gloom

Rosalía’s backing troupe wear black, so they disappear in the stage lighting—all except for their arms, popping out of the gloom in long white gloves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Everything seemed against it, from the heavy narration to the creature’s dark insides and the lead’s isolated gloom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

He says some of the projections by the stay side are all "doom and gloom", joking that the only possible negative they failed to include is "a large asteroid hitting Canada".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

While he said talks would resume this week, that was unable to lift the gloom on trading floors, with traders contemplating further rises in inflation that will force the Fed to tighten monetary policy more.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Poised for flight, with my heart thumping, I peered closer, my eyes adjusting to the gloom.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

They send out waves of joy that jolt an audience right out of the glooms and start it stamping floors and pounding fists on chairs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The energy crisis glooms over us all, as does the memory of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war that led to the closing of the canal and the rerouting of shipping round Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In their concern, the people hoped for the best, prepared for the worst, gloomed at the sinkings and took courage from their heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

"No," gloomed Lord Cranborne, "it is not being fortified by leave of anyone."

From Time Magazine Archive

James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sergeant Tozier had come up, that big-nosed man, towered over the lieutenant, gloomed down at him.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr