Word: dismal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, sitting up in his bed, he read to them a statement in which he categorically proved that the opposition newspapers had either exaggerated the importance of Communist activities or had fabricated reports to cause panic among the people. He drew a long and dismal picture of the disastrous effects which such scare news was causing: withdrawal of money from banks, runs on provision stores, expatriation of capital...
...words, he heard the dwindling strophe of the heart's small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street. He sat down to write his tone-poem, Francesco da Rimini. Down in Hell's gilded street, the phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love's delight, Paolo and Francesca embrace in pangs and torment. But Tschaikowsky believed that he had lived his best years; his hand...
Manhattan's East Side ghetto lay dank and dismal beneath a late autumn drizzle. In one narrow street, before a certain house, thousands of Jews milled about on the wet flagging and cobblestones, packing the whole block with their numbers. Grief was on their faces and in the low wailing that some set up as they waited. In the middle of the block stood a hearse...
Lord Bryce, whose dismal prophesies concerning the abilities of American public men have long been accepted with humility, may yet be refuted. The upper hierarchy of officials and representatives begins to shine with intellectual distinction of a sort a condition which would hardly have been tolerated by the electorate of Jackson's time. Strange as this state may be to those who feel that the government must reflect the stupidity as well as the wishes of the masses, it would be more alarming if the extraordinary diffusion of higher education among the prosperous classes in America were not soon reflected...
...weather forecast for today holds forth the dismal prospect of rain to the 80.000 people who will throng the Bowl at New Haven this afternoon...