Word: dismalness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been less than a decade since Columbus's first feature film--Reckless, which he wrote in college. Inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, the movie "celebrated escape," Columbus says. It was a dismal failure: the film company "took the script away from me and added 20 minutes of sex. The film was originally rated X. It was just a mess...
...Reagan's dismal (and revealing) round one performance was disturbing, the case with which he regained his good standing was nothing less than horrifying. Despite an otherwise mediocre performance riddled with factual errors and lesser mental lapses, the president redeemed himself with a single one-liner in the second debate...
Harvard (3-2 overall, 1-1 Ivy) shot a dismal 29 percent from the field for the game, making only 18 of 63 attempts...
...last day she could withdraw from her math course, and the sophomore was distraught by the prospect of a dismal grade...
Despite these dismal figures, Clifton Wharton Jr., chancellor of the / sprawling State University of New York (SUNY), remained skeptical when his faculty complained that good nonwhite teachers were difficult to find. Then he discovered that of some 1,000 Ph.D.s earned by blacks, more than 600 were in education but only 29 were in the physical sciences, six in math and one in computer science. Given such sparse credentials, faculty jobs for blacks have been extremely hard to come by. At Stanford, for example, a mere 45 of the university's 1,294 faculty members are black or Hispanic. Among...