Word: dismalness
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...Israel and the Palestinian territories is bad, and it is unlikely to improve in the near future. Or so the international media would have us believe. After all, as the axiom goes, bad news makes good copy. While the tragic events of recent months have fully justified such dismal assessments, they have hardly substantiated the media's consistently-and grossly-distorted portrayal of the conflict. Inflammatory headlines, manipulated photographs and utterly unprofessional articles tell a tale of the righteous outrage of the Palestinian masses, long oppressed at Israel's bloody hands, whose innocent children are now slaughtered by the dozens...
...After a dismal Opening Day, things couldn’t have looked more bleak for the Boston Red Sox. After the team suffered several crippling injuries in spring training and then lost to the lowly Baltimore Orioles with the incomparable Pedro Martinez on the mound, many fans were on the verge of writing off the Sox for this year...
...seemed worthwhile. Nothing seemed fun. Every book was torturously slow. Every song was criminally banal. The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world became a fluorescent-lighted, decolorized, saltpetered version of the planet I had known before. And my own prospects? Absolutely dismal. I would sit in that one-bedroom Nishi Azabu apartment and consider the sorry career I had embarked upon, these losers I associated with compounding the very long odds that I would ever amount to anything...
...prefab pop does enter a bear market, Bands on the Run could prove truly forward-looking, with its low-tier musicians cadging pocket change from strangers. In the series' second episode, the Josh Dodes Band plays a dismal gig at a Chicago Hard Rock Cafe, asking the indifferent crowd to pop by its concert later in the week and help it win a TV game show. "It's all based around money," lead singer Dodes explains. Self-consciously, he grins. "And what the hell isn't?" For a moment, the phrase reality TV seems just about right...
...released Monday and co-authored by professors at the University of Nebraska and Wichita State University, is a ringing indictment of almost every major airline. While there were a few pleasant surprises, including Alaska, Southwest and Delta Airlines' relatively strong showings, for the most part the picture is pretty dismal. "The airlines promised two years ago to clean things up, and they just haven't," says Richard Gritta, professor of finance at the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland in Oregon...