Sentence examples similar to dismal- from inspiring English sources

(So-called femidoms, inserted by the woman, have been a dismal failure).

He declared himself delighted with his preparations, and this performance was a vast improvement on his dismal defeat by Lleyton Hewitt at Queen's last week.

Fabio Capello believes the World Cup owes England a debt of gratitude for the gift of goalline technology and has said only Fifa had to change, not himself, after his team's dismal exit from the 2010 finals.

I mean properly foreign, unlike Martin O'Neill and Tony Pulis, for example, whose sides are allowed to serve comparatively dismal week in and week out without their managers ever being subjected to any kind of media scrutiny that invariably prompts fans to get their radge on.

There were dismal scenes at The Oval on Friday night as plastic glasses and bottles were thrown from the OCS Stand at stewards protecting the outfield at the end of the match.

Partly because Pardew's Newcastle were past masters at embarking on dismal runs themselves.

Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper's poor lead-in.

The other highlight was the dismal performance of Nigel Farage.

Fine Gael's chairman Charlie Flanagan said it was a "pretty dismal precedent" that a member of the Dail would admit to knowingly filing inaccurate returns, which Wallace in his defence insists was only done to save his company from insolvency and rescue the jobs of his workers.

That is pretty much in line with his party's dismal polling.

And just because it's "about nothing" doesn't mean it's worth nothing, like nearly every other equivalently-budgeted Hollywood product of this dismal year.