Sentence examples for dismal like from inspiring English sources

Some of the books my kids enjoy but I find dismal, like the Zionism-for-toddlers tract "Let's Visit Israel".

Spinach soufflé, one of the menu's old-stagers, suffered from the opposite problem; it tasted wonderful and airy, but looked dismal, "like a deflated Muppet", as my guest put it.

It was dismal, like trying to capture wheelbarrow-sized chunks of Jell-O with chopsticks.

And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men.

But they have never filled up with tenants and have a dismal, mall-like interior with few stylish showrooms.

The practice has led sites like StormFront to seek shelter at dismal ports like off-brand hosts and small social networks pitching their tolerance of certain types of free speech being "censored" by others.

And, modernization theorists like Seymour Martin Lipset have argued, as people get richer thanks to dismal jobs like those at Foxconn, they are able to demand more rights.

Americans can't do dismal quite like the British.

That way, you can insulate your portfolio from a dismal year like 2008.

But doom can happen, especially when unrealistic promises meet dismal facts like these: a $2 billion gap in the city's $70 billion budget; huge and steadily growing pension obligations and health care costs for city workers; middling economic growth; the unexpected and continuous costs of disasters like Hurricane Sandy.

A rare prize is the manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" on loan from the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, in which we read that "the sinister Mr Hyde" lives in Soho: "a dismal quarter like a district of some city in a nightmare".