- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dismal Quotes
From a rainy day at Westminster Abbey to a dismal economy.
These quotes use 'dismal' for everything from literal gray weather on a visit to Westminster Abbey to a struggling economy and the frustration it breeds. One also points to a regulatory report explaining why dismal taxi service persisted for decades. Explore more in Age quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.
- Cop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.
- Pollution
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- Nov 07, 2020
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Trump has tapped into the frustrations of many Americans who feel the effects of a dismal economy and believe the political system is rigged and owned by the establishment.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.
- Gloomy
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020