Sentence examples for dismal aspect from inspiring English sources

A dismal aspect of our intolerably bleak summer reading of the short life of Peter Connelly – Baby P – was the disintegration of his mother Tracey into an amoebic mass of appetites.

The most dismal aspect of this stunt isn't the lowering of the status of the presidency – as Barack chews raw blubber or spoons Grylls for warmth – but the Putinesque hard-man showmanship.

It was one of the dismal aspects of the general election that green issues barely featured.

During the cold war era, for all its dismal aspects, there was more recognition of constraints and limits, and history, in any case, was going more slowly.

They involve an impulse to transfigure the horrific, the chaotic, and the merely dismal aspects of one's experience into a compelling story with a pleasing symmetry and shapely beauty — in other words, a work of art.

What a dismal prospect for human society, if true!

This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.

THE figures still look dismal.

The district government administered BHUs presented a dismal picture in all the aspects.

It had grievously missed out under two Kikuyu-dominated administrations and under Mr Moi's Kalenjin one.One of the most disturbing aspects of the book is the dismal performance both of the World Bank and of Britain's Department for International Development DFIDDepartment for International Development DFID

Gay-rights advocates expressed confidence on Thursday that Governor Paterson's personal involvement could make a difference, despite his dismal approval ratings and struggle to advance other aspects of his agenda.