One wanted to help the sales of his book, which was a dismal critical and commercial failure.

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

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

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

The rest say that approach has been a dismal failure.

He did one thing (and it was a dismal failure) on his own.

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

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

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

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