The rest say that approach has been a dismal failure.

She thought I would be a dismal failure as teacher of a boys' class.

If we had been a dismal failure, you might think about it.

In some cases, the evidence suggests, a negative campaign can be a dismal failure.

His attempt at putting theory into practice was a dismal failure, however.

"There have been some plants in the past that were dismal failures," he said.

She called the boards of the last 15 years "dismal failures."

Perhaps because his life had been such a dismal failure, he wanted only to die with more courage than he'd lived.

But, anyway, that was all in the past, because our experiments had been a dismal failure.

Unfortunately, the new format quickly turned out to be a dismal failure.

The rising was a dismal failure and collapsed by the end of the year.

But, he said, his academic experiment turned out to be a "dismal failure."

The Bush presidency has been a dismal failure in this regard.

But nearly 30 years later, it is clear that bilingual education has been a dismal failure.

As a restaurateur, she would have been a dismal failure.

It was a dismal failure, running for a mere 39 performances.

If it is a complete dismal failure in a few years from now, then I'll happily agree.

We have an opportunity today to make a difference and to change the direction of a policy that everyone agrees has been a dismal failure.

At night, he came home to his wife, Jane, a bitter woman who considered him a dismal failure.

Their assault, launched in late June, was a dismal failure.

Her first attempt at preparing a meal is a dismal failure.

"But her record speaks for itself - it is one of dismal failure.

I am not often a dismal failure when I make up my mind to do a thing.

Her first attempts to access its power purely by force of will had been a dismal failure.

The attempt was a dismal failure, and the products disappeared from stores only a few months later.