Madame has moments of melancholy.

Why so melancholy?

You mean like the blues? No.

You won't be moping around, like you did all summer.

Some chicken breast to chase away the blues.

I think it's the name of an Evanescence song because it's used to treat depression, or at least in the past it's been used to treat depression.

But there are two pieces of good news that break through the gloom.

Your grandson. Last night he seemed inclined to melancholy.

Not running from loss, but entering grief, surrendering to sorrow.

Quit that strumming, monk! It's depressing!

There's nothing as dreary as the view from this window on a dreary evening, is there?

On a typical day, do you wake up with hope or gloom?

Not surprisingly, the atmosphere at this year s World Economic Forum was grim.

That would cast at least one ray of light on the gloom that envelops Japan today.

And he would be left with an emptiness, to return to his bleak, lonely existence.

Stay human.

The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long.

Russia s record is equally bleak on other items on the summit s agenda.

Whenever I get grim and spleenful, whenever I feel like knocking people's hats off in the street, whenever it's a damp, drizzly November in my soul, and I know that it's high time to get to sea again.

This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much heralded summit between two of the world s great democracies.

Indeed, the record of Internet companies in authoritarian countries is both consistent and grim.

God is in the Neurons

To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.

Where not long ago sunshine and solidarity were the order of the day, depression and confrontation are now the rule.

What makes this desolate economic landscape even gloomier is the striking inability of European leaders to explain what has happened and is happening to their citizens.

Given this very somber picture, my country has decided to take an active part, together with other Member States, in verification of the implementation of the sanctions imposed by the Security Council.

For all the gloom with which 2010 ended, the new decade has begun with a glorious example of the indefatigable courage of the human spirit. What lies ahead will not be easy.

So, part of this story, I think well, it's a terrifying story, it's a very dark story and it's a story that continues on in many of the developing cities of the world.

I robbed that bank 'cause I got tired of seein'... children roaming' the woodlands without food... children roaming' the highways in this here depression... children sleeping' in old abandoned car bodies and junk heaps.

Ultimately, the spiritual gloom and existential dread that we have come to associate with Eastern Europe are merely an extension of our own.

It is difficult to answer these questions with much conviction while we are still in the midst of the crisis. Indeed, every passing day now seems to bring worse news even weekends no longer provide respite from the steady stream of gloom!

NEW DELHI India s sliding economy has inspired gloom and doom far and wide, but increasingly bearish sentiment is misplaced.

At a time when Europeans are full of self doubt, though perhaps not as morose as the French, this praise from thoughtful Asians is more than welcome.

If Europe doesn t find a way to reactivate the continent s economy soon, it will be doomed to years of gloom and endless mutual recrimination about who sabotaged the European project.

Perhaps because they are older and more cynical, European societies seem to bask in a collective moroseness, from which they have difficulty emerging.

High unemployment rates even for the more qualified young people demonstrate the great difficulties facing their integration into the workforce and, as a result, the depression and lack of well being among youth.

But the superb sunshine in Davos these days cannot avoid the shadows of the financial crisis that have enveloped the world, casting an atmosphere of gloom and doom on this year s meeting.

You work by learning, and you learn by working.

Of course, there is some truth in this characterization of America (and quite a lot in that of Bush), but the picture is not uniformly bleak.

In short, the rapid depletion of resources, the plummeting of economies, the disturbing increase in the number of displaced persons and the near collapse of infrastructures are all occurring against the backdrop of profoundly dismal prospects for an end to hostilities.

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