Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after disemboweling Frederick with a gardening tool.”Her hand unlocked the door; her slippered foot made the step of no return. Her eyes saw the array of sharp tools laid upon the shelf as though in wait for her. Her hand moved again through the dusty gloom, selected a pitchfork, clutched it to her breast.“Viscountess Fabreigh?”She turned. There, framed in the doorway, one hand entwined about the harsh leather of the reins, dark blond curls breathing with a life of their own in the slight morning breeze, stood...
...message was powerful and legitimate. Doctors and chefs, whether or not they’re Harvard Faculty or CIA-trained master chefs, must work together to change the American way of approaching food. Healthy eating doesn’t mean doom and gloom cuisine, just as cooking doesn’t mean rushed nights, splattered shirts, and burnt vegetables. We need to turn cooking and eating back into social events and away from their abstracted, spectator sport status. Maybe canteens in the meat- and potato-addicted states will take a while to catch on, but that should only further motivate...
...Seeking a distraction, he lit a cigar and exited the study. He wobbled down the hall, penetrating into its gloom at an uncertain pace...
...seven previous books, De Bernières uses history to define his central characters. In 1979, the U.K. was mired in economic gloom, and he maps the bleakness of that time directly onto Chris's personality. A hopeless dullard who watches youth movements sweep the world but pass him by, Chris represents the mediocrity of a time and place in which trash lined the streets and protesting cemetery workers refused to bury the dead. "His psychological state is very like everybody's in 1979 when the country seemed to be going nowhere," says De Bernières. "It didn...
...despite the gloom and doom, science fiction also displays an optimistic view of humanity. Arthur C. Clarke in particular created many utopian societies that ceased to view individuals based on race, religion, or nationality and instead regarded all as members of a shared human species. Clarke believed that peace could emerge if the same energies that result in war and genocide were channeled into space exploration and the eventual colonization of new worlds...