Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.    From LearnThat.org.  [Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880).]

A gloomy outlook.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

gloomy faces.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The gloomy forest.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He then proceeded to make a little speech about the spirit of the age, and the influence of routine, which he described as a gloomy gnome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

MacWorld, CES promise big products in gloomy times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld gets rolling] Reference

NextMacWorld, CES promise big products in gloomy times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eye-Fi photo sharing to debut on iPhone] Reference

PreviousMacWorld, CES promise big products in gloomy times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld gets rolling] Reference

If, as seems likely, they remain gloomy, then Democrats will suffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » A Historic Achievement] Reference

Meanwhile, everything is in gloomy half-light, glimpsed rather than seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Space, nobody can hear you nuke Cylons!] Reference

Oswald had been meditating in gloomy silence, now he cheered up and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wouldbegoods] Reference

The farmer once more could not find a word to say, and stalked away in gloomy anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Tales From Many Lands] Reference

He kicked the dust up with his boots, and the two went back to the Castle in gloomy silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Arden] Reference

Above them all there is an inexorable universal law that assumes shape in gloomy powers of fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1919 - Presentation Speech] Reference

It’s lovely and rainy here in gloomy QLD - at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » A Christmas card from the Playboy Mansion.] Reference

Rose went to the "Mausoleum," as the boys called her gloomy abode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Cousins] Reference

It has been called gloomy, austere, harsh, and such other epithets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

Cairbar knew that the mighty were near, and called his gloomy chiefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal.] Reference

From that night Mark Twain's stay in England could not properly be called a gloomy one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

'I used to wonder why it was called gloomy; but it will be so no more when you are there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference

Christianity is called gloomy and stern, because it preaches the corruption of man's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV] Reference

It makes one shudder to recall the gloomy place to mind and the terrible legends connected with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There] Reference

He looked straight ahead, his expression gloomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Bloom] Reference

Not even here in gloomy ol 'Providence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rain, rain, go away....] Reference

Turned letter'd dolts in gloomy garrets hid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age Reviewed] Reference

He was filled with a kind of gloomy hilarity and pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'll Be Damned] Reference

There was a kind of gloomy satisfaction in the thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowned Hopes]

` ` To come out of it 2-2 it was kind of gloomy, '' Legace said.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Hockey - Minnesota vs. St. Louis] Reference

I also remember that he was often kind of gloomy in his outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2006 Archives] Reference

Silence, and a kind of gloomy sepulchral light, prevailed within.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian] Reference

It's been kind of gloomy and a little bit of heavy weather down there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Legal Teams For Bush and Gore File Briefs; Manual Counts in Broward and Palm Beach County Continue - November 19, 2000] Reference

Here today, gone tomorrow, 'said 3A Bonnington with a kind of gloomy relish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]

He was kind of gloomy and Spanish and he's gone and most of the staff has gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wife Of … An Irreverent Account of Life in Washington] Reference

I sense that the Mayals will not be any less "gloomy" if you were to live there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes, Mr. President!] Reference

She, too, thought they looked "gloomy," but it was not her practice to anticipate trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

A skinny, possibly "gloomy" Harlem townhouse is granted "Estate of the Day" honors at Luxist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Afternoon Wrap: Friday] Reference

It was the kind of gloomy afternoon in which one realizes: winter is nearly upon us once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka] Reference

Amen to your thoughts on remaing "gloomy" on abortion, one of the most horrible sins of our age.    From Wordnik.com.  [random thoughts for a Thursday night] Reference

And trust us...you'll see the "gloomy" news here, long before it appears in the media headlines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Bullish, But Bubble Wary] Reference

As one Democratic reviewer asserts, pessimism toward life is one tragic effect of "gloomy" Toryism.    From Wordnik.com.  ['An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review] Reference

Japan's exporter set 'gloomy' tone for earnings; Analysis by Naomi Fink, Japan Strategist.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Is China's economy really bigger than Japan's?] Reference

Despite the widespread doom and gloom, only 8% described their personal situation as 'gloomy'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference