Bit by bit a dismal light infiltrates the darkness.
Either way, that casts a dismal light on standards of probity in Italian public life.
Marley's face, Dickens writes, "had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar".
Coming before us in the dismal light of a post-holiday hangover, Fields bears harsh but timely counsel on our social condition.
Even in the dismal light of a gray Valentine's Day dawn, Dafna Shapiro could make out the unkempt line of her eyebrows in the sterling silver hand mirror she held up to her face.
It is "horrible", though Dickens has taken measures against it being merely frightening by telling us that, in the surrounding gloom, it has "a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar".
Although the Japanese government has tried to keep the identities and details of Fukushima's workers under wraps, a series of e-mail threads has emerged which sheds new, albeit dismal, light onto the anonymous pack, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
After his show, set in an imaginary dance hall, with posts and beams and a scattering of dismal yellow lights, Mr. Jacobs brushed aside a suggestion that the fringed skirts and do-rag headbands had a '20s flavor.
Under the dismal fluorescent lighting in the hall, Tenley Molzahn, of "The Bachelor," was a bright orange sunburst.
AMONG the indignities that one may suffer when renting a Manhattan apartment — too little space for too much money, dismal natural light, tiresome flights of stairs, creepy neighbors — the lack of a dishwasher is high on many lists.
