The lighting for the Act II vision scene is dismal, and the staging won't allow any artist to give much poetry or internal contrast to Kitri.
Amid these dismal statistics, the report sets out a vision for a "new textiles economy" in which the lifespan of clothes is longer, they're produced with fewer chemicals, and renting, reselling and reuse become the norm.
Some see Kerry's vision as an attempt to salvage his dismal legacy and reputation, tainted by his astounding concessions to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Syria.
But with the European car industry in crisis and sales of battery powered vehicles drifting somewhere between disappointing and dismal, automakers are spending less time talking about futuristic visions.
In the early days it was the leading symbol of the new building's failed vision, and its effect on the art shown within it was dismal.
"And the results have been predictable and dismal, but he has 'transformed' us, as he likes to say, closer to his vision of a government-centered society".
In this dismal new melodrama, the accusatory gaze of Dame Judi, who could probably ice up Superman's heat vision with that chilblain stare, is slowly lost.
In this dismal new melodrama, the accusatory gaze of Dame Judi, who could probably ice up Superman's heat vision, is slowly lost.
Trapped in a dismal existence, Aaron clings to fragments of beauty: the "gilt-edged glass" of Omar's Perfume Emporium; a vision of the Virgin Mary in the dark glass doors of the luxury Imperial Hotel.
