Those of us who remember when each league had eight teams recall how dreadful life was for those clubs in the "second division" during the second half of the season.
What makes the Royals narrative all the more extraordinary is just how dreadful the club was for a quarter century.
Come up with amusing metaphors for how dreadful, tiring, cheap, etc., the date situation is turning out to be (focus on finding the humor in the situation, rather than at the expense of your fellow human being).
The result was "Kristin," a sitcom that NBC scuttled before more than a handful of viewers got to see for themselves how dreadful it was.
Scientist Alistair Hay, 57, professor of environmental toxicology at Leeds University 'You can't help but feel how dreadful it must have been for the soldiers.
As 2008 winds down, giving us a time to reflect on just how dreadful the past 12 months have been for everyone except Nate Silver, what better time to highlight the Top 10 Douchebags of 2008?
The problem (aside from imagining how dreadful it must have been for BusinessWeek staffers to work on an issue whose cover line could've easily been "Don't Worry, Be Happy" as their magazine languished on the auction block) is that it really doesn't make a case for optimism at all.
In Northern Ireland, for instance, you'll have preachers saying how dreadful all this is".
In a 1971 essay describing her passion for philately, Rand reflected that "no matter how dreadful some of mankind's activities might be, here is a field in which men are functioning reasonably, efficiently and successfully".
