1. The actual signing of the treaty was a downbeat affair without any ceremony.

2. They found him in gloomy, downbeat mood.

3. Al was surprisingly downbeat about the party.

4. The overall mood of the meeting was downbeat.

5. The band seemed rather downbeat, even unconcerned about their success.

6. Notice that the patterns rarely fall on the downbeat.

7. This is not the first time that Rumsfeld's downbeat caution has contrasted sharply with Powell's greater internationalist team spirit.

8. Here the mood is decidedly more downbeat. Structural-adjustment reforms have bitten deep into the agricultural extension service.

9. Downbeat nystagmus is a term used to describe nystagmus with fast-phase beating downward when the eyes are looking forward or down.

10. Cheney may be almost deliberately downbeat, but Bush's choice was unusually illuminating.

11. Mubarak gave a downbeat assessment of the situation in the Middle East.

12. The latest economic surveys are more downbeat as a result of the recent decline in world trade.

13. A downbeat on the housing sector didn't help.

14. Its headlines were suitably downbeat and don't scream out.

15. A string of downbeat indicators has heightened fears of a second recession.

16. Despite the downbeat numbers, the Census data still show the value of education.

17. The world's biggest mining group delivered the downbeat assessment when issuing its quarterly production review.

18. The reports of the political correspondents, who had all faxed their copy while still sober the evening before were generally downbeat.

19. Both of them said the word on the same downbeat, which made them burst into laughter at how hilarious they sounded.

20. The futuristic look is nicely accomplished, without a lot of eye candy: darkish, downbeat, more melancholy than despairing.

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21. The award was announced in the May 1997 edition of Downbeat.

22. This has made him the ideal investor a decidedly downbeat era.

23. "Nouvelle Vague really changed things," explains Reid, "they covered well-known tunes in a quirky, downbeat style.

24. Following the goalless draw against Liverpool, Jos é Mourinho's response was understandably downbeat.

25. Probably, but only because it doesn't seem like a book with a downbeat ending.

26. This should, you would think, be a half note and this would start on the downbeat, over here.

1. The actual signing of the treaty was a downbeat affair without any ceremony.