Sentence examples for abysmal role from inspiring English sources

Despite his health problems, which certainly merited the support he got, Strawberry has proved again and again that he is a bad actor and an abysmal role model for baseball's young fans.

Senator Espada, who has failed to file campaign finance data and is the subject of at least two investigations, is an abysmal choice for this role.

He was demoted from the closer's role during an abysmal A.L.D.S. in which he racked up a 16.50 ERA over two appearances against the A's (including a three-run ninth to hand Oakland a 4-3 vintory in Game 4) — and then made that look good with a 54.00 A.L.C.S. earned-run average against the Yankees (four runs in two-thirds of an inning).

As mayor of Oakland in 2003, he called the state's sentencing system an "abysmal failure" and said he regretted his role in establishing it during his first stint as governor in the late 1970s.

(And, worryingly, the study of trauma has both a dubious intellectual history and an abysmal track record, not least because of its role in the sexual-abuse scandals of the eighties and the recovered-memory travesty of the nineties).

Rumors that Ledger's role as the Joker pushed him into the abysmal funk than ended in his premature death of a prescription drug overdose drew the viewer in.

Use good words e.g. abysmal, frightful, outrageous.

Mayor Edward I. Koch's relationship with minorities was considered abysmal, and black and Hispanic leaders were striving for a more prominent role in city government.

Father Roseberry's abysmal theology will keep the church as dead as his beliefs about the role of God in our lives today.

That's abysmal.

They've been abysmal.