| Before that persistent low-spirit sensation totally takes over, here are a few ideas to put up a barricade against the dismalness. |
| More and more do I feel the bleak cold threadbare dismalness of England after the war, struck by the great flu epidemic, short of food and warmth. |
| Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors. |
| When confronted with an empty tomb in our lives, do we look at the hopefulness of the situation or do we look at the dismalness of the situation? |
| The problem for them, of course, is image and the built-in dismalness of their names. |
| To wait fruitfully is not to dream away the now, to brood about its dismalness, to protest its unacceptability, all the hallmarks of being bored. |
