Gloominess

Its dark red color; its gloominess, which is partly due to its architectural severity; its four mighty towers -- all combine to cause a feeling of fear, especially on moonlight nights, when the shadows of the towers fall on the water in the moat, which still surrounds the castle as in days of old. ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)

In his work is nothing to recall the gloominess of the period; he has seen in it nothing but exploits and heroic adventure. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A "black spell" makes people forsake pleasurable things — "fireside joys" — for the "gloominess" of church service. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By this means, when the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes, into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, and disperse that gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate seasons. ❋ Joseph Addison (1695)

BofA fell 4.2% ahead of its earnings results on Friday, amid general gloominess around the country's largest banks. ❋ Jonathan Cheng (2011)

(And to feel a kindred spirit in the seasonal gloominess which comes with diminished light.) ❋ Jean (2009)

But the sheer gloominess of investors going short stocks might have something to do with it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

U.S. stocks jumped Wednesday as investors bounced back from the previous day's gloominess, bidding up stocks in a broad-based rally that lifted all sectors. ❋ Jonathan Cheng (2010)

Shopping "just takes people's minds off the gloominess." ❋ Josh Mitchell (2011)

Hurst Set by admin on Jul. 02, 2009, under Uncategorized in the story the scarlet ibis by james hurst, what does the time setting of war symbolize? besides the fact that it symbolizes death and gloominess, what else can it refer to???? please help this essay is due tomorrow!!!! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Economically, it is to hope that the Bank of England keeps pumping money into the financial markets – and given yesterday's gloominess from Mervyn King, he may well launch a third round of quantitative easing before spring. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And by the same token, how was I to guess that her brother Pat's offishness with me was anything else than temperamental gloominess of spirit? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But everyone agrees that stormy weather adds to the gloominess of the series which was filmed primarily in Vancouver, B.C., not Seattle. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Panicky investors, worried about euro-zone debt, global economic gloominess and plunging stock markets, may have let recent antinuclear sentiment and the hunt for havens get the best of them. ❋ Sean Carney (2011)

All the dark gloominess needs a little bit of a break up in my opinion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some people, one imagines, may be naturally dauntless and buoyant of heart, but with him, good spirits always seemed, far more admirably, to be the product of a strict program of self-improvement in his youth he believed, like most truly modest men, in the absolute virtue of self-improvement which had wrought deep, essential changes in a nature inclined by birth to the darker view and gloominess that cropped up elsewhere in the family tree. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gloominess extends to Wall Street, which is suffering a sharp decline in fee-generating muni-bond deals. ❋ Michael Corkery (2011)

I was 6 years old, innately high-strung, and totally caught off guard by the gloominess and seriousness of the ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More broadly, the survey showed continued gloominess among all voters about the country's direction, with nearly six in 10 saying it is on the wrong track. ❋ Peter Wallsten (2010)