glumness
Example Sentences
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True, but the glumness of said world is central to Hoover’s zeitgeisty appeal — a point she underlines a few beats later, Kenna insisting that the radio only ever plays depressing songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Rosario Dawson as a D.E.A. agent and Peter Sarsgaard as another U.S. attorney are uncharacteristically flat, and Stuhlbarg plays Richard Sackler on a note of unrelieved glumness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
But glumness isn’t obligatory, and in a world filled with new media that perpetually deluge us with ill-chosen words, the grace of well-executed verbal economy can be very welcome, indeed.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2021
This time mine comes back negative and I take the mantle of glumness from Dinesh's shoulders.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2020
There is perhaps no more general weakness in the average American family than glumness!
From The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell
