The house is a comfortable if rather gloomy affair, the sort of place that someone retired from the wool trade might have built.

Ridding ourselves of a baseball team need not be a gloomy affair.

Dinnertime was a very gloomy affair.

Believing the gloomy, turgid affair to be a work of 'fine thoughts expressed in massive language', he had approached it with confidence.

But the meeting was a gloomy and despairing affair.

The meal had been served early; and it had proven a gloomy affair.

The Tuesday Cabinet meeting had been a most gloomy affair, thought Chase.

The dinner afterward at the Sea Light Inn was a rather gloomy affair.

The celebration party was a gloomy affair.

Rae came home that night but supper was a gloomy affair.