Sentence examples for dismal reflection from inspiring English sources
"After Seeing a Dismal Reflection of Itself, a City Moves to Change" (news article, May 30) captures the 21st-century flavor of Lawrence, Mass.
Everything about it was a dismal reflection of the campaign so far, which has essentially been the political equivalent of watching ineffectual parents trying to meet the berserk demands of a truckload of tyrannical infants at a birthday party.
The body may decline, may seem a dismal reflection of what went before, but the mind has a healthy continuity, and some kind of inbuilt fidelity to itself, a coherence over time.
"It's a dismal reflection on the state of Guatemalan politics and of the disconnect between parties, political leaders, and the people they're supposed to represent," said Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin American program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
Dismal graduation rates reflect this.
The increase in these actions may be a reflection of the dismal economy: in recessions, when overall spending lags, advertisers must fight harder for customers.
The win was a time for reflection back tothe dismal days of 2011.
He told me, "It's a depressing reflection on the dismal state of UK drug policy thinking in government that, despite evidence from reforms around the world, and indeed despite advice from their own expert advisors, they have again rejected pragmatic evidence-based policies like decriminalisation, supervised consumption venues and heroin-assisted therapy.
These dismal health indicators are a reflection of poor governance [ 4], poor macroeconomic performance [ 5] and poor national health system performance [ 6].
His first book of essays, "The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade," introduced this unusual writer to a public mostly unaware of the lyrical reflection that can be involved in the necessary and wholesome task of burying your fellow citizens.
Dismal streets, dismal lives.
