Word: dismalness
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...whole the offense has many questions to answer after its dismal performance against Holy Cross...
...more turnovers spoiled any hope of a comeback, and the loss put a damper on the Green's hopes of bettering last year's dismal 2-8 season...
People would vote more if they were made to vote less. In countries where voting happens only once every few years voter turnout is far more impressive than our dismal returns. In Britain, where voters face major elections only once every five or six years and have no primaries, turnout in the 1997 general election was a whopping 71.5 percent, according to The Guardian...
...order to supplement the dismal number of Core classes offered the Standing Committee on the Core Program should broaden the selection of departmental courses that can be taken for Core credit. Because they allow students the opportunity to take many departmental courses for credit the Science and QRR categories of the Core continue to be the most flexible in their provision of choice for students. Unfortunately, there are still no departmental courses offered which satisfy any of the Literature and Arts, Social Analysis or Historical Study A requirements...
...This dismal, Serbian-style solipsism was actually meant as self-praise. But on some levels it is, alas, true. One sees it, for instance, in the bristling posture of denial that the Australian government recently took against U.N. criticism of its flouting of the human rights of Aborigines. Australians still tend to be worried about what "outsiders" think, keep asking and then get furious if the answer is even fractionally less than flattering...