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

And it regenerated itself six months after Djokovic’s haunted tour of Australia, where he arrived with permission, stayed 11 days in courts both tennis and judicial, then experienced deportation and lingering glumness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2022

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

Her own nickering complaints of Norah's "glumness" sank into dumb anxiety.

From Life at High Tide by Alden, Henry Mills