Word: gloom
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...Investor gloom may well overshadow improving economic fundamentals through the summer. "The market has not bottomed," asserts Woody Dorsey, editor of Market Semiotics. "Bottoms are always made on capitulations of some type, and one may be close at hand...
PRINCELY DIGS I knew I was going to like the Souvannaphoum Hotel as soon as the rumpled bellboy showed me into its best suite and began pointing out its features. "There's no television," I said, as my eyes adjusted to the crepuscular gloom. "Correct, sir," he replied, beaming. Then he bid me a pleasant stay and turned on his heel, with nary a hint of the smarmy loitering or obsequious entreaties that generally accompany the importuning of tips in expensive hotels...
...effort. Instead, it might be better to pay more attention to what the show attempts to pay attention to: the visual aesthetic. This is made confoundingly difficult, however, by the almost comically dismal lighting. In order to set what seems like an intended an aura of doom and gloom, the lighting plot has virtually no light. The effect doesn’t enhance the mood; it does, though, enhance squinting...
...amid the gloom of the game and the cold, biting wind, I heard a familiar refrain that indicated that there was still a fighting hope in the hometown fans...
...terrible year," he says. "I hit a wall." When he received an invitation to join AARP, he wanted to burn the letter the way some people burned their draft cards during the Vietnam War. What finally pulled him out of his gloom was a call from his brother, who is two years older than he. "Your greatest treasures in life are your wife and your kids," Alan Dychtwald reminded him. And bit by bit, Dychtwald began to remember the ideals that launched him on his career...