dismal picture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdismalandpicture
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dismal
adjective
uk/ˈdɪz.məl/us/ˈdɪz.məl/
sad and ...
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picture
noun
uk/ˈpɪk.tʃər/us/ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
a drawing, painting, ...
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Thatdismalpicturehas been ameliorated slightly by one undeniable success story—the youth opportunities programme.
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If we examine the performance of structural adjustment loans, a similardismalpictureemerges.
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I hope that what we have put on record this morning is not adismalpicture.
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To me that is a verydismalpicture.
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That is thedismalpicture—old buildings, low wages, over-dependence on a single industry and towns geographically slightly off the main stream.
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In the older housing sphere there is an equallydismalpicture.
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It is adismalpictureof cuts and cancellations.
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Many of the economic indicators portray adismalpictureat present.
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Inward investors are not painting thedismalpicturethat we have just heard.
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I have taken a lot of trouble to look out some figures which do not seem to bear, out the somewhatdismalpicturehe presented.
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It is indeed adismalpicture.
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It is a gloomy anddismalpicture.
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London presents adismalpicture—it is unplanned, unco-ordinated and unpleasant.
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I am delighted to hear that in some parts of the country the same somewhatdismalpictureis not apparent—as it is in too many other areas.
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To say the least, the report paints an extremelydismalpicture, suggesting that drug use was a significant problem and that prisoners did not receive proper support and treatment.
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It is adismalpicture.
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Paragraphs 3.66 to 3.70 give adismalpictureof the inadequacies to be found in this area of prison life, inadequacies of which most people are quite unaware.
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The reporter was unable to find out classified information, and instead invented maintenance records of the fleet that painted adismalpicture.
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Sectoral analysis again exhibits adismalpicture.
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I hope we shall have an end of this painting of dismal pictures.
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