Word: glooming
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Bundie's eyes narrowed as he entered the gloom of Sever. In front of him he saw a raincoat flying out of the other side of the building. "That's him!" he cried. "The old fax -- uh, I mean or, yes." His thought ground to a halt as his body shot out of the building...
...taking his shots from impressive angles and by composing each sequence powerfully. We watch a limitless mob suddenly spring to life in their enormous dungeon; at the peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base of the slope, we watch the gate burst open at the onslaught of hundreds of men who pour forth and seem to run right at us from above. The effect is awesome...
...Casino at Monte Carlo was still firm on its foundations; the roulette wheels were running true. Princess Grace's promised return to Hollywood quickened the hearts of her countrymen. The sun bathed a harbor filled with yachts. Nevertheless, gloom last week hung over the tiny, 370-acre principality of Monaco. Reason: income taxes...
Full of skill in her own right, Actress Parker nonetheless seemed a recent graduate of an elocution school beside the quiet amplitude of her husband, his eyes full of disciplined gloom, his interpretations matter of fact, going surely but not hungrily for the passing ironies, proving that there is plain talk in the singing poets and essential lyricism in free verse...
Ship of Fools is a study in despair. The despair is not relieved by the usual dilu tions; it is not the giddy gloom of youth -"the world is bad (but I am young)," nor is it the envy of faltering age - "the world is good (but I am old)." And al though the novel is a bitter distillate of all the wonderful skill that made Kather ine Anne Porter's reputation in the '305, it avoids the smugness of the satisfied satirist - "the world is disgusting (but I am clever)." In fact there are no personal obtrusions...