Sentence examples for dismal that from inspiring English sources

A visit to Oreokastro, a camp on the other side of Thessaloniki, hints at how dismal that would be.

But the food that goes with them is often dismal: that must be bought out of current income, which is usually earmarked already for everything from maintaining ancient buildings to supplementing salaries.Yet Oxford and Cambridge are still in relatively good shape, thanks largely to their structure of self-governing, self-financing colleges.

But the standards of the past are so dismal that this is not saying much.

His situation is so dismal that he's beyond fulminating about it, so he sets to work.

The outcome was so dismal that it may not secure formal recognition as an opposition party.

The team had become so dismal that fans had begged the owner to change its mascot, an oversized black cat.

This is equally true of the British Army, though the British military record in Basra and Helmand was even more dismal than that of the Americans.

That logic falters when you factor in his term as governor, a dismal performance that ended abruptly when he resigned in a prostitution scandal.

Reading these responses one might imagine that Unicef had identified the same desperate and dismal findings that so shocked Britain when they reported in 2007.

We'd always been pretty convinced that most cinematic attempts to put nightclubs on screen were dismal failures, that's until we stumbled across Hell's Club.

How dismal all that sounds today.