Word: glum
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...tycoon goes to Europe and eventually sheds glum responsibility (and a ditzy wife) in favor of true love-the divine Mary Astor. In the movies' highest romantic era, no film achieved more entrancing heights than Wyler's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' best novel...
...this one are not about story. They are about--dare we say it?--lifestyles. XXXX must occasionally venture into the darker depths of the underworld, visiting dank crack pads and scuzzy lairs where money is laundered or drugs cut for street sale. These director Matthew Vaughn presents with a glum and familiar realism...
...everything is so good, why are investors so glum? Those who fail to take advantage of today's opportunities because of a sense of foreboding and fear of loss remind me of John Marcher, protagonist in Henry James' novella The Beast in the Jungle. Certain that some great misfortune was about to befall him, he failed to marry the woman he loved (lest she share his fate), or to do much of anything, only to realize too late that the great misfortune fate had in store for him was to throw away his life and opportunities because of his excessive...
...airlines shouldn?t be so glum these days. They're booking more passengers, flying more planes and nudging up prices-just in time for the spring break and the popular summer travel season. But planes aren't the only things rising at the airport. So are delays...
...home for winter break, I felt little holiday cheer. The airline employees were hardly sympathetic to passenger cries for compensation, compassion, consolation – anything. This was not the way I wanted to start off the notoriously short holiday break. And just as I was feeling glummer than glum, Grinch-like, Scrooged even, I opened my New York Times to find that schoolchildren can’t celebrate “Christmas” anymore...