Sentence examples for dismal background from inspiring English sources

But against an increasingly dismal background, who would want to step into his shoes?

Lamb's commitment to helping more people with mental health problems gain and sustain employment is set against a dismal background in which about 70% of working-age adults in England with a mental health condition are unemployed.

But of course that fact has to be set against a truly dismal background.

But the most affecting is "The West Wind" (1891), a moody canvas depicting a lone woman on a gale-whipped hill, her dress billowing out as she contemplates a crashing surf seen against a background of dismal sky.

It's the dismal visual equivalent of background noise, largely ignored, adding precisely zilch to our everyday experience other than cluttering up space.

Test results, especially among the children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are dismal.

What struck me, and I am now revealing my background as a dismal economist, is quite how good the basics are.

Our preliminary data suggest that nonreactive EEG background carries a dismal outcome and is 100% predictive of mortality in comatose cardiac-arrest patients.

If programs like those Kayla and Terrence rely on become victims of the budget ax, millions of people struggling to overcome similarly disadvantaged backgrounds will face dismal futures.

Background: Pancreatic cancer is among the most dismal of human malignancies.

Why this ethnic background for the studiously genteel but evil creep, whose takeover of Meg and Petey's dismal establishment -- and dismal is the only word for Eugene Lee's wreck of a set -- is done with such aplomb?