Sentence examples for Not dismal from inspiring English sources

The performance, though not dismal, must have disappointed investors.

The spat might not matter so much if relations between East Asia's two great powers were not dismal already.

He warned of "a dim if not dismal future" for the alliance unless its European members increased their participation, and he said that Washington would not forever pay for European security when the Europeans could do that for themselves.

Every description of his work has to be qualified and qualified again: it is compressed but not dense, lyrical but not sweet, dark but not dismal, quiet but not calm.

Without more and wiser European military spending — on equipment, training, surveillance and reconnaissance — NATO faces, as Mr. Gates rightly warned, "a dim if not dismal future" and even "irrelevance".

In a blistering attack on Europe - which he accused of complacency over international security - Gates predicted a Nato consigned to "military irrelevance" in a "dim if not dismal" future unless allies stepped up to the plate.

The waiting game means Motorola's key metrics for the June quarter are likely to be gloomy, though not as dismal as the March quarter's.

But surely not this dismal.

That's not so dismal, is it?

All is not entirely dismal when it comes to annuities.

At least Rutgers can see improvement in its play, if not its dismal record (1-8).