“For the country as a whole, the era of double-digit price increases is over. Perhaps most telling, builders have recently become a lot glummer.”
“The PrimeTime is like a comedic particle accelerator, smashing together the elements of today's Germany. It would have been unthinkable six decades ago, when the country was much poorer, a lot glummer and far less diverse.”
“Horace was even glummer than ever, as soggy as his own oatmeal.”
“After a while, the group paused for wine and crackers — the glummest cocktail hour ever.”
“Diane is the glummest variation of the kind of tough, cynical skeptic that Ms. Keener can be counted on to lend a depth and complexity like no other actress.”
“Between them, these three sepulchral pieces make for the glummest 50 minutes you are likely to spend in a concert hall, short of some Russian composers at their most broodingly introspective.”