Yet the city government used to making big decisions without telling the public has met stiff resistance.Although it may be a dismal thought for the guidebook's authors who conclude that "the polar bears must pin all their hopes on graduating from their concrete hell to the marvellous Beijing Aquarium"—the zoo is nonetheless hugely popular among visitors from around the country.
The former doesn't come close to expressing the long list of symptoms that apply (insomnia, anxiety, dismal mood, panic, thoughts of suicide, loss of energy/weight/joy/libido/love).
Much like the waterfall through whose roar Sadie, the doomed spinster in Camp Cataract (1949), believes she can hear "someone pronounce her name in a dismal tone", the febrile thoughts of her characters seem to be suspended above yawning depths.
My thoughts turn dismal and morbid.
While I'm quick to discount netbooks as hallow attempts to bilk you good people out of your money, thereby shoring up these companies' bottom lines in otherwise dismal economic times, the thought of a $200 almost-laptop is pretty impressive.
Let me leave you with this thought: However dismal and overwhelmed you feel--that's how much potential there is within you for a wonderful life.
Thoughts of the dismal ending against Cleveland, he said, had long ago faded.
Having presided over its break up, Mr Cameron might well find his party showing him the door.The second thought is how dismal this news item is.
Beyond the pleasure of hearing his thoughts, there is a dismal fascination in watching his instant response to events, and then realising that so many of his sensible proposals got nowhere.
This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal.
