Sentence examples for dismal manner from inspiring English sources

It is all immensely reassuring, in a rather dismal manner.

The pastor had time to call out "murder!" in a "wry, dismal" manner, but died almost immediately afterwards.

They fell behind in a dismal manner, Borini neglecting to remember that rather elementary aspect about stepping up with the defenders to play the opposition offside.

Lippi's team, overall, has been the best in this tournament but recognition of that is muddled by admiration for the pluck that France showed and sadness that Zidane should have left the stage in such a dismal manner.

England are collapsing in dismal dismal fashion.

1990 was the year that the game began to restore its battered image from the dismal and destructive manner in which it was portrayed throughout the 1980s.

In this manner, dismal yet self-amused, Perkus propelled his body to Sixty-fifth Street, despite the headache's dislodging him from himself, working with the only body he had — a shivering, frost-fingered, half-blind stumbler in sweat- and salt-stained party clothes.

So what does it say about the state of the midday meal that we're encouraged to try all manner of dismal "lunch hacks" to make eating at our desks tolerable?

The three major shareholders had envisaged Pardew overseeing a critical trio of games against Swansea, Southampton and Hull, matches which appeared to offer him a chance to revive the team's form after their dismal run, but the chaotic manner of Saturday's surrender has put even more scrutiny on his position.

Bacon opposed American Abstract Expressionism, scorning Jackson Pollock's manner as "old lace" and Mark Rothko's as "rather dismal variations on colour".

A bright spot in an otherwise dismal season for East Carolina a year ago, Minshew shined in his Pac-12 debut by executing Mike Leach's offense in much the same manner Luke Falk did the last four years.