Sentence examples for dismal summer from inspiring English sources

England would love a battery of all-rounders but the only one of credibility they chose not to bring because of a dismal summer: the omission of Ben Stokes, the best batsman in Australia during the last Ashes, was a selectorial miscalculation.

The weak economy meant a dismal summer concert season, and the company was forced to cut ticket prices.

Against that backdrop, the latest unemployment figures are encouraging news for Gordon Brown after an utterly dismal summer.

It was a historic juncture that, even by England's dismal summer standards, was perfectly poised in the doldrums.

The firm's demise ends an era in British holidaying history, and book-ends a second dismal summer for the travel industry's outbound package holidays to Europe.

It was a courageous innings in what had been an otherwise dismal summer, underlining once again his character and his appetite for a scrap.

If the summer weather has been dismal this year, la rentrée – as the collective return to work is known – threatens to be a scorcher for Hollande.

"Summer of Sam, Leee's bravura re-creation of the dismal summer of 1977 — a film that Scorsese calls "excellent," and which deserved to be a commercial success — also failed to become a hit.

"The Village," reportedly budgeted at a relatively modest $60 million, represents one of the last chances by the film's backer, the Walt Disney Company, to salvage something from a dismal summer of underperforming films and its refusing to allow its Miramax Films unit to handle the hugely successful Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11".

But then came the dismal third quarter.

The American market, however, looked just as dismal three years ago.