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In the arts, a gloomy landscape or setting may be used to illustrate themes such as melancholy or poverty. [13] Horace Walpole coined the term gloomth to describe the ambiance of great ancient buildings which he recreated in the Gothic revival of his house, Strawberry Hill, and novel, The Castle of Otranto. [14]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
Gloomy can refer to: melancholia; The song Gloomy Sunday; The song Gloomy from the self-titled album Creedence Clearwater Revival; The Gloomy Dean, nickname of ...
At the heart of this were its central quartet of “innies”, the word used to describe those trapped in the purgatorial office block: ineffectually upbeat Mark (Scott), gloomy stickler Irving ...
They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young ...
From 2021 to 2023, the portion of parents that said they’re "doing OK" dropped by 11 percentage points. Among the group representing everybody else, it dropped by just four points.
John the Baptist (John in the Wilderness), by Caravaggio, 1604, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Tenebrism, from Italian tenebroso ('dark, gloomy, mysterious'), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the ...
He lives in the southeast corner of the Hundred Acre Wood, in an area labeled "Eeyore's Gloomy Place: Rather Boggy and Sad" on the map in the Winnie-the-Pooh book. He has a stick house therein called The House at Pooh Corner. Pooh and Piglet built it for him after accidentally mistaking the original house that Eeyore built for a pile of sticks.