Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter gets good and cold and you need to build a fire in a stove and wrap a blanket around you. Cold draws people closer together. Crime drops. Acts of kindness proliferate between strangers. I have been in Los Angeles on a balmy day in January and seen the glum faces of people poking at their salads in outdoor restaurants, brooding over their unproduced screenplays. People in Minnesota are much cheerier, lurching across the ice, leaning into the wind as sheets of snow swirl up in their faces. Because they feel needed and because cold weather takes the place...
Radtke was glum about the Crimson's overall performance...
...roommate and I showered and got ready forclass, alternating glum silence with hystericalindignation. Then the phone rang. "I don't want totalk about it," I told my best friend. "Neither doI." he answered. He had been quadded...
...Wire, Mel Gibson, for example, used a turn as Hamlet to achieve some gravitas. The latest bardolatrous movie hunk is KEANU REEVES, who, passing up a $6 million offer to star in Without Remorse, traveled to a stage in Winnipeg, Canada, to transform himself from surfer dude to the glum, quibbling Prince of Denmark. And how has he done? A London Sunday Times critic wrote, "He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen for the simple reason: he is Hamlet ... full of undercurrents and overtones...
...America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us," wrote M.F.K. Fisher in the first of her books on cooking and eating, Serve it Forth, "We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind...