The glummest element is the young servant boy (Wang Xiaoxiao) who acts as our dramatic peephole on the action.

NEWYORKER: Shanghai Triad

It's the planetary scientists who probably have the glummest faces a day after President Obama announced his 2013 budget request for Nasa.

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It is true that this sixth film marks an improvement upon the last two efforts, whose combined soullessness was enough to induce paralysis, but Lucas remains wedded to a hollow, antiseptic vision of other worlds, coupled with a determination to draw the glummest possible performance from otherwise talented actors.

NEWYORKER: Star Wars: Episode III��Revenge of the Sith