In such novels as Drowning Towers and Genetic Soldier he displayed a gloomy vision of global warming's future ramifications.
We need to dispute both the gloomy vision and offer a positive alternative.
It is this gloomy but coherent vision that has made Kissinger a favorite of floundering anti-Kosovo Republicans.
In the gloomiest vision of the future, the parents of Baby K are simply privileged members of a callous society.
A spiral perhaps, in the gloomy vision of Arnold Toynbee, but not a closed circle.
"I have these gloomy visions of things."
Beyond their technical virtuosity, what lends them a visceral power is the film's implacably gloomy vision of man versus nature.
In these last months his gloomy vision of what occupation would do has been proved true.
Set against this gloomy vision are those who deliberately change their styles in midstream, or cultivate more than one style throughout their creative lives.
"The present tendency toward recovery could be affected," said a senior official, presenting a stronger and gloomier vision of the world economy than only a few months ago.