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Simple sentences
The outlook for the defense program is dismal.
The prospects for Japan's future look dismal.
The rain made the autumn day dismal.
That doctrine will no doubt lead to dismal consequences.
Movie subtitles
I'm sure you'll have a very dismal wedding.
Oh, it'll be a relief to see light in those dismal old windows.
First a roundup of brigands - that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiering. the last would-be conquerors.
Why did old man Norman want to live in this dismal place?
You'll always represent what's most dismal and most alien in life.
Having you in my family is a pretty dismal prospect.
Dismal sound, ain't it, Herbert?
Why do you bring me to this dark and dismal place?
I don't think I've ever tried so hard to be gay and made such a dismal mess of it.
I would not spend another such a night. though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. so full of dismal terror was the time.
It's movingly dismal.
But crowning you, we hoped you won't forget the dismal fate of your forbears.
It is nice and dismal, isn't it?
They saw a barren-looking island, flanked, like life's ramparts, by the contours of a horribly steep and dismal bluff.
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek. And my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't.
And, incidentally, my political career. Seems to have come to a rather, uh, dismal end.
What a dismal bore you are, Anquetin.
D for dull and for depressing, dismal and deadly!
Keeping to the theme of tonight's program, I must warn you that before you get a look at the pleasant scenery, we must first pass through one of those dismal tunnels.
Anniversaries are so dismal, especially one particular anniversary.
This may look to you like any dismal, dark and dingy alley that lies skulking off a million myriad shadow-places off the main drags.
You dismal bird! You and your submarine!
Your tricks are so bloomin' dismal.
My fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in it.
How bravely he overcame the dismal handicaps of his parentage.
Yet, this is the dismal case. of every soul in this congregation who has not been born again. however moral or strict, sober and religious you may otherwise be.
Before she embarks on such a dismal voyage in some old Argelouse house, I've given Anne some illusions. To save her from losing hope.
Norway, in terrible numbers assisted by this traitor, the Thane of Cawdor began a dismal conflict till Bellona's bridegroom, Macbeth confronts the king arm against arm, curbing his lavish spirit.
Now he was burdened with the harassing cares and responsibilities which are the dismal adjuncts of great rank and property.
Life presents a dismal picture, you might say.
If we start with our present atmosphere the experiment is a dismal failure.
What a dismal?
My life as a human being has been a dismal failure.
News and current affairs
But this is not the first time that physicists and mathematicians have looked to biology for new fields to plow, and the history of such efforts has been fairly dismal.
These distortions, not any shortcomings of the single currency, account for the euro area's dismal economic performance.
The future of the West Bank is equally dismal.
They voted for Kuchma not because they approve of his policies -- his administration's economic record is dismal -- but because they did not want to see a return of communism.
In these terms, the American economy's performance is likely to remain dismal.
The country has done its best to live down it dismal past.
Ukraine's industries need to modernize, not become more addicted to cheap gas, and gas transit will become almost as monopolistic as gas supply - a dismal prospect, given past cut-offs of gas supplies between Russia and Europe.
It would be unfair, however, to blame the Berlusconi government alone for this dismal performance.
Consider a few dismal statistics reflecting the current state of affairs.
Instead, it condemns Central America to carry its dismal past far into the future.
Even within cities, poor areas are so disconnected and inadequately endowed that productivity is dismal.
The dismal image that Europe projects to the world nowadays does no justice to reality.
Blinded by ideology, however, the Bush administration seems determined to continue its record of dismal failures by ignoring past experience.
Social indicators, such as life expectancy, mirrored the dismal GDP numbers.
Indeed, the extravagance of these conferences seems to grow, rather than shrink, as their dismal results become more apparent.
The dismal failure of Middle Eastern and North African economies to deliver the prosperity that their people desperately want is a constant factor pushing people into the streets.
Most of the rest languish in conditions that offer generally dismal prospects.
Consider a few dismal statistics reflecting the current state of affairs. Real (inflation-adjusted) median household income in the US is about the same as in 1979.
A dismal silence greeted its publication, which left Germany's pro-European establishment isolated and dispirited.
It was those conflicts, rather than some technical flaw in the operation of the economy, which made the Great Depression of the 1930's such a dismal and destructive event.
Moreover, there is nothing to indicate that the government aid proposed in the budget will reach those who need it with any more efficiency than the dismal record so far.