There is nothing dismal shadowing his league, Stern said, nothing threatening to render all the dunks, the passes, the rivalries and the title quests an afterthought.
Rainbow Brite was the story of a girl named Wisp who came to a dark and dismal planet that had been conquered by the King of Shadows, who wanted to destroy color and happiness forever.
The dismal numbers cast a shadow over DoCoMo's ambitious introduction a year ago of what it hoped would be the world's first full-fledged third-generation phone network.
In my recent dreams — fading as they were like frescoes in the light — the suburban street had been darkly dismal under the yellow shadows of the streetlights, and filled with white flowers and a suffocating, deathly odor, like being buried in roses.
"Shadows have a pretty dismal repair record," he said, calling theirs "incredibly complex".
In a particularly dismal moment he quoted a remark by Andy Burnham, the Labour shadow health secretary, about an independent Scotland having to drive on the right.
But in the 18 Tests that he was to play thereafter, he aggregated a dismal 612 runs, with only five half-centuries – a wan shadow of the imperious batsman who had conquered all comers in his mid-80s pomp".
Evangelicalism, meanwhile, "marked a dismal intellectual regress in American religion [and a] blatant denial of scientific reality .The shadow of the 60sToday, the influence of these two movements can be seen in daily headlines.
In the end, Wisp defeated the King of Shadows and freed the seven Color Kids, returning the light and hope to the dismal world.
