The phrase "a dismal thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is bleak, depressing, or unfortunate.
Example: "The news of the factory closure was a dismal thing for the entire community."
Alternatives: "a grim situation" or "a bleak matter."
"We felt such relief when we saw where he had moved to," Egerton says, gloomily reflecting on how dismal things are generally for such a miserable outcome to have triggered so much happiness.
A quick review of the Bill of Rights shows how dismal things have become.
Might such dismal things still happen in our happily enlightened age?
But no matter how dismal things are, there's no excuse for rude behavior.
I knew that I could never be the prettiest, or the sexiest, girl in the room, so I decided I could be the most terrifyingly hip by purporting to enjoy and endure dirty, dismal things.
But Nielsen/ NetRating estimates that a mere 1 or 2percentt of visitors to the sites are actually buying things, a dismal batting average, even by Net standards.
After a dismal first-quarter 1999, things started turning in Schofield's favor.
"It's a dismal report, and the worst thing about it is that it does not reflect the recent seizure that we've seen in the credit markets," said Michael T. Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners, a research and trading firm in Greenwich, Conn.
With no music to excuse or expand upon the stylized characters and improbable situations, the film, directed by the television veteran John Leekley (HBO's "Spawn"), remains a sadly earthbound thing, mired in a dismal realism that lies far from its natural environment.
And, according to a new study, they are among the problems that have earned Idaho an unfortunate distinction: it had the slowest Internet speeds in the country earlier this year for residential customers who were downloading things like games — a "dismal" average of 318 kilobytes per second.
