| Despite the prevailing glumness, however, the populace turned out to patronise a gymkhana entertainment at the Light Horse camp. |
| But through all of the glumness, I was actually pretty content. |
| There are plenty of hackneyed truisms about ill-winds, silver-linings and darkness-before-dawns that can be tossed into the glumness. |
| If the corners of the mouth are allowed to droop the glumness and depression is likely to grow deeper. |
| But 'twas not the quiet of glumness that enveloped them, for they showed in every step an elasticity of spirits, as of muscles. |
| If the economy continues its current trajectory, there is no doubt that this glumness will go. |
