They hint at the sense of the sometimes dreadful office of President, as when Whitman looked at Lincoln upon attending his second inauguration and saw him "drest all in black, with white kid gloves and a claw-hammer coat, receiving, as in duty bound, shaking hands, looking very disconsolate, and as if he would give anything to be somewhere else".
DOUBTS have persisted about Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, who reversed a humiliatingly dreadful first term in office in 2006-07 with a stunning return to power in 2012 a comeback often credited to the backing of abler and tougher political allies together with an unusual run of good luck.
We played New Zealand at Esher and I had a bad day at the office, really dreadful.
Mr. Miller said he had asked Mr. Graves how he was going to make "this dreadful building" -- the office building -- into something interesting.
David Florence became the latest in an increasingly long line of genuine British medal hopefuls to endure a dreadful day at the office, finishing dead last in the final of the canoe slalom and missing out on victory by a titanic margin of more than 14 seconds.
The coach's authority was publicly undermined by the front office, and a dreadful season ensued.
Montgomery, 56, is far from alone, despite the team's recent years of dreadful performances, its dysfunctional front office and a further distancing from its stay in Los Angeles.
And whether any of the aforementioned – or Jim Leighton – ever had as dreadful a day at the office as Alex Stepney did at St Andrew's in 1975 is a moot point.
Instead, it is time to unite as a party – the membership and the elected representatives alike – and together take our fight into the only contest that matters: getting this dreadful Tory government out of office, and punishing them for the mess into which they have plunged our country.
This fairly tall but certainly dark and handsome north London son of a carpenter found real fame, however, on television as the detective Sexton Blake, "prince of the penny dreadfuls" and seen as the office boys' Sherlock Holmes, on ITV between 1967 and 1971.
Dilma's supporters are intent on saying that once Temer takes office, Brazil will enter a dreadful and dark period.
