mood of gloom

The same pervasive mood of gloom greeted him around every corner and on every face.

His mood of gloom did not lift.

His final painting, Farewell, depicts the mood of gloom that settled after the outbreak of war.

All the same, they make a refreshing, and quite reassuring, antidote to the present mood of gloom and doom.

Waylock awoke to a mood of gloom and pessimism.

Even her occasional moods of gloom and cynicism had allurement for Rilla.

Amanda's mood of gloom persisted.

This mood of gloom and introspection is not at all unusual in northern Europe's vast reaches of chill dark forests.

Staring morosely ahead across the dry tawny landscape, he felt himself sinking into an uncharacteristic mood of gloom and irritation.

"Cameron was determined to puncture the mood of gloom and pessimism that hangs like a great cloud over much of Europe.

Pall can also mean a general feeling or mood of gloom - or, in its verb form, "to weaken" [source: Merriam-Webster, The Funeral Source].

Throughout the city, officers on the beat yesterday spoke of a blanketing mood of gloom and bitter anger, one profound enough that some even suggested it was affecting the vigor with which they pursued criminals.

I was just working myself into a perversely comforting mood of gloom and despondency when a shadow fell across me and a mellifluous voice asked, 'Do you mind if I sit here?'

IN a not unusual mood of gloom, T. S. Eliot wrote: "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw."

"Don't leave me here to die ... And he would lapse into a maudlin mood of gloom and self-pity, or work himself up into a temper which sent Michael running into a corner to hide.

Tellingly, there's a distinct mood of gloom, and even some declarations that the election is lost, at the conservative bellwether blog The Corner, whose denizens will normally strain every sinew to see the bright side for McCain.

Then, a few minutes later, I find myself standing at the bottom of the escalators that lead to the underpass that links the B and C concourses in United Terminal 1, and a mood of gloom descends once more.

He had his moods of gloom, and fell into the Slough of Despond about once a week, to be hoisted out by patient Rob or his mother, who understood when to let him alone and when to shake him up.

Expressing a general mood of gloom about the outlook for the American-backed Arab governments, Sari Nasir, an American-trained professor of sociology at the University of Jordan, said: "They will become a targets of their own people."

Mood of Gloom and Anxiety The party's draft platform puts it this way: "We have approached a point when the previous system of economic management and government is not operating to a considerable extent, while new mechanisms have not yet started to work at full capacity."