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doom and gloom

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  1. doom and gloomnoun

    Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.

  2. doom and gloomadjective

    Feeling, or acting in a manner consistent with, pessimism and despair.

Wikipedia

  1. Doom and Gloom

    Doom and Gloom is the lead single taken from GRRR!, the 50th anniversary compilation album by The Rolling Stones. It was premiered on BBC Radio 2 on 11 October 2012. The song's recording marked the first time that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood had been in the studio together for seven years, since completing their 2005 album A Bigger Bang. A lyric video was released on YouTube the same day. The song charted at #61 on the UK Singles Chart, #26 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and #30 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart in October 2012. Rolling Stone named "Doom and Gloom" the eighteenth best song of 2012.

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  1. Doom And Gloom

    Doom And Gloom is a short comedy film directed by John McKay.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of doom and gloom in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of doom and gloom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of doom and gloom in a Sentence

  1. Historic Environment Scotland:

    Climate change is a really real present risk. The climate has already changed because of the influence of humans. And it's going to continue to change and that pace of change is going to speed up, so the risk to sites like Skara Brae and other sites around Orkney, it's real, it's here, it's happening. But it shouldn't all be doom and gloom and despair. There is an opportunity to still do something about it and to avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change.

  2. Joanne Markham:

    Receiving the photos after all this time was a nice surprise, especially after all the doom and gloom of the last year, it was a bit of a shock to see the photographs because I never thought I would see them again.

  3. Florida GOP strategist Rick Wilson:

    I do think he's going to try to reach the American people in a way that tells a story of a very different, optimistic, prospective vision for America, that isn't just the doom and gloom that we tend to get an awful lot of the time on our side.

  4. Barry Schwartz:

    It's not the apocalypse, it's not doom and gloom, and if it's not doom and gloom you can come out of the bunker and the first thing you do is take a sigh of relief and then you want to make money.

  5. Rikard Scoufias:

    Our view has not changed. We have a commitment to investing in Greece, it's not only doom and gloom. There are actually investors who are looking in Greece and our partnership with the Hellenic Republic has been very constructive.


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