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Gloomily, Suwelo decides that "his generation of men had failed women."

From Time Magazine Archive

Gloomily, many a chancellery and much of the world's press concluded that the three-weeks-old Anglo-American effort to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia was headed for failure.

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Gloomily the delegates trooped down the green and yellow carpet of Dublin's Leinster House and into the dimly lit Dail Chamber.

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Gloomily, hardly daring to look at one another, they returned to the task of getting out what might be the very last edition.

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Gloomily, I thought of Monmouth House: empty corridors, old gas-jets, the key turning in the lock of my room.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt