No wonder that Christine Lagarde was trying to introduce some light, to go with the gloom, in her remarks at the BBC World Debate, in the main atrium of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday.
Wall Street, which has shaken off its recent gloom with a vengeance (see article), points to three prompts for shoppers.
Mr Romney and his aides sought to soften the message of economic gloom with talk of a brighter future ahead, and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger attacks on the president.
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She said that people did not engage with 'doom and gloom' messages, leaving them feeling powerless.
My lovely wife, Virginia, says I almost always end these posts with a forecast of gloom and doom.
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His chance to flee their Dickensian gloom comes with the appearance of a magic peach in the garden: he crawls inside, where he finds a posse of insect friends, and travels by air and sea to an improbably benign New York.
The handset industry is now trying to deal with a pervasive sense of gloom.
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Lawmakers are wringing their hands with forecasts of doom and gloom, all the while playing a game of political chicken.
Already rattled by the NASDAQ's sharp reverses over the summer, dotcom companies watched the latest swings with a gathering sense of gloom.
The financial news in Europe is doom and gloom these days, with Greece headed for default.
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Bulls, like myself, point to the contrarian implications of this gloom and doom coupled with decade low equity valuations.
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By the Mendocino County line you are surrounded by tan, wide-open cowboy country, which gives way to the gentle green vineyards of Anderson Valley, then to dark corridors of redwoods, with shafts of sunshine piercing the gloom like smoky spotlights.
Tweak these assumptions with more informed growth estimates and the gloom-and-doom graphs that Ryan presents would shrink significantly.
When EA launched Sim City they took the gloom mechanic one step further with a UFO that crashed.
But with most countries emerging slowly from the gloom, the theme at this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) -- Shared Norms for the New Reality -- is intended to move the agenda away from collective navel-gazing, towards a post-crisis mindset based on pragmatic realism.
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In the gloom of nature, a man with a hunting rifle was walking through sparse forest.
In any event, with most of the Russian Federation deep in gloom, if not despair, Estonia's ethnic Russians are beginning to realise how lucky they are.
Based on my visits with nanotechnology insiders, research scientists and venture capitalists, I can happily report that, despite the overall gloom gripping the country and the stock market, the emerging nanotechnology business is buzzing with activity.
But given the zeal of global warming alarmists and their media allies to paint anything and everything associated with global warming as a harbinger of doom and gloom, we are unlikely to see even a single news article this spring pointing out how global warming is benefiting plant life as a whole.
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The government relaxed the rule in January, but by then economic gloom had settled over Malaysia, and anyone with cash to spare was holding it as tightly as they could.
However, the atmosphere quickly turned to gloom when Blackburn went in front after 12 minutes with a slick and simple counter-attack.
ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) -- Tearful Paula Radcliffe was unable to explain why her gold medal marathon bid ended with her a crumpled heap at the roadside in the gathering gloom of a sweltering Athens Sunday evening.
Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came to be known as Governor Gloom.
Wreathed in gloom and doom, "We Own the Night" is shot with dark authority by Joaquin Baca-Asay.
In the run-down suburbs around many French cities, reactions to the election result ranged from gloom to outright anger, as youths set cars on fire and skirmished with police.
But as wickets tumbled at the other end in the gloom in Harare on Saturday, he had to see out almost 12 overs with last man Fidel Edwards.
Amidst all the doom and gloom that has permeated the markets, the e-business concern has come up with some good news: higher-than-expected earnings.
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