Word: dismalness
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...evaluating the reasons why physicists are pursuing business careers, employment seems to be a strong motivating factor. "Right now the job market in physics itself is pretty dismal, especially with the recent cut of the SSC. It really decimates one branch of physics," says Bass. The SSC, the Superconducting Supercollider, was an $11 billion particle accelerator in Texas whose funding was cut by Congress in October...
...this storyline carrying your average "entertainment venture" with quick scenes, bright colors, beautiful people, an inspirational soundtrack, and a cartoonish treatment of violence. Instead, Tarantino locates about three fourths of his film in a huge, dismal, echo-y warehose. There, ugly guys scream at each other for so long and with such intensity that we feel like we're at a play. The lack of background noise (no violins or "Jaws" sounds to screw with our feelings) is broken up only by a few funky songs from a "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show. And the violence...
Engler and the votes of Michigan have taken a large step in remedying the age-old problem that many poor children are doomed to a dismal education simply becaue of the lack of equity in their parents' abodes. The plan isn't perfect, but it provides a workable model for other states dedicated to the future of their children...
...consist of nothing but cliche albeit abusive diatribes from one spouse to another. One gets the sense that the film being made is going straight-to-video. Consequently, we are hardly interested in witnessing its production let alone the repetitive takes of boring scenes. The script, too, is dismal. When not rummaging through his chest of platitudes and overused analogies, writer Nicholas St. John creates his own Iudicrous dialogue. In a drunken rage, Burn's husband-from-hell course, of all things, "Consumerism!" One cannot forget, as well, the inexplicably crass run of tampon metaphors...
...have adopted the look of 1970s progressives, but our attitude toward today's politics bears little resemblance tot he idealism that characterizes progressives. After the 1992 presidential campaign, "Change" is a cliche, not a goal. Our voting rates are dismal, an our activism--our activism...