Sentence examples for dismal phrase from inspiring English sources

Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's economics editor, coined the dismal phrase "the graduate with no future", by which he meant students who can no longer rely on a job for life, a company pension and a welfare-state safety net.

A slim volume, you might imagine, but Mr Dougherty reels off a long list of those who have put aside equations and supplied a well-turned phrase to explain the dismal science.

The remainder of his review contains the words "dire", "repellent", "dismal", "lamentably", "unfunny" and "infantile", as well as the phrase "no redeeming merits whatever".

COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality?

In "Spectre" James Whiteside — who continues to prove himself a prodigiously strong dancer — established (despite a dismal headdress) the abundant length and flow of the successive dance-packed phrases with which the Rose Ghost pours himself into the air.

There is no alternative - to quote another resonant phrase - to Cameron and modernisation if they are serious about recovering from their last three dismal election performances.

Dismal streets, dismal lives.

"It's dismal, very dismal".

DISMAL economies are often dismal for economists.

This dismal performance left dismal scientists feeling appropriately dismal.

Risk management was dismal.