How To Use Dismal In A Sentence
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Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale.
Country of the Blind
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I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
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He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs.
Vanity Fair
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Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout.
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The future looks pretty dismal right now.
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Neither side show ambition as the dismal opening round hits rock bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends.
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Corruption takes root when donors expect failure and recipients know that dismal performance will bring no adverse consequences.
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The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%.
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Indeed, by the end of last year, a season in which he slumped to a dismal 133rd on the money list, he had lost his right to even play in Europe.
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At present the day was drizzling and chilly, while the huge volumes of smoke from a whole forest of factory chimneys tended to impart a deeper shade of dismalness to the dispiriting landscape.
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They can be the difference between dismal failure and glory.
The Sun
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Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me.
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Max's even more dismal New York is cast in jumbled patterns of black, white and grey, until Mary sends Max a bright red pom-pom which he wears atop his yarmulke.
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The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly.
The Dew of Their Youth
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Since the currency was launched in a blaze of euphoria it has failed dismally to realise the potential which its supporters claimed it offered.
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The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance.
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England's tactics were dismal and negative, letting the game drift in an almost fatalistic manner.
Times, Sunday Times
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took Russian sports officials to task Friday over the nation's dismal showing at the Vancouver Games, despite what he described as generous state funding.
Putin SCOLDS Russian Athletes For Olympics Flop
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Either it means the debate ratings are creeping up, or its unusually dismal Saturday night programming for CBS.CBS News is live streaming the debate right here for those you without benefit of a telly or US geographical location.7.15pm ET: So after his brain feeze last time, Rick Perry is putting in more preparation, right?
GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - as it happened
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Suddenly I fear becoming even casually acquainted with a new title lest I somehow curse it to dismal failure.
Atomic
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I always try to dress for the part, and the part just now is dismality.
The Far Horizon
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This comfort surely is owing to me; for if life is no worse than chequer-work, I must now have a little white to come, having seen nothing but black, all unchequered dismal black, for a great, great while.
Clarissa Harlowe
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And if Carter's gone back to the dismal years 1977-80 to exhume diary material, what comes next?
Jimmy Carter: Can't Stop the Typing
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They promised much in this campaign but in the end failed dismally to deliver.
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This was the culmination of a pretty dismal winter's cricket.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aside from the dismal academic record of ability grouping, it has a divisive social consequence as well.
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He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.
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Time was when they could hardly perceive the advantages of a road laid through the treacherous "hummocks" of the Dismal Swamp, and they called the iron bridge over the Elizabeth "Mahone's Folly" when it was first built, thinking that it would cripple the line.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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The popular Aussie made some abortive attempts at comebacks, with dismal results, and then turned to fulltime television golf commentaries.
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Those bright patches of colour certainly stand out from the dismal grounds of the estate.
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On nearing the lakes the creek assumes so dismal an appearance, and so funereal is the aspect of the dead scrub and dark tops of the "boree" (a kind of mulga), that one wonders that Gregory did not choose the name of
Spinifex and Sand
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The market has been tainted with poor quality products, dismal performance and overwhelming disappointment.
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In these dark and dismal days, I find it preferable to count my blessings.
Times, Sunday Times
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His donors are already bickering over who is most responsible for his dismal showing.
Times, Sunday Times
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In achieving this aim, the frequently dismal weather helps immeasurably.
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He failed dismally in his opening match.
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The dismal showing detailed by the institute plays no part in this reconstructed history.
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THE shocking new wage figures prove just how dismal the plight of struggling workers has been - and will remain for years.
The Sun
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That's a modest drop compared with the 178,000 jobs lost in the prior two months, but there is a caveat: Holiday hiring was dismal, which led to fewer layoffs in the postholiday months.
Retail-Sector Job Losses
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Barça would be giving its stamp of approval to a country with a dismal human rights record.
Times, Sunday Times
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These dismal survival figures are due to the fact that most patients in the United Kingdom present with advanced disease.
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New tracts of lands would be cultivated upon the Canal margin, and, encouraged by the State's example the proprietors of all the great unimproved tracts of Swamp lands will form themselves into Drainage Companies, by which method alone can we ever hope to witness the complete reclamation of the dismals of the seaboard.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
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I must say you are not a prophesier of '_smooth things_'" said Mrs. Elwyn, "but still, I hope the dismal things you have hinted at may not come to pass.
Lewie Or, The Bended Twig
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Physically the Great Change did not do so very much to reinvigorate her — she had lived in that dismal underground kitchen in Clayton too long for any material rejuvenescence — she glowed out indeed as a dying spark among the ashes might glow under a draught of fresh air — and assuredly it hastened her end.
In the Days of the Comet
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Letting famous film directors direct operas has resulted in both smashing successes and dismal failures.
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Alligators of the Dismal Swamp, and are always lying by to drag the Golden
Our Mutual Friend
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Egypt, with a mother to bewail his loss, another we buried in the dismal lazaretto cemetery.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Ahwan is remembered as a place where the keen, raw wind seems to come whistling gleefully and yet maliciously from all points of the compass, seemingly centring in the caravansarai itself; these winds render any attempt to kindle a fire a dismal failure, resulting in smoke and watery eyes.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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And, by the way; Chiapas is not a place with beautiful beaches but has a huge, uninviting and undeveloped coastal region of dismal black sand and turbid Pacific coastal waters interspersed with poverty stricken and impossibly hot and humid villages existing in utmost poverty.
Plan Puebla-Panama. Yay or Nay?
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1 To promote my first novel, In the Dismal Swamp, which is coming out in June 2008.
Archive 2007-12-01
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There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be.
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Transfer tax consequences, forced liquidation and business failures are among the dismal results of poor succession planning.
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It was a dismal failure.
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Christmas will be dismal without the children.
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His record as a terror fighter is about as dismal as his record as a gangbuster is laudable.
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What can one say about this dismal situation in an editorial or a commentary?
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After surveying the "ongoings" from the safe point of a masthead, he came to the conclusion that the proceedings interested him no more, and with a dismal croak he flew off to the skeö, and, seating himself on the topmost point of its ruinous gable, commented in very uncomplimentary terms upon the ways of mankind.
Viking Boys
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So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house.
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When, I thought, had he had time to learn the geography and ethnology of these dismal black habitats in the bowels of Camelot?
DOWNTOWN
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Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel.
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The look-out next morning was dismal – the river running high in yeasty waves; the boats all huddled together under the shore; the western bank hidden in clouds of sand.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The unionist campaign has been pretty dismal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Part of the dismal run is the team's porous defence which has conceded an incredible 52 goals in 29 matches.
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When, I thought, had he had time to learn the geography and ethnology of these dismal black habitats in the bowels of Camelot?
DOWNTOWN
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A 'thalassotherapy' bath - a treatment using seaweed or sea-water - was dismal.
Times, Sunday Times
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And their efforts put our current crop of men in the shade after a series of dismal displays this winter.
The Sun
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Usually he'd put a smile on his face during a meeting like this, but instead he wore a very dismal expression.
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His most recent films, execrable turkeys have achieved the seemingly impossible by being even crasser and less watchable than their dismal predecessors.
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Just take a look at the dismal performance of our boxers against boxers from other provinces.
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Even on the most dismal of wet, windy days the quality of O'Meara's stock is apparent, from the dazzling display of winter colour polyanthus and camellias to the serried rows of bushes and trees, both bare-rooted and in containers.
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The outlook for the economy remains as dismal as the weather forecast.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bungle has been branded ‘dismal’ by a passenger group based in Manchester, which is calling on Network Rail and train companies to start planning ahead to make sure it never happens again.
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It was a dismal performance and another man might have been broken by it.
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Today they entertain a Wycombe side on a dismal run of one point from five games, scoring one goal.
The Sun
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The league's nonconference winning percentage was worse than last season's dismal figure.
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Eight matches were lost due to the referee problem and two because of unseasonal weather, getting the season off to a dismal and difficult start.
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However, the by-elections involved real votes and real people, and the results are no less dismal for them.
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He even had the hypocrisy, at times, to felicitate himself upon his escape, and to draw bleak fireside pictures of the dismal future which would have been had he and Frona incompatibly mated.
CHAPTER 15
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So far, the government has failed dismally to respond to this epidemic.
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He has a 151-foot ocean-going yacht, the Highlander, with a helicopter deck (even though it's been temporarily mothballed in deference to the dismal economy) and I don't.
A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme
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Marian's mind was made up, and she withstood all the persuasions of Gerald and Agnes that it was nothing -- nonsense -- only Clara's dismality -- they would laugh at her for coming for nothing.
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
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Apart from the general air of dismalness, the place was as I had left it the night before.
The House on the Borderland
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That is despite a dismal display against Croatia earlier in the week.
The Sun
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The beautifully coloured and almost transparently winged golden moorhen covers every stretch of water inland, and the "chaja" or wild turkey, one of the most useless birds in the Chaco, and quite uneatable, sends forth his dismal cry "chaja.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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After some hesitation she wrote on Skip's note the "scatting" words, _ "Nothing doing" _ and sent it back by the dismal stage doorkeeper.
We Can't Have Everything
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It was the look of them, partly: the skanky paper, the low-mirth smudginess of their production; but also the dismalness of the schoolyard world they portrayed: discipline versus cheekiness, small victories, practical jokes, jeering, every teacher undernourished, every kid drawn as though he had rickets.
Kalooki Nights
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For many bulls, this is one ray of hope in the economy's overall dismal picture.
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How can this dismal pattern of declining productivity and rising costs continue more than two decades after it was first identified, especially when the Postal Service has invested millions of dollars in flats automation equipment?
Coyote Blog » 2010 » May
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Thus, when one side was bathed in light and warmth, the other would be a cold, dismal place shrouded in darkness.
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These dismal survival figures are due to the fact that most patients in the United Kingdom present with advanced disease.
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The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
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Afternoon turned into evening, evening into a dismal, dark, rainswept night.
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One site that does a quality job (however sobering and gloomy) of collecting dismal dots to connect, is so-called Mike Ruppert's so-called blog.
Take me out to the shell game (Jack Bog's Blog)
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But in my office, when I have nothing to do, the world seems do dismal, pointless and punishing that it can be hard to remember flowers and sunshine.
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Sir Nicholas: Dismal. Once again, my request to join the Headless Hunt has been denied.
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All the contestants on the show fared dismally, with no-one winning over $16,000.
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Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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He went through the big house by himself, and he admitted to me that it had an uncomfortable feeling about it; but, of course, that might be nothing more than the natural dismalness of a big, empty house, which has been long uninhabited, and through which you are wandering alone.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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Twenty years ago, overgrazing reduced this place to a dismal slough.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone that would vote for this dismal excuse of a senator is the same!
No love for Harry Reid on the Tea Party Express
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Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat "down front," crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to "run it through just once more" with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_ -- not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated.
Miss Billy's Decision
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Of course the utilitarians have laid the foundations of such a science, with the result that the nicknamer of genius called this branch of science "pig philosophy," making just the same blunder as when he called political economy "dismal science.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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The coaches must get the offense in a productive mode after last season's dismal performance.
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Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos.
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Such dismal consumer sentiment may come as a surprise to retailers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps he wished to hear that she was in a fit of the dismals so that he could know the satisfaction of thinking that it served her right.
The Outrageous Dowager
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As well as reform, ministers should focus on compliance: many countries with dismal human rights records ignore court findings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even Randolph always such a steady chap — was in a fit of the dismals from the moment they left Westford.
The English Witch
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His donors are already bickering over who is most responsible for his dismal showing.
Times, Sunday Times
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This dismal failure is totally avoidable.
The Sun
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The company is reviewing its British operations after a dismal performance last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the past couple of weeks many expert ideas have been bandied around connected with Sri Lanka's dismal showing in South Africa.
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But a new obstacle now arose in his troop; they had reckoned on a civic supper with their comrades of the guard; and the notion of bivouacking in front of the Abbaye, under the chilling wind and fierce showers which now swept down the dismal streets, was too much for their sense of discipline.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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Almost all of us then try to remember the date, fail dismally, feel inadequate and ashamed and resolve to be more attentive to our mothers.
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The unionist campaign has been pretty dismal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cod's the best bit here, but in nutritional terms, it trails a dismal second to oily varieties of fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, mackerel and swordfish.
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The long and short of it was that if one wanted to be dowly, the dismals could strike as deeply in Yorkshire as in London.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.
Walden
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First, I managed to get up at 4am, even after a really dismal night's sleep.
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It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.
Safety in lakeside
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At times and in places, peasants were scratching the dismal surfaces with the sort of plows which Abel must have used, when subsoiling was not yet even a dream; and between the plowmen and their ox-teams it seemed a question as to which should loiter longest in the unfinished furrow.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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When the dismal news of his great loss was carried to the Prince, he suspected his godmother very much indeed; but, he knew that his servants must have kept company with the malicious beldame, and must have given way to her, and therefore he resolved to turn those servants out of their places.
Reprinted Pieces
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This was the culmination of a pretty dismal winter's cricket.
Times, Sunday Times
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As UK television churns out dismal sitcoms and docusoaps, the nation that invented trash TV is taking risks and winning.
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Add to this, that his long absence from the great world, and total unacquaintance with the common dangers of life, made him form of them an idea far more dismal than the reality.
The Monk
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It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency.
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They can be the difference between dismal failure and glory.
The Sun
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AMONG SERIOUS kayakers, the very words ‘sit-on-top kayak’ elicit visions of tourists haplessly paddling rental boats in dismal circles on man-made lakes.
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Hers is clearly a more acute and dismal spiral than his own.
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Try as I would, I couldn't seem to make a decent cup of tea, and it even looked odd - a dismal grey instead of a healthy brown.
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This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance.
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Agency leaders confirming this with Congress each year generally can avoid anything stronger than a verbal reprimand about their job performance, no matter how dismal security really is back home.
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At such times, if Adams was present, he might recognize "organdie," or "taffeta," or "chiffon," as words defining certain textiles, but the rest was too technical for him, and he was like a dismal boy at a sermon, just waiting for it to get itself finished.
Alice Adams
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It was strange to her how much the scenery had changed, from eerie and dismal to lush and dark.
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They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.
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Southampton, after a dismal run, have now won three without conceding.
Times, Sunday Times
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He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.
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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
Bumpy Start To BP Fund Puzzles Gulf
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This was a dismal display, which underlined the team's defensive deficiencies and need for a goalkeeper of real quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your dismal little country in the armpit of Nowhere.
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Dismal stock markets have led to a significant drop in fund-raising by Indian firms and global headwinds have further acerbated the situation.
Dark Days Ahead for Bankers
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Fleming, who was a member of the ANC's Pretoria Central branch, said he had left the ANC because of what he termed a dismal lack of democracy in party structures.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The fort itself was a dismal enough place, on flat land west of the river, with baldhead prairie stretching away forever and coyotes waking the dead at night.
Isabelle
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We knew we were in for a lashing from the press because to lose to the USA made us the laughing stocks of the game and really it was dismal.
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Both failed dismally, and not merely for technical economic reasons.
After Thatcher
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The people of Tampa are going to build a new stadium for their perennially-dismal pro football team.
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This is nowhere near as dismal as it sounds, because they include payroll bureaux representing 5,000 companies, so a total of 6 million employees is now covered.
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The shady lava lamp in the corner of the room supplied a dismal crimson light, the bubbly pink shimmers on the wall fell onto his flaccid, ageless, sweaty body.
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Cote said the dismal job market feeds credentialism, meaning employers can push up the credentials necessary for students to get a foothold in the job market.
Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
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ILOILO CITY, Philippines-Environmental groups lamented what they called the dismal end of the global summit on Copenhagen and issued a challenge to the ...
WN.com - Articles related to XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India October 3-14, 2010
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But these were thick, doughy lumps filled with the most dismal shrimp paste.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fulham just cannot find a way to turn their attacking football into victories and have now picked up just two points from 12 in a dismal run.
The Sun
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It was the high-flying brent who, knowing how the sensitive girl, made keenly conscious at every turn of her defective training and ingenuous ignorance, had often watched their evening flight with longing gaze, now "honked" dismally at the recollection.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
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Significantly, the yellow cards shown to Kidd and Honor took Airdrie's haul of bookings this season to a dismal 87.
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You can't occupy yourself with dismal thoughts all the time.
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Neither side show ambition as the dismal opening round hits rock bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Robins at least ended their dismal run of six successive defeats with three new signings.
The Sun
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In the morning as the dismal crowds drained from their former residences into the Mission Square the old man died.
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Yet, it was dire, dismal, as dreary as the grey mist that enveloped the new stadium for the duration of the game.
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The folderol that followed was rather dismal, with angry conservative politicians threatening to reform the judiciary.
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On nearing the lakes the creek assumes so dismal an appearance, and so funereal is the aspect of the dead scrub and dark tops of the "boree" (a kind of mulga), that one wonders that Gregory did not choose the name of
Spinifex and Sand
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But, Nabokov being Nabokov, what clinches it for me is that dismal haze — which could equally be described as a dolorous haze or you see where I’m going with this as a Dolores Haze.
Lolita’s Ancestor - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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It sent a chilling message of cold and dismal feelings through my body; I didn't want to hold on any more, so I gently removed my fingers from the window.
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as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed
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The remaining lots and fifty thousand nine hundred seventy-five acres (some of which land was already conditionally sold) he directed to be disposed of, together with his live stock, government bonds and shares held by him in the Potomac Company, the Dismal Swamp
George Washington: Farmer
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His bronze was Britain's third medal of the Games, sealing a remarkable turnaround in fortune after a dismal first week.
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Why should members bother to belong to an organisation that negotiates such a dismal contract?
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The future looked dismal due to the lack of spare tires and a dwindling oxygen supply.
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As the drama moved to a new timeslot on Thursday nights a year later, the storylines got darker, heavier and soapier and the ratings went downhill, from 9,7 million in 2003 top episodes attracted over 13 million viewers to dismal 5,6 million in 2006.
Televisionista
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Supporting this dismal outlook astronomically, Marks notes that on Tuesday Jupiter, the planet of good luck and expansion, will leave the sign of pisces, a sign of dreams and illusions, and enter aires, an aggressive and explosive sign.
Dan Dorfman: Stars Signal More Political Uheaval
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Perhaps it's because the Spanish love their country so much that they don't fancy the cold, dismal UK and realise our streets are not paved with gold.
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And, indeed, each time that I cast the stone, the noise of the stone to make a little trouble and dismalness in mine ears; for all did be so quiet and desolate and lost in night, that it to make us to need to be likewise so quiet, and to desire that we might go upward so silent as shadows.
The Night Land
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You are a fine player… even if your refulgent threads are from Huggy Bear's dismal 1975 spring collection.
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
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The dismal record of government programs costly ten times more than they were estimated and requiring constant tax bailouts is there for all to see.
What's next for health care?
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Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather.
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And so the Duke, satirically amused at the obvious embarrassment of the other "notabilities" assembled, did nothing whatsoever to relieve or to lighten the conversation, which remained so utterly dull and inane that Alwyn, who had been compelled, for politeness 'sake, to appear interested in the account of a bicycle race detailed to him by a very masculine looking lady-doctor whose seat at table was next his own, began to feel a little weary, and to wonder dismally how long this "feast of reason and flow of soul" was going to last.
Ardath
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Yet every economics student knows that when you start out in pursuit of the dismal science, you are given two textbooks: one about microeconomics and one about macroeconomics.
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The recent emergence of Bobby Jindal and Rush Limbaugh in the intraparty maelstrom yet affords fresh opportunities for conservative dismality.
Transterrestrial Musings
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Authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner make the dismal science a lot less dismal by regaling readers with one counterintuitive economic analysis after another.
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There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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These attempts at brightness, I'm afraid, only accentuate the dismalness of the hall itself, an ironic testament to its designer, Phillip Johnson, one of the great tastemakers of the 20th century.
Howard Kissel: Ravel et al. at the Philharmonic
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Snowdrops look best when left to their own sense of wild abandon; swathing woodland and gardens in bright whiteness, and challenging the dismal grey light of winter.
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We have seen that, if there was one ambitious scheme in his calculation which, though not absolutely generous and heroic, still might win its way to a certain sympathy in the undebased human mind, it was the hope to restore the fallen fortunes of his ancient house, and repossess himself of the long alienated lands that surrounded the dismal wastes of the mouldering hall.
My Novel — Volume 09
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As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue.
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The slow, dismal tolling of bells; the masked and muffled familiars; the Dominicans carrying their horrid flag, followed by the penitents behind a huge cross; the condemned ones, barefoot, clad in painted caps and the repulsive sanbenito; next the effigies of accused offenders who had escaped by flight; then, the bones of dead culprits in black coffins painted with flames and other hellish symbols; and, finally, the train closing with a host of priests and monks.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating.
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No wonder they call economics the dismal science.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never has his favourite phrase sounded so dismally precise: My, my, ain't the world strange.
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We see this as nothing but the most dismal of choices and are saddened to see the determined few who want to create the ruination of many.
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Kerry and Cork confrontations normally generate a good degree of passion but this contest failed dismally on that score.
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He must be aghast at England's dismal results, even if he does not blame Robinson for the lack of a global vision for the defence of the world title.
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Fulham just cannot find a way to turn their attacking football into victories and have now picked up just two points from 12 in a dismal run.
The Sun
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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
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In this venerable mansion there was one chamber whose dismal and singular constructure left no doubt of its having been a part of the original monastery.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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THE shocking new wage figures prove just how dismal the plight of struggling workers has been - and will remain for years.
The Sun
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They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors.
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The movies were the primary retailers of the myth, and Hollywood failed dismally in its attempts to sell the dangers of the international conspiracy.
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Yet every economics student knows that when you start out in pursuit of the dismal science, you are given two textbooks: one about microeconomics and one about macroeconomics.
