The scene, however dismal, was always enacted alone.

Exhaustion was creeping in to the already dismal scene as the need to sleep pulled at the frayed edges of my consciousness.

"Winter's dark was finally banished from the dismal scene" is a typical curlicue.

Warm memories stood aside for cold reality, however, as Bolan surveyed the now dismal scene.

"It was kind of a dismal scene," said Michael Iovenko, the society's president.

They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult.

I looked about me and saw as truly dismal a scene as I had ever traveled through.

My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

So Reith told himself, and tried to put the dismal scene out of his mind.

It was a dismal scene that little gleam illumined.