overclouded
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What should have been a time to regroup, refocus, and rethink has been overclouded by just one more act in the circus known as the 2012 season.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012
We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor of a serene hour.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So, perhaps, Shakespeare said to himself in those years when, as we imagine, melancholy and embitterment often overclouded his sky, though they did not obscure his faith in goodness and much less his intellectual vision.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
Timothy’s usually merry face had been sadly overclouded as he watched the departure of Glory and her companions, but it lightened instantly when Mary favored his suggestion to follow and learn their fortune.
From A Sunny Little Lass by Evelyn Raymond
The exultation of the patriots of New York, caused by the Declaration of Independence, was soon overclouded.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
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