(1) One influential but depressed activist said gloomily: "The problem is modern politicians have no convictions."
(2) Finally, intelligence services are more worried now than they were a year or so ago but much less concerned than they were back in the darkest days of 2003-06 when bombs were going off from Casablanca to Jakarta, hundreds were dying in Europe, Iraq was in total chaos, Afghanistan was deteriorating fast and senior spooks in London looked gloomily into their pints and spoke of "the wheels coming off".
(3) I also found a hugely-discouraging number of them talking gloomily about the difficulties they have breaking even on the app stores , because so many parents prefer to let their children play freemium games like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush Saga than pay for actual kids’ apps.
(4) But she also remarked gloomily that her Ma Larkin "may easily ruin us - the audience and critics may not accept that noisy woman in Shakespeare".
(5) Add in Below from Capy Games, Inside from Playdead and the haunting-looking Ori and the Bling Forest from Moon Studios, which was given a longer trailer and looked gloomily gorgeous and you have a decent line-up to face Sony's own inevitable onslaught.
(6) Alison Wolf , professor of public sector management at King's College London and the author of the recent Wolf Review of Vocational Education , describes the predictions of a million unemployed young people as "only too gloomily likely".
(7) Hoseah spoke gloomily about the prospects for Tanzania's anti-corruption struggle and his original hopes to prosecute the "big fish" of corruption.
(8) And amid the forecast showers in the Portuguese capital, the pair may gloomily reflect on how these bad times feel very similar to the previous ones.
(9) So all he can do is play the guitar, sing, take to drink and die young," Pariat concludes gloomily.
(10) Jill adds: And even more gloomily, Willem Buiter of Citigroup has declared that there is "no capital (banks) can hold" against a total break up of the eurozone.
(11) Thousands of Christian pilgrims and tourists jostle each day inside the gloomily lit spaces beneath the church's dome.
(12) 7.24am BST Every four years we get to use the word "permutations" a lot more than usual, starting now: If there is a positive result in the Croatia-Cameroon game, the loser is eliminated, thanks to Brazil and Mexico drawing If Australia or Spain lose, they need the other one to win to stand any chance of progressing Even a draw for Spain would leave them in a desperate position, almost certainly relying on a huge win in their final game against Australia and hoping to advance on goal difference As Vicente del Bosque rather gloomily put it : We have suffered a partial defeat and we hope it does not become a total defeat.
(13) Another middle-class professional woman reflected gloomily: "We sank very low.
(14) Given the show's propensity for grim and gloomily lit sets, Gråbøl had warned the duchess to wear flat shoes while visiting.
(15) Clark asks gloomily: "What commercial buyer would keep them on?"
Gloomy
Definition:
(superl.) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
(superl.) Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts at RBS said that on the basis of these gloomy figures, industrial output in the eurozone as a whole looked likely to have declined by about 4% in the final quarter of 2008.
(2) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
(3) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
(4) Sales on the high street were much higher than expected this month, rising at their fastest rate in six years as consumers defied the gloomy economic outlook.
(5) He said the fact that the chancellor, George Osborne, had given permission to the Bank of England to pump more economy into the economy in another round of so-called "quantitative easing" – coupled with gloomy employment figures from the US – was evidence of how fragile the economy was.
(6) The gloomy feedback from industry has raised the prospect of a triple-dip recession and a further worsening of the government's finances.
(7) The Lib Dem cabinet minister said he would "tell it as I see it" as he delivered a gloomy economic forecast, predicting "difficult times" ahead.
(8) Microsoft: bitter medicine But the story is gloomy for Microsoft.
(9) Now, however, the new administration of Hassan Rouhani is taking steps to open up Iran to foreigners in an effort to improve its international image after the gloomy years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and to bring in much-needed foreign currency to an economy reeling from years of sanctions.
(10) Thus, the prognosis of CNS granulocytic sarcoma is not uniformly gloomy if treated aggressively by combined modalities.
(11) The outlook is gloomy in the light of the potential for widespread disruption of normal social and economic activities.
(12) After a bright start to the morning, the day will turn gloomy as the solar wind lashes Britain with energetic particles and an enormous ball of magnetised plasma slams into Earth bringing a few days of geomagnetic storms.
(13) Steven Fletcher's return from long-term injury was one of few positives on another gloomy day for travelling Mackems and the Scotland striker levelled the scores with a fine header after the interval, when he had been brought on for a supposedly angry Ji.
(14) Britain Chancellor George Osborne is to downgrade his growth forecasts for the UK after a series of gloomy business surveys and sharply declining consumer confidence.
(15) With so many gloomy headlines, it would be easy to believe that irreversible runaway climate change is now inevitable .
(16) As our ambient lighting is gradually reduced from a high level, subjects use the following words - bright, gloomy, dim and dark.
(17) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(18) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
(19) This portends a gloomy scenario for the poorer populations of Europe in the 1990s.
(20) The gloomy outlook for the sector came as the music chain HMV followed camera-supplier Jessops into administration after lengthy battles by both companies to unearth business models that could compete with online retailers.