Kutuzov, his hands still pressed on the seat, glanced at him glumly. Denisov, having given his name, announced that he had to communicate to his Serene Highness a matter of great importance for their country's welfare.

In the presence of two women scrutinizing her as if they suspected her of being there with no good purpose, a male passenger admiring her a little further off, her maid reading Trefusis's newspapers just out of earshot, an uninterested country gentleman looking glumly out of window, a city man preoccupied with the "Economist," and a polite lady who refrained from staring but not from observing, she felt that she must not make a scene; yet she knew he had not come there to hold an ordinary conversation.

"Really, I can't say." said Fred, rather glumly, as he left the table, and taking up a novel which he had brought down with him, threw himself into an arm-chair.

Java, 14, can be seen glumly shuffling alongside the swimming pool while the other 14 penguins play in the water.

The United boss could only sit in the dugout glumly as his side fell to the table-topping Reds, with the gap moving to an incredible 19 points.

The swaggering Brexit Secretary was so sidelined by PM Theresa May that he went from the touchline to sitting glumly in the stands.

The striker was pictured glumly holding a pizza after the Jags' 2-1 Premiership defeat to Dundee at Firhill last weekend.

As expected, questions were readily raised on the relevance of the Pacquiao-Vargas bout, with Arum glumly but frankly admitting that Pacquiao has got to fight 'because he needs the money.'

Little wonder Tory transport minister, Robert Goodwill, on returning from Denmark, glumly remarked Britain was two to three decades behind Europe in creating the kind of clean, safe and health-promoting city environments our near neighbours enjoy.

With Mourinho standing glumly on the touchline, Liverpool fans chanted: "You're getting sacked in the morning".

England could be forgiven for watching on glumly pondering what might have been this weekend, when Smith's well-drilled defensive charges set to work in their bid to shut out Michael Cheika's Wallabies.

CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS * January 21-April 18 * Curated by Anthony Huberrnan * In Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys's unnerving, darkly comic videos, characters sit mutely, assault one another, or comment glumly on unsatisfactory vacation experiences.