped in shadow, looking on to the deep gloom of the back of his garden. |
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But its overwhelming gloom withdraws into a hazy shadow as the moon showers its silver hues. |
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Teased by the gloom, I peered through its sandwich of heaped rings, trinkets and protective glass. |
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Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies. |
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I stared upwards into the gloom and could make out the outline of a face, with two eyes staring straight at me. |
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After the twilight gloom of the entrance came the deepening blackness of the cave's belly. |
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He rode in a gloom full of sighing like voices and full of dropping like footsteps. |
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When day broke, the summer dawn could not penetrate the leaden gloom above the city. |
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The victory temporarily lifted the gloom surrounding the team's battle against relegation from the Premiership. |
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After the lengthy period of economic gloom in the tech sector, that's a good thing. |
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In his valedictory editorial in the latest issue of the Poetry Review, he could not contain his gloom any longer. |
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In the gloom across the vast expanse of sand the distant hills awaited the daylight. |
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It was born into a period of economic gloom as those who were around in the early 1980s will recall. |
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The morale-boosting victory lifted the gloom hanging over the club amid the uncertainty surrounding its future. |
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Technology stocks took a fresh battering after a spate of US profit warnings spread gloom across world financial markets. |
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A more novel sentiment is my lack of consuming gloom at the prospect of the Tories back in power. |
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Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug. |
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He made his way through the gloom to the bar, where a man he presumed to be the bartender was staring dully into the middle distance. |
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In the sepulchral gloom of the strip club two other dancers are substituted. |
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Our weather was bleak, and in the US the climate was no better, the gloom reflecting the mood of the nation. |
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Still, we mellow out round the fire, toasting marshmallows and muttering into the gloom. |
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Hope has morphed into widespread gloom as widespread economic suffering becomes the new normal in America. |
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Before signposting some alternative policy approaches, let me throw some cold water on the doom and gloom predictions as they stand. |
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Head lowered, she raised her arms, and the gloom descended to envelope us, as if she had pulled it down as a comforting blanket. |
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Only Dalton's mother resists the enveloping gloom by taking part in a factory occupation. |
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Other bonds have been caught up in the gloom in recent months, and this may create selective buying opportunities for the canny investor. |
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Given the mood of gloom that has spread across the markets perhaps it is best to begin with a spot of mirth. |
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As the hysteria died down, a deep gloom fell over America which was to last over two months. |
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And mine is the world of the rented room, where damp creeps in in the dismal gloom and music is the only thing I own. |
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Many economists are predicting doom and gloom in the times ahead but racing has never been stronger. |
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The doomsayers were having a field day, spreading their pessimistic philosophy of gloom and doom to every forum they could ooze their way into. |
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Nothing distracts from the swell and shimmer of the sleek blue surface that slinks enticingly through the gloom and dourness of the city. |
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She needed her time alone, away from the gloom and murk of a sickroom. |
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I hope they weren't spooked off from buying property a few years ago, what with all these doom and gloom losers pontificating about inflation, bubbles, and unicorns. |
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But even those few cafes at street level wallow in an atmosphere of brumal gloom so dense that, even at midday, you have to peer at the menu to make it out. |
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We had escaped gloom and privation and would wake up in a place where food and warmth were available down the street. |
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A large hawk was flying toward me in the gloom and I squeezed off a few shots even though it was too dark and he was too far away to get a worthwhile image. |
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The gloom lifted as quickly as it came this year, when prices for some prime properties soared by 40 per cent as the Hong Kong economy gathered steam. |
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In the claustrophobic gloom of Fez, a small basement club popular with students in downtown New York, Joan Rivers is standing on stage haranguing her audience. |
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Scotland's coach does not usually want for words, but even the perennial optimist found it difficult to see any highlights amongst the autumnal gloom of yesterday's encounter. |
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Even then the gloom was such that the scoreboard shone like Piccadilly Circus on a wet night while both batsmen and fielders needed radar to sight the ball. |
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He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below. |
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Indeed, the results of BusinessWeek's annual survey of the 500 biggest offshore funds show that, in spite of all the gloom and doom, it's possible to play the market and win. |
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As we hurtle through the rain and darkness, the music clamouring, the windscreen wipers going full bore, cyclists come at us out of the gloom like pale moths. |
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He could only think of the future, gloom and darkness without her. |
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Philip's gloom deepens when he finds a letter from Mr Plumb to his mother. |
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The dusk only discernible from the jungle gloom by the sound of evening-song from invisible birds and the sharp slant of the setting sun between branches. |
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Not the darkness of oblivion but the shroud of gloom on a sunless winter day, which made the room look as though as though the light had been switched off. |
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Through the distorted glass of the windows the flurries of snow continued to dance and swirl, the grey light turning the room to a place of gloom and shadows. |
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This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency. |
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The only feeling she could identify was one of gloom and depression. |
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City analysts feared the global economic gloom would affect consumers in the run-up to Christmas but they have instead witnessed a surge in spending. |
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So they continued, but a cloud of gloom hung over the company. |
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The hope is that this will offset the gathering gloom about prospects. |
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So the tabloid-style gloom and doom may simply be disinformation. |
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This is not only good news but encouraging revelations, especially made at the beginning of the year when projections are usually about gloom and doom. |
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Nobody is forecasting gloom and doom here, but we are facing challenging times that if not dealt with have serious implications for the entire world. |
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It's a miraculous way to yank yourself out of gloom and doom. |
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The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this. |
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While commentators have been casting gloom and doom on the prospects for their opponents, I think every party involved in this election will have some degree of satisfaction. |
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Sunday was still a day of tranquillity and gloom when the trains did not run, and shops and theatres were closed, as also were public houses in Wales and Scotland. |
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The cancellation of agricultural shows because of the impact of foot and mouth disease, is adding to the gloom and despondency of the tourism industry. |
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Despite its grand, stately appearance, this fine city struggles, shrouded in a shadow of gloom and misery, crushed under an iron fist of oppression. |
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It is not all gloom and doom if you fail to climb the greasy pole. |
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The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter. |
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Smears of crimson gleamed like the eyes of predatory animals lurking in the atramentous gloom as pair after pair of red crystals lit up within the ancient barracks. |
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Out of the glare of the day, into the bleachless gloom of night, borne at the breast of pale decay, blossomless buds of hope from sight slip to eternal calm and sweep out from the unknown deep. |
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They peered out into the gloom from battery Park and could not make out her form. |
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The current gloom is no more realistic than late 1990s euphoria and will fade with the turn of the business cycle. |
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In these days of corporate austerity, economic gloom and wafer-thin margins, it is brave to post substantially increased profits and claim there is still more to come. |
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I get the impression that some in the broadcast media are more interested in spreading gloom to garner ratings than quelling people's uneasiness, or giving solid facts. |
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The Forestry Commission car park on Clay Bank Top normally provides ace views of the Cleveland Plain, but there was nothing but an impenetrable gloom. |
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A few small oil lamps were hung from rafters in strategic spots, casting lonesome pools of illumination to steal the gloom from the darkest corners. |
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Adding to the gloom was weaker-than-expected jobs data from the United States on Friday, which cast doubt on the strength of the economic recovery. |
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She patted my leg, then stood and walked off into the gloom. |
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From the choir loft, we had a wonderful view as the Paschal fire spread out among the people, lighting from one candle to the next, dispersing the gloom of darkness. |
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In the gloom the flash of missiles impacting in the distance heartened them. |
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To add to the gloom, several high-profile Ebola cases have occurred in health-care workers treating patients with the disease. |
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It was like the chapter in the book in which the golden boy is set upon by gloom and wonders about the purpose of life. |
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In some parts, the sun's rays struggle to pierce the tree canopies, casting the whole world in a greenish gloom. |
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Usually we can make out no more than a lumpen shape in the gloom. |
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It is vital that we look to science to help us here, and not to the various scaremongers and often self-appointed bodies that tend to spread stories of doom and gloom. |
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A series of scuffles and bangs sounded from within the gloom and even Marlo winced once when something heavy fell, smashed and Atoshi squeaked pathetically. |
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His eyes were focussed somewhere off in the deepening gloom. |
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Hunched figures squatted against the walls in the greenish gloom, working silently, bent over filigree necklaces crafted from melted down meticais, the Mozambican currency. |
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As the weather deteriorated from brilliant sunshine at the start of play to miasmal gloom in the second half, so the away side's fortunes began to rally. |
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The doors were unbarred, opened and sunlight flooded into the gloom. |
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Despite the gloom of the grey mist around us, with our boats and their bodies bobbing about on a still, glassy sea, the experience could not have been more perfect. |
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There is a short-termism in these funding decisions that could be a harbinger for more gloom down the road. |
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I know that in some quarters I am regarded as a kind of wet blanket, a Henny Penny predicting doom and gloom. |
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Never has the country seen such an environment of gloom, pessimism, cynicism and negativism. |
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All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there. |
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These combined odours somewhat dispersed Dan's gloom when he came back in squeaky Sunday shoes and a bunglesome cut-away coat. |
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The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. |
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I don't think it's not all doom and gloom for them, but losing your captain is tough. |
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Yet jollity and gloom are still at war in our censorious age. |
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Her face aglimmer with self-important gloom, she bars his entry, while goodwife grunts and groans within. |
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She's a manically cheery person who thinks that because I live and breathe in the world of news, I've become laden with the gloom of it all. |
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There was the inevitable doom and gloom from some, while others were more upbeat. |
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He is rather drawn to figures in pain, to the primordial, and to gloom. |
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Once you start to let the doom and gloom in it has an eect on the condence. |
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After weeks of anticipatory gloom, liberals can exhale and smile. |
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While the economy may be going down the tube, those travelling to escape the doom and gloom are willing to spend EUR121 a night for a hotel room. |
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The ruins lie upon a promontory, bare and unmystified by the gloom of surrounding groves. |
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When the sun sinks below the skysill there is most often in England the gloom of mistiness. |
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I see many of the brethren and the sistren are in the same place I was the other night, when Tatyana commented on my gloom. |
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Lately, any discussion of the teleservices industry has been awash with gloom, doom and uncertainty. |
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The interior of the prison flashed white with suddenly-turned faces. The gloom scintillated, as it were, with rapidly-moving hands. |
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In the morning gloom, one company commander got lost and his junior officers became despondent. |
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Both of these things have helped prevent purchasing motivative from being too focused on price during a time of economic gloom. |
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He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around like a chicken with the pip. |
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The scene around them was currently plunged into gloom. Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows. |
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Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom. |
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It was a year of misery and mayhem, chockful of failing banks and crunching credit, with a side order of doom and gloom. |
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It wasn't all gloom for The Fugue's trainer, John Gosden, who staged a Haydock 1-2 with Pomology and Sultanina just before Belle D'Or's last ditch Sandown win. |
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He laughs, so unresentfully that the gloom is completely eclipsed. |
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Not that this worries David Cameron any more than it particularly bothered the New Labour apparatchiks, including the premier prophet of independence gloom, Alistair Darling. |
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Whilst the daylight lasted, he treated her cautionings with apparent indifference. The darkness of night is the time for fear. As the gloom of evening set in, he grew nervous. |
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Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat. |
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Losing 4-2 is never nice and it was all doom and gloom after it. |
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Smiles and cheerful countenances were changed for one general gloom. |
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From Nathan's Hotdogs and the Wonder Wheel to end-of-season gloom and recession, Coney sings the bright and dim electric song of Brooklyn's iconic peninsula. |
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Filled with these foretales of gloom, I climbed back up the cliff with Yates to the Nissen hut to join him and Stagg for examination of the incoming Friday charts. |
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The rods of encroaching night and the gloom of the cinema are cathexes which compensate, albeit with a loss of selfhood, for the void created by the absence of the father. |
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It wasn't all gloom for The Fugue's trainer John Gosden, who staged a Haydock 1-2 with Pomology and Sultanina just before Belle D'Or's last-ditch Sandown win. |
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Fans listen to Death Cab for Cutie for doom and gloom, not song and dance. |
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I don't do gloom, I'm not cool enough to be all angsty and pent up. |
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January is the wettest month of the year for the city and during this time a periodic event, similar to June Gloom, is observed created by marine layer. |
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