(1) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
(2) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
(3) I’d arrived a bit late for its golden age (my adventures in the medium took place somewhere between sunset and the gloaming of that particular period), but it was enjoyable enough.
(4) I can just see him in the gloaming, sat in his make-believe producer's chair, fantasising about presiding over a set of Hollywood stars at his beck and call.
(5) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
(6) Out walking after dinner, I stumbled across a group of around 100 women who, in the gloaming, filled a square with exquisitely choreographed dancing, arms making great sweeps of the sky, moving as one, like a flock of murmurating birds.
(7) You're struck by their ability to shift their sound completely between songs – from the crushing bass-heavy riff of Myxamatosis to These Are My Twisted Words's spindly, thin, cyclical guitars to the unsettling electronic abstraction of The Gloaming.
(8) No sudden appearances from David Starkey, looming out of the historical gloaming like the ghost of a cantankerous 1930s dinner lady.
(9) For a long time I most appreciated local colours in the gloaming when light was in the sky and streets were lit artificially.
(10) Updated at 1.38am BST 1.21am BST Wandering the town 12.59am BST This is the gloaming We've entered the American "witching hour", the time between work and everything else.
(11) While David retreats into an ever-deepening huff ("Nothing makes me happy these days"), relentlessly perky overspender Jackie stumbles through the financial gloaming like a woman who has been hit over the head with a dollar-shaped frying pan.
(12) I always feel strongly that line in The Gloaming: 'You are murderers – we are not the same as you'.
(13) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
(14) The Champs Élysées in the gloaming: a dream venue for a romantic evening.
(15) A few years after the boycott it was snowing outside the Royal Albert Hall for an evening tournament in December and Pilic emerged from the picturesque car-park gloaming in a great long leather coat and carrying his rackets like rifles.
Gloating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gloat
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(2) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
(3) Next weekend's sellout UK Feminista summer school should make the gloating critics reconsider.
(4) Indeed, as gloating Argentinians poured into Rio, they feared it could become their worst nightmare.
(5) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
(6) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(7) Ukip leaflets gloat: “Labour will keep you in.” In Westminster I hear some Labour MPs secretly hoping a Stoke loss would ignite a “Corbyn must go” move.
(8) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(9) After the first clásico of the season the rabidly pro-Barcelona Catalan daily Sport ran a front page that gloated that Bale was a failure who had not justified his €100m fee.
(10) They have been sharing stories of Trump voters gloating aggressively at them in the workplace since his victory, or harassing them because they are Mexican.
(11) I was personally tasked with writing a gloating follow-up declaring our postmodern victory in "blocking" the non-existent Islamic cisterns of evil.
(12) The president gloated : “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC?
(13) In the short term, Labour’s right and centre must weather the gloating of Corbyn’s supporters, who are loudly demanding that the doubters eat humble pie.
(14) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
(15) No one has forgotten the terrible fate of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh , burned alive in a cage by his gloating captors.
(16) They gloat about their power "one in every seven quid spent on groceries in the UK is spent by a Sun reader".
(17) But the real answer is not to gloat over his bungled mess, but to find a positive alternative that inspires the country.
(18) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(19) While loyalists have deployed Facebook and other social networks not only to organise protests but to issue threats to Alliance councillors , republicans and nationalists have used the sites as well as text messaging to gloat about the union flag coming down from the dome on Tuesday morning.
(20) The press - even Bild, which we bought for the flight home as a laugh - was pretty contrite, referring only to post-'66 justice, and far from gloating.