Sentence examples for dismal making from inspiring English sources

The results are mostly dismal, making for the sort of album that reinforces faith in big, lumbering institutions that understand starmaking.

Median returns for VC funds over the last several years have been dismal, making venture an unlikely place for cash-strapped investors to decide to park new cash.

Their performance has been dismal, made worse in the past few weeks by fears that Thailand's woes may spread.

EB The only major side with the capacity to surprise is France, largely dismal since making the 2011 final.

On top of this, an average Kibera citizen financially supports 4 5 children and lives under dismal conditions making it extremely difficult to follow special food instructions for ART, as shown in a previous qualitative study in the same setting [42], and indicated by other research [19], [43], [44].

With John Terry suspended, Kurt Zouma will join Gary Cahill in the heart of the home defence, while José Mourinho may decide Branislav Ivanovic's dismal form could make him a liability against such nimble, fleet-of-foot attackers.

This move to the dismal hinterlands of an increasingly dismal city makes a strange kind of sense.

One Lib Dem strategist said watching news channel feed of Labour MPs was dismal, and made them realise that any fragile coalition of Labour and the Lib Dems along with smaller parties would be undone by rebellious Labour MPs.

Possibly not, given the dismal decision made this year to construct the Olympic Park according to the base rules of "design and build", a Scrooge-like way of getting big buildings on the cheap.

8.23pm GMT Innings break An acceptable total given the dismal start made by England, with Buttler the obvious star with the bat, and Santokie, with four wickets and 21 runs coming from his four overs, the pick of the bowlers.

The best we can say about this modern chronicle of incineration - of the Jaffna library in Sri Lanka in 1981; the National Library of Iraq in Baghdad in 2003; the Institute of Egypt library in Cairo in 2011 - is that dismal familiarity makes the ritual fairly easy to grasp.