| If you're into ambient, chill-out, trip-hop, electro-dub or downbeat, this album is for you. |
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| His downbeat tone might be heartfelt, or it could simply be more mind games. |
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| For one significant reason, the jocular Thomson can afford not to be too downbeat about the Fifers' 8-1 mauling on their own patch last month. |
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| The evening ends with a downbeat number, an odd choice for an encore, but it winds things down nicely enough. |
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| Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel. |
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| The acoustic guitar's melody is pretty and downbeat and the percussion is interesting, almost dirge-like. |
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| The series had a robust energy but was just too sour and downbeat to really work as a sitcom. |
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| This song set the tone for the downbeat understatement that the event traditionally displays. |
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| The whole trend of British history since her accession has been comparatively downbeat. |
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| Too many cartoon characters have become cynical and downbeat and it's just refreshing to see something upbeat and good hearted. |
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| His writing on the last campaign trail was increasingly dejected but never downbeat. |
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| Success would be historic but defeat would mean his departure would be even more downbeat. |
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| Hornby was aghast but answered her questions in increasingly staccato and downbeat tones. |
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| Though the marketing campaign portrays It Runs in the Family as a big fat comedy, it's rather more low-key and downbeat. |
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| As the film progresses towards an inevitably downbeat conclusion, this becomes increasingly problematic. |
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| This is as dark and downbeat as they come, the occasional lighter moments of banter notwithstanding. |
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| There is a great deal of soul-searching, it seems, but not to the detriment of the listeners' enjoyment, for the music is far from downbeat. |
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| It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section. |
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| It seems some of the Scottish press didn't like the decidedly downbeat conclusion of the feature. |
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| The performance matched a downbeat start to the week for the Dow Jones in the US and reflected cheaper telecom, media and oil stocks in London. |
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| The Squid And The Whale may sound downbeat and depressing, but it is so true to life, it turns out funny and compassionate. |
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| Especially in the first half, they tend too much towards the downbeat, melancholy and densely produced to the point of murkiness. |
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| In addition, the film's relentlessly downbeat tone creates a dark emotional backdrop. |
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| But he took his defeat on the chin and refused to be too downbeat after his first major final since winning the 2003 Regal Scottish Open. |
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| His subsequent solo output has been marked by restraint, with broodingly elegiac melodies underpinning a more shaded, if still downbeat, lyrical outlook. |
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| A flood of downbeat news has certainly emerged from China in recent months. |
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| Here was a manager who understood the anguish of a support which, in turn, recognised the limitations of a squad but could not understand the downbeat nature of performances. |
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| Instead of aerial armadas and huge tank fleets on the ground, the military response will also be low-key and downbeat but no less effective for having such a low profile. |
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| Barely a negative vibe will be emitted from any of the bidding nations, nor a single quote uttered which might seem remotely downbeat or pessimistic. |
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| For this reason, people often view him as pessimistic and downbeat. |
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| Metre refers to the organization of beats into bars with strong accents on the downbeat followed by lighter accents. |
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| The problem is the story, which seems relentlessly gloomy and downbeat, lacking moments of breakdown and reconciliation that were so crucial to previous successes. |
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| Why did the Russian Ministry of Culture help to finance such a downbeat portrait of contemporary Russia? |
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| Most affecting is his romance with a cute, downbeat girl inmate named Andrea. |
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| Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, downbeat, the New Yorker, and more. |
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| The mood in the trade has been downbeat in the recent past, which is why producers and distributors are nervous about scheduling the release dates of their films. |
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| Today, the upbeats will become more downbeat as the trumpet tootles peter out and the sax puts a lid on the headlong rush of demisemiquavers for another year. |
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| With the steel town dying around them, Romero's personal, downbeat, bleakly beautiful movie is simultaneously psycho-thriller and black social satire. |
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| If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded. |
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| Despite this downbeat environment, Valeo gradually increased its room for maneuver while strengthening its competitive positions. |
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| Granted, the film probably soft-pedals the details a little in order to allow for an ending that, although not exactly happy, is not completely downbeat. |
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| The current state of internal evaluation in the United Nations therefore rests on this quite downbeat and defeatist note. |
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| But he took his defeat on the chin and refused to be too downbeat about his performance in his first major final since winning the 2003 Regal Scottish Open. |
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| He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension. |
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| Considering he'd just scored a brilliant goal in the FA Cup final, Pearce's celebration was on the Bill Murray side of downbeat. |
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| The chairman of JJB Sports was in downbeat mood at the firm's AGM with a glum combination of reduced turnover, lower profit margins and higher operating costs. |
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| Her blend of downbeat, melancholic indie-tinged rock isn't custom-made for the sunny climes and plastic features of LA, so what prompted the sudden move? |
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| Miners were under pressure after the downbeat data from China, a key consumer of commodities. |
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| Finally, while survey data usually provides fairly reliable signals of underlying economic trends, the more downbeat hard data of recent months casts a slight shadow on the prevailing optimism in the business sector. |
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| A breathless, syncopated section flits by, in which no melody note ever coincides with a downbeat, one of Schumann's favourite means of conveying a floating, magical unworldliness. |
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| But for European leaders, this downbeat reaction is part of a pattern: they often react morosely to success. Exhibit A is the whole process of economic reform. |
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| But Britons are getting even more downbeat. |
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| This was the largely acoustic, wholly downbeat album which described the fall-out from the breakdown of a long-term relationship and gave us a first good look at Beck's palpitating heart. |
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| This is the single downbeat comment Ali makes over the next eight hours. |
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| A Great Big World, Passenger, Hozier and Sam Smith – whose breakout slow-burner Stay With Me became an unconventional pop phenomenon – each contributed to a markedly more downbeat, moody year in music. |
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| But I think it sounds a bit too downbeat for a single. |
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| It's a louchely resigned, downbeat sound, and who does downbeat better than Lanegan? |
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| Having said that, I would like to strike a more downbeat note. |
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| Our outlook for the Japanese yen is downbeat. |
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| Two-man electro gang Thievery Corporation are renowned both for their blend of downbeat, lounge, trip hop, dub, Brazilian jazz and world music, and for their engaged lyrics. |
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| The full concert rate has always been the 135-minute rate, which in most cases was enough to cover the time of the concert from first downbeat until final cutoff. |
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| What with the war in Iraq, the fight against SARS and the financial difficulties or bankruptcy of North American airlines, the atmosphere in the first half-year of 2003 was somewhat downbeat. |
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| It featured Old Bill, a curmudgeonly soldier with trademark walrus moustache and balaclava, and proved a moralebooster with downbeat troops. |
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| What all these had in common was emphasising the downbeat of the music by enthusiastic footwork. |
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| It's more downbeat than Backbeat, but a good fit for Sky's series of one-off dramas. |
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| Now, will they pay heed or will they continue to deliver a hotchpotch of downbeat dramas and cheapskate reality shows and try to claim it is the entertainment the public want? |
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| Allan unable to break Bulgars BILLY STARK refused to be downbeat after his Under-21 side's draw against Bulgaria and expects their Group 10 rivals to cut each other up. |
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| Unlike at recent grands prix, it was not the downbeat, self-critical Hamilton that has been present at the last few races when he faced the press yesterday. |
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