He stared ahead, across the dismal landscape, considering how best to recover his losses.

Finding acceptable local raw materials has entailed a year-long hunt through the dismal and sometimes stomach-turning landscape of the Soviet food industry.

She not only provides vivid imagery of the dismal landscape, but imagery of the struggling working class as well.

Over all the dismal landscape a canopy of low, lead-coloured clouds hung like a visible curse.

Frost had already whitened the dismal landscape as far as they could see.

Wading up the beach, Ern looked far and wide across a dismal landscape supporting only tatters of brown lichen.

A few seconds later they were through the cloud, and all that dismal landscape vanished beneath them, not a second too late for Gabriel.

Hanna Vravska, who works in the new town hall, said she cannot get used to the dismal landscape, the housing blocks, the feeling of suffocation.

In fact it has long been a home to drug dealers and a blot on an already dismal landscape.

The girl, clearly unconvinced, wiped her eyes and stood looking out across the dismal landscape.