Sentence examples for dismal man from inspiring English sources

Another dismal man.

The interval between Bryan Singer's awful Superman Returns and Zack Snyder's dismal Man of Steel was only five years.

Persuasive arguments paint Gandhi as a dismal family man.

The running game, save for last week's outburst, has been dismal, and Manning has been forced to improvise.

The decade was completed with a steady stream of work, often with old pals – Huston on the dismal The Mackintosh Man (1973) and the masterly The Man Who Would Be King; Neame on The Odessa File (1974) and Lumet on Equus (1977) and The Wiz (1978).

To deny this truth may convince you that the defect lies in yourself, provoking despair In his 2005 book, "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America," the historian Scott Sandage offers a poignant cultural account of 19th-century economic hardships and the pitiable archetype they gave birth to: the dismal "plodder," the man who was a "failure".

Diversity in the tech industry is dismal, with white men making up the vast majority of its workforce.

It's a dismal story, describing a man relinquished to human authority, to a system bent on destroying him.

The faces in the room were the kind that always accompany dismal news reports about Afghanistan — men with turbans, men with prayer caps, men with the biscuit-shaped hat known as a pakool famously worn by the anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud.

When Richmond's waterside warehouses held goods like tobacco, flour and coffee, they also quartered that most dismal of freight: enslaved men, women and children.

Whether pretending to be a British aristocrat in New York or unsentimentally confronting his dismal childhood, De Feo's hit man is extremely likable, and the novel emerges as a study of the delights and dangers of reinvention.