Word: glooming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even in darkest Congo, female companionship can help to lighten the surrounding gloom. The Congo's harried leaders last week could be grateful for two comely women flitting happily around the candle of fame...
...triumphal path at Los Angeles last week. The cartoonists were still having trouble capturing their man, though they were trying hard (see cuts). But the big journalistic guns of the convention-the political columnists-all thought they knew Kennedy, and they liked what they saw. Joseph Alsop, who wears gloom like a toga, was very nearly radiant. "The Senator," he wrote, "has a peculiarly effective public personality, with a strong, immediate appeal to almost every class and group of voters. The Democrats have not merely chosen a formidable contestant; they have chosen a truly remarkable man, full of promise, with...
Your quotation from President Goheen's address at Princeton [in which he said "the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achievements of solid worth"] is one demanding grave and immediate consideration. It is indeed a thing of "gloom, doom and disdain" when we hear a scholar today observe foibles recognized some half a century ago by the scholar William James...
...Senator Frank Church, 35. as their keynote speaker because his boyish good looks promised television a new generation's outlook. True to the promise, handsome Frank Church, the Senate's youngest member, keynoted a change in Democratic policy-of a sort. Instead of the economic gloom that had sustained his elders since he was a toddler, he promised global doom; instead of the old "Don't-Let-'em-Take-It-Away" theme of 1952, he urged "Don't-Let-'em-Spend-It-That-Way" for the prosperous 1960s...
...disease he encourages. The aggressive salesman makes outrageous claims for the product he wishes to sell. The novelist writes a scrofulous book in hope of being on the bestseller list, and television corrupts the public taste ... I seem to have worked myself into a most unhappy state of gloom by all this...