gloom

Official purchasing managers surveys on Sunday, which also cover construction activity, will show if the gloom in China’s sprawling manufacturing sector extended into November.

There is always plenty of doom and gloom to go around in the financial media.

One could say the painting had gravitas, but not gloom.

It was as if all the pluck and hope and optimism in the world had just gurgled down the bathtub drain, and there was nothing left anywhere but gloom.

Oddly, the brief scare of the snuffed-out candles and howling wind seemed to break the spell of gloom cast by the Widow Ashton’s gruesome tales.