Literary notes about cloudy (AI summary)
The word "cloudy" functions on multiple levels in literature, ranging from precise meteorological description to rich, metaphorical symbolism. In many works, it simply sets the atmospheric scene—a dull, overcast morning prompting characters to adjust their plans as in [1] or serving as a marker of improved conditions later in the day as in [2]. At other times, "cloudy" enhances mood or characterizes mental or moral ambiguity; it imbues landscapes with a somber or foreboding quality as seen in descriptions of dark, brooding skies in [3] or the pervasive gloom that mirrors internal disquiet in [4]. Additionally, the term occasionally takes on an almost mythic dimension, suggesting an enigmatic barrier or mystery in both nature and human experience, for instance when it denotes a vast, obscure element that shapes the narrative’s tone as in [5].
- The moring was cloudy and continued to rain as usual, tho the cloud seemed somewhat thiner.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - A bright morning so early in the year, she allowed, would generally turn to rain, but a cloudy one foretold improvement as the day advanced.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - By day, along the astonish'd lands The cloudy pillar glided slow; By night, Arabia's crimson'd sands Return'd the fiery column's glow.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott - There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - He, wrapped in darkness, being also official, bears it on his giant shoulder; cloudy invisible Atlas of the whole.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
