The post-Michael Jordan Bulls were a dismal, star-crossed team, suffering a decade of mediocrity until a gust of good luck blew their way.
Improving the HipChat app, which had a dismal 2.5 star rating, compared to the beta's 4.5 stars, is a very good step.
That would give the app a dismal 2.2 star rating if only the reviews for the past month were on display in the App Store.
Most Chinese urban areas teem with economic activity, but on Rhode Island Avenue the places of business were few and under siege: a dismal-looking Star Pawn; a Good Ole Reliable Liquor Store; a Tony's Neighborhood Market Grocery, owned by Korean immigrants, that had thick Plexiglas barriers around the cash register.
The Vatican's daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has given a dismal review to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," even as it breaks box-office records.
By 2005, they were doing "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz," a dismal TV movie starring Ashanti as Dorothy.
U.S. Global's Eastern European Fund recently followed a dismal start in 2000 with two stellar years, garnering a four-star Morningstar rating and prompting Holmes to hit the road touting it.
According to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys, the picture starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges could debut with just $15 million -- a dismal start for such an expensive production.
Martha Coolidge's dismal comedy Material Girls stars Haylie Duff and her better known teenage sister, Hilary, as the spoilt Bel Air daughters of a recently deceased cosmetics tycoon.
Mediaite is more sceptical, arguing that the substance, PETN, has a "dismal record" as "the star of the show" because it's normally used as a detonator, not the primary explosive.
The first major film adaptation was Roger Vadim's dismal offering of 1959, starring Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe.
