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Gloomy conditions may arise when low cloud cover forms a continuous overcast. This occurs annually in Southern California , where it is known as June Gloom . Anticyclones may generate gloom-like conditions if they remain stationary, causing a haze and layer of stratocumulus clouds.
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works. [1]A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) ' bad ' and τόπος (tópos) ' place '), also called a cacotopia [2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.
Octopolis and Octlantis are two non-human settlements occupied by gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) in Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. The first site, named "Octopolis" by biologists, was found in 2009.
Each miniature is placed opposite the text of a prayer set against a dark background. This book's solemnity is in contrast to the bright colours found in most contemporary books of hours and seems to reflect a rather gloomy and mournful outlook. [ 8 ]
John the Baptist (John in the Wilderness), by Caravaggio, 1604, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Tenebrism, from Italian tenebroso ('dark, gloomy, mysterious'), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the ...
Octopus tetricus, the gloomy octopus, the common Sydney octopus, [3] or the peachy octopus, [4] is a species of octopus from the subtropical waters of eastern Australia and northern New Zealand. [2] O. tetricus belongs to the Octopus vulgaris species group.
George Clooney admits he once assumed his age difference with wife Amal Clooney would be insurmountable.. In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times to promote his Broadway debut in Good ...
"It is well-known that the Kirk of Scotland, strict, if not somewhat stern in its observances, is utterly opposed to all theatrical exhibitions; in fact, amusement of any kind is in direct opposition to the gloomy Calvinistic tenets on which the Presbyterian Kirk is based. Kean's arrival in Edinburgh made a great stir [c.1820].