It's no accident that current studies present such a dismal picture of mutual fund performance.

"For Hartford, it is as dismal a picture that could be imagined."

He shook his head, pushing the dismal mental picture away.

They paint a dismal picture for patients suffering from chronic pain.

Many officers, who refused to give their names, painted a dismal picture of life inside the 1,600-bed jail.

And the overall quality of child care, the researchers observed, was better than the usually dismal picture revealed by several recent studies.

There have been bright spots in this generally dismal picture.

So dismal a picture can scarcely be looked at.

But this does not support your bleak and dismal picture.

This helped to paint a dismal picture of the plane's maintenance records.