Sentence examples for dismal things from inspiring English sources

Might such dismal things still happen in our happily enlightened age?

But no matter how dismal things are, there's no excuse for rude behavior.

"We felt such relief when we saw where he had moved to," Egerton says, gloomily reflecting on how dismal things are generally for such a miserable outcome to have triggered so much happiness.

A quick review of the Bill of Rights shows how dismal things have become.

I knew that I could never be the prettiest, or the sexiest, girl in the room, so I decided I could be the most terrifyingly hip by purporting to enjoy and endure dirty, dismal things.

For however good it is that the sans-culottes are everywhere in today's versions of Alexandra Palace and Printing House Square, it would be a dismal thing indeed if they were the only occupants.

Even the Daily Mail, middle England's favourite, is now losing readers for the first time in ten years.Behind these dismal figures, however, things look even worse.

Their record at all of these things is dismal.

But things are dismal enough without headline writers coming along to make them seem even worse.

"When I see things are dismal, I feel compelled to make things better," she said.

Translated into the realm of art, of a humanity that likes to consider itself civilised, these things become dismal indeed.