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The quick intervention in the supply of farm inputs by Government after the dismal performance by the private sector has saved the situation.
The future looked dismal due to the lack of spare tires and a dwindling oxygen supply.
In the midst of all the dismal circumambience we still can have hope and can afford to smile.
He struggled through a dismal start after losing his hot young passer in an exhibition game.
The terrain varied from dismal rows of dunes to baked claypan, rock-tiled wasteland to savage, waterless mountains.
Almost every decade some dismal group of self-proclaimed patriots mobilises to repel a new invasion or subversive threat.
For those with decadent dreams and a dismal credit rating, the following advice will warm the cockles of your heart.
Corruption takes root when donors expect failure and recipients know that dismal performance will bring no adverse consequences.
The folderol that followed was rather dismal, with angry conservative politicians threatening to reform the judiciary.
Thus, when one side was bathed in light and warmth, the other would be a cold, dismal place shrouded in darkness.
Luke is the oldest and the least important employee of a dismal company that imports cloth.
Those bright patches of colour certainly stand out from the dismal grounds of the estate.
What can one say about this dismal situation in an editorial or a commentary?
The Web was a dismal place for ingesting information because it was visually bereft, difficult to move around in, and generally unpleasant.
The police have a success rate in interdicting the flow of arms that is even more dismal than the recent record of the West Indies cricket team.
And they are anxious about dismal public transport, dirty public conveniences, rip-off days out and restaurants that are anti-children.
As glorious Tramore yet again defied the dismal weather forecasts the fans flocked to the seaside venue.
He shoots the boardroom scenes in dismal office-grade lighting, showing every crease and crinkle on the stressed faces within the room.
We got back a week ago quite dismal at having to leave Italy, and are slowly getting used to the frowsiness of our glorious country.
A dismal week for Wales brought down the curtain on the era of that great player, but who will replace him?
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was this way of looking at things that gave to political economy the name of the dismal science.
But even he who has read only thus far must know that political economy is no cold-blooded or dismal science, as people say.
The storm cloud of dissension still hung threateningly, and the future looked black and dismal.
They assembled themselves together of set purpose to be lively, and they were infectiously dismal.
My first night in this dismal and strangely ordered house had opened anything but propitiously.
Men buy and sell their millions, subsidize states, and raise loans in dens dark and dismal enough to be prison-cells.
If Bellerophon had been told truly, it was in one of those dismal valleys that the hideous chimaera had taken up its abode.
These dismal shells, when they burst in the air, were like the fireworks at a fte.
To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill!
The inflow of white blood was small, and much of what did come lost itself in the dismal swamp of miscegenation.
The katydid has ceased again her dismal song, and long since the cat slunk away behind the grape-trellis to seek new fields.
Some of the most dismal quarters of the town are colonised by her disciples and professors.
He wished Home might always wear such a dismal veil of dampness, scirocco, and cloud.
His business was to wale dismal, and bow his head down, the band playin slow and melancholly moosic.
Thus we learned the dismal place to which your noble daughter had been so perfidiously ensnared.
Pedro obeyed, but shortly after returned with a most dismal and elongated visage.
Many a dismal and unhappy tale might be wrought out of its other adventures.
The trees were scraggy, loppy old things hanging down in dismal sweep over the leaky roof and damp walls.
It was then, for much of its distance, rather a dismal stream, sluggishly winding through marshes lined with alders.
Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.
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