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Example sentences for: dismal

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Professor Paul Krugman ("The Dismal Scientist") has done me the honor of another attack, this time for an alleged vulgarization of the great British economist John Maynard Keynes.
The dismal spin: Poor law enforcement is what allowed these crimes to happen in the first place.
In Kipling's The Light That Failed (Chapter XIII), Torpenhow urges Dick to attend a party that night, “We shall be half screwed before the morning,” is his dismal sales pitch to Dick.
Maybe it's the dismal science rather than dismal writing, but from the Times coverage, it's a bit hard to follow the logic of Brazil's move.
The Monday night scene is equally dismal (unless you happen to care who's shagging whom on Melrose).