Word: dismalness
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...More dismal is the picture on independent stations, which typically offer a horde of look-alike syndicated cartoons in the before- and after-school hours on weekdays. Though the networks continue to adhere to pre-1984 limits of twelve ad minutes an hour on weekdays, 9 1/2 minutes on weekends, a recent study of eight big-city independent stations revealed that all but one were exceeding the old limit during weekday children's programming...
...these residences exist. Funding is scarce and so is staffing. Worse yet, neighborhoods refuse to accept the residents of these homes as neighbors. Zoning laws on non-family cohabitation often bar them from setting up in nice residential areas, shunting them off to dismal commercial zones...
Voters in the "Granite State" are hardly solid and their eclectic decisions can often determine the future of the presidential race. In 1984 Sen. Gary Hart (D.-Col.) campaigned heavily in N.H. and went from a dismal performance in the lowa caucus a week earlier to win the nation's first primary and become a leading Democratic candidate...
...scene in the palace is dismal. Within the courtyard, acres of wisteria blooms seem lacklustre and inanimate. Even the thick gold pavement on the garden path seems to have lost its sheen. The heads of traitorous peasants bob wearily on poorly-maintained pikes. Entering the main hall, I find the prince sprawled, seemingly in despair, on top of a large pile of wrinkled and soiled currency...
...Harvard, the self-proclaimed bastion of freedom and intellectual cultivation, the percentage of undergraduates registered to vote in Cambridge is quite dismal. Although large numbers of students no doubt are registered in their home communities, the smallness of the percentage registered to vote here is surprising...