Sentence examples for dismal tasks from inspiring English sources

The office was in a windowless, fluorescent-lit room, and, like a remnant of Soviet bureaucracy, it was filled with cardboard boxes and with clerks who were consumed with distinct, but equally dismal, tasks.

Now, it may be that individual forecasters have compiled such a dismal track record because the task they're asked to perform is at its core, impossible.

A newly reinvigorated Marco Rubio took Donald Trump to task on Trump's dismal business record at the Super Tuesday Republican debate.

Mr. Paterson's task of rebounding from his dismal standing in the polls — which show him at historic lows — and convincing his party that he can overcome the White House's lack of confidence will be difficult.

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.

Captain Alastair Cook faces a huge task resurrecting a "stale" England after a dismal winter, says former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith.

The task of injecting Broadway pizazz into numbers from "The Frank Sinatra Show," which was broadcast on ABC, to dismal reviews and ratings, in 1957 and 1958, fell to a team of visual effects, sound and projection technicians.

Finding someone with a good word to say about practitioners of the dismal science is a tough task even when you ask an economist himself.

Dismal streets, dismal lives.

This dismal performance left dismal scientists feeling appropriately dismal.

"It's dismal, very dismal".