His experiences of filmmaking in Britain have been too often dismal – with glorious exceptions.
They are dismal with a vengeance, an encyclopedia of wrack, ruin, and squalor, wanly bleached by flash illumination.
But its poverty and hunger indexes remain dismal, with roughly 42 percent of all Indian children under the age of 5 being underweight.
Attendances, except on Saturday, were dismal, with television cameras showing banks of empty seats and what few spectators there were huddled under blankets.
The ratings results for the Series games this year have been mostly dismal, with the latest evidence being the games played on Sunday and Monday nights.
Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian black-metal band: black as in dark and dismal, with haunted-house keyboard arpeggios and vocals rendered in an electronically processed monster growl.
The batting and bowling have looked callow and at times witless, while the fielding has been dismal, with three more catches dropped here.
Lambert signed a new four-year deal on 17 September but since then their record has been worse than dismal with only two victories from 21 matches.
Aside from "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" in 2011, Mr. Bruckheimer's track record of late has been dismal, with duds including "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".
Diversity in the tech industry is dismal, with white men making up the vast majority of its workforce.
India's contribution to cardiovascular research has been dismal with a share of only 1% of total number of papers published in the world during the period 1999 2008.
