Showalter meant surgery and that is why he looked and sounded gloomy.

"I suppose so," Jeffords said, though he sounded gloomy about it.

Well, I don't mean to sound so gloomy, it ain't all that bad.

"How can you sound so gloomy after what we've just been doing?"

"In a hundred years we'll be dead," Bruce said, sounding gloomy.

I did my best not to sound too gloomy.

He sounded gloomy, but his eyes gave him away; they were sparkling, the eyes of a man who wants to be convinced.

"I suppose," she answered, trying not to sound gloomy and failing miserably.

The weather reports sounded gloomy, and we hadn't even reached the refueling depot.

Therefore the melody sounds low and gloomy as well.