| We knew we were in for a lashing from the press because to lose to the USA made us the laughing stocks of the game and really it was dismal. |
| Recalling that dismal time, Iris stared at the crystal stem of her wine glass. |
| It was an inappropriate appointment, in that it was clearly a dismal waste of his extravagant talents. |
| Usually he'd put a smile on his face during a meeting like this, but instead he wore a very dismal expression. |
| Thompson, who has a badly bruised foot and limped from the dismal fray early in the second-half on Tuesday, could be out for two weeks. |
| It was a dismal campaign characterised by public apathy and political evasiveness. |
