If you had to pick a vehicle to represent this age -- the way the Chevrolet Bel Air evokes the 50's or Ford's Mustang the 60's -- you would surely, sadly, go with a sport utility like the Ford Explorer or the Chevy Suburban, dismal antifashion statements of profound faddishness.
The public outcry over the invitation was as predictable as it was strident, not only because of Trump's history of racist statements and dismal civil rights record as president, but because Bryant is best known for a discriminatory "religious freedom" bill.
The goal of the stunt, she told reporters, was to make a statement about the dismal position of women.
Among participants with low self-esteem, those making the statement scored a dismal average of 10 while those that did not managed a brighter average of 17.Dr Wood suggests that positive self-statements cause negative moods in people with low self-esteem because they conflict with those people's views of themselves.
On Monday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a statement describing what it called Crane's "dismal record in the area of discrimination," and saying that he should be closely monitored.
According to its mission statement, the collective is determined to "disrupt the dismal dissemination of fashion discourse".
Morrison, who cut his personal stake in his former business to less than 1% several years ago, declined to comment on Morrisons' recent dismal performance except to say "it's all there to see in the Christmas trading statement".
Despite the dismal numbers, Nomura is "paving the way for future growth," Kenichi Watanabe, the bank's chief executive, said in a statement.
"This administration has made a calculated decision not to challenge the Chinese regime on its dismal human-rights record," the Republican chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, said in a statement after Mr. Obama's remarks.
Dismal streets, dismal lives.
