| Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors. |
| Perhaps it's a good thing Hook New Town was never built, though: its closest relative, Cumbernauld in Scotland, has since become a laughing stock famed for the dismalness of its very own concrete town centre. |
| 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? |
| On the contrary, we may wonder if Iñárritu and his editor didn't scissor the movie into fragments in order to give soap-opera dismalness the appearance of radical art. |
| Before that persistent low-spirit sensation totally takes over, here are a few ideas to put up a barricade against the dismalness. |
| The problem for them, of course, is image and the built-in dismalness of their names. |
