mood

• bad mood

  I was in a really bad mood at school.

• change of mood

  She stared, bewildered by his sudden change of mood.

• good mood

  in a good mood today

• prevail mood

• when the mood

  ‘Only very occasionally, when the mood took her.’

• capture the mood

• sombre mood

  Arty sat in sombre mood, thinking of death.

• expansive mood

  Come nightfall Tony Jacklin was in an expansive mood about the performance of his side.

• general mood

  The general mood of these films is sombre.

• mood swings

  Only a few years, and Roth will have to cope with Big Mac's adolescent mood swings.