Jack Hemingway

At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good living after years of dismal failure. I think he would be delighted to know that I've stuck to one thing and have done it well.

Rajpal Yadav

My elder brother wants to build a girls' college in Shahjanpur in U.P. We don't have good education system and the security for girls in school and colleges in our village is dismal. So I am going to fully support my brother in whatever he is doing.

Indian Actor

Merce Cunningham

All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.

American Dancer

Cameron Russell

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

American Model

Henry Van Dyke

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

American Poet

Rush Limbaugh

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

American Entertainer

Burn Gorman

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

English Actor

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

American Author

Richard Cordray

Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.

American Lawyer

Dick Cavett

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Use 'dismal' to emphasize the severity of emotional situations.

Emotional Weight

'Dismal' describes more than weather; it can relate to anything sad.

Not Just Weather

'Dismal' implies a deep, often lingering unhappiness.

Intensity of Sadness

Use 'dismal' to stress poor quality or performance in various contexts.

Quality Assessment

'Dismal' can reflect the disappointment between expectations and reality.

Expectation vs Reality

'Dismal' subtly conveys a sense of failure or incompetence.

Subtle Negativity

In literature, 'dismal' noun form often personifies sadness.

Literary Sadness

'Dismal' as a noun evokes a profound sense of woe or despair.

Beyond Gloom

When used as a noun, 'dismal' is uncommon and considered old-fashioned.

Archaic Usage

 increases exponentially species are destined to crash it's a very dismal view of the world it really is a survival of the fittest view of the world and in wards eyes humans and I think special we are simply the continuation of the great destructive capacity of the planet and that within a

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 I'm a computational cognitive scientist. I spend my time trying to understand how it is that human minds work, from our amazing successes to our dismal failures. To do that, I think about the computational structure of the problems that arise in everyday life,

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 End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career. I know some of you have already decided you want a good career. You're going to fail, too. Because -- goodness, you're all cheery about failing.

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 to be talking about this but I'll give it my best shot we've heard from experts over the past two days the huge strides that Africa has made in these efforts to connect to the rest of the world despite its dismal performance in comparison to

Paving the way towards...

 are optimistic about their country's future. Now, if this is not legitimacy, I'm not sure what is. In contrast, most electoral democracies around the world are suffering from dismal performance. I don't need to elaborate for this audience

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 well sometimes you get it completely right and all the times you fail dismal and this is definitely a fighter we didn't get enough rain in the night obviously to turn this rocky cascade into a float deep enough to an hour the

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 Princeton and yet you go down to downtown Kingston and you are looking at one of the most depressing sites that you can see in any middle-income country in the world a dismal depressing landscape of burnt and half abandoned

Why democracy matters -...

 their data on the people that have died from different diseases the World Health Organization the information that goes there about rabies and numbers are dismal fear of them making it look like drevis is not a big disease

Misconceptions about...

 Now, none of these mistakes that I've described, as dismal as they might sound, are inevitable. In fact, they're all avoidable. What we need to make better decisions about the future are tools that can aid our foresight,

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 that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal. In the last two years, two of the world's most consolidated,

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