The lights were dimmed in the ward-room and only the ghastly jungle played with gloomy colours, along which the pioneers walked, and the navigator's shiny bald spot gleamed under the bracket lamp.

Who says fashion has to be filled with gloomy colors, with those blacks and grays, to be functional?

I told them how nice it looked, and they whispered that they were tired of seeing gloomy colors, too.

I would have to put up the shutters ... And so I came to the Second Test in Sydney ready to drape myself in the gloomy colors of a Test opening batsman.

They were evergreens, and had kept such gloomy color as they originally owned all through the winter, though snow had hidden much of it.

And they were all dark colors, black, purple, red, the gloomy colors, they were grey, you know, it was just because that was the place I was in.

Here too British understatement had painted in the gloomiest colours.

The patterned antique wallpaper was a gloomy purple color, very Victorian; it was hard to see the blood spatters, but they were there when you looked.

It was as if the man stood in a vast cavern whose walls and roof were comprised of gloomy, unstable colors which would occasionally break and admit rays of light from the moon.

Richelet's provocative humour makes him choose gloomy colours.