1.   Nothing was going to darken his mood today.

2.   The bad news darkened his mood.

3.   His only real problem, the one thing that darkens his mood, is the way he left Buffalo.

4.   The announcement by Ericsson darkened the mood already hanging over the telecommunications industry.

5.   The mood was further darkened by nightly television images of U.S. hostages being held at the American embassy in Tehran.

6.   The Indonesian riots have only darkened the mood.

7.   And with no new profit warnings from major companies to darken the mood, the market actually rose in the morning.

8.   But financial scandals and threats from China have since darkened the mood.

9.   Concern about the widening war in Bosnia also darkened the mood of the summit.

10.   Most of the tunes are in a minor key, and opaque lyrics further darken the mood.