The returns from private equity investments can be misleading, he noted, typically appearing dismal for the first several years after they have been made, but then picking up as the start-up companies in which a fund has invested become profitable.
Appearing dismally oafish yourself while portraying a dismal oaf isn't comical; it is what's known in lit crit circles as the mimetic fallacy.
And they appear with dismal predictability in The Finkler Question.
"The whole country appeared so dreary and dismal, so forsaken and cursed of the Almighty, that it reminded me every day of the curse pronounced against Babylon," one traveler remarked.
THE figures still look dismal.
And that, in these dismal times, appears to be all that counts.
Ted Cruz, it appears, has had a dismal time since the Republican National Convention, where his decision not to endorse Donald Trump drew vigorous boos.
Right now, it appears to be the dismal possibility of a permanently divided continent, with, on one side of the military divide, the European Union, sheltering under the NATO umbrella, and on the other a restless, excluded, and nuclear-armed Russia.
The movie, despite generally dismal reviews, appears to have set a record for a Wednesday opening, beating "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which drew $44.2 million on its Wednesday opening in 2007.
Inflation measured by the longer-running retail-prices index leapt from 0.3% to 2.4%, the biggest monthly rise for 30 years.Such dismal news appears to vindicate critics who say that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee MPCC) has forsaken its job of meeting the inflation target.
