Word: glooming
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...Dopey, no wide-eyed, tender creature of the field or wood was chosen. The choice: a scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wherein two cadaverous vultures-black, grey, just a tip of vermilion on their cruel beaks-watch for the witch's death through sleet and gloom. Taken from their delicate context, the ominous birds seemed to be looking down on Europe...
...Palm Beach, rest for six weeks. The idea that he was in disfavor at the White House for having applauded the Chamberlain policy of "appeasement," he laughed off by asserting that his speeches in England were read in advance in Washington. Then he shed some of the celebrated Kennedy gloom...
...give a weird effect, especially as the solid form of the structure is almost lost in a hazy smothering of paint. Again in "Jacona Houses" the mood is melancholy, sombre, and weird, intensified by dark tones of paint, except for a splash of bluish white breaking out of the gloom on the right side of the picture...
...adventurers got up into the crypt, but couldn't locate the bulb. After groping in the gloom frantically for the string, they got desperate. On top of this, each was heavily burdened with a tripod and a pair of binoculars...
...game was one long continuation of the good taste left by Harvard's last-minute pay-off against Dartmouth. During the second quarter, with the score 7-7, the good taste was a little too fluffy for mouth comfort, but the third and fourth cantos dispelled all trace of gloom. In the first period it took exactly five minutes for the Crimson to march 75 yards for the first score. On the first play, wingback Torby Macdonald broke through the weak side of the Tiger line for 16 yards, three plays later he romped 30 yards on a wide left...