Word: gloom
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Because he tends to dress like a mortician and has made a fair number of films that romanticize gloom, Tim Burton has emerged as one of those directors who are not just makers of myths but subjects of them too. The most prevalent Burton myth is that he is dark and possibly a little disturbed. In addition to his clothes and movies, there are eerie bits of biography to support this view, like the fact that Burton's parents blacked out the windows of his childhood bedroom, apparently to save on heating bills. (Burton grew up in Burbank, Calif...
...growing number of students arrive on U.S. campuses suffering from depression and other emotional disorders?some diagnosed, some hidden. So that traditional moment of new beginnings is haunted by deep anxiety and gloom...
British Sea Power come from a small coastal town in England, where the winds mix with saltwater and woodland air to forge an atmosphere of gloom, wavering peace and faint, distant storming that only the dogs can feel. Apparently the world ends every day there, if their brooding, dissonant debut album Decline of British Sea Power is any reflection...
...longingly await the return of longer days we shouldn’t overlook the oft-unnoticed toll that gloom takes on us, physically and mentally, as individuals and as a society. But it doesn’t have to be this way—if we save daylight when it’s abundant, why not do the same when it’s scarce? We can’t afford to stay in the dark...
...music never entirely succumbs to this gloom, with bright shiny guitar lines and evilly catchy choruses. This is pop music with growl and bite...