All this failure makes for a fairly dismal picture.

Never mind the experiments they endure, their standard living conditions are fairly dismal: plastic cages with bedding and a water bottle and nothing else to stimulate them.

As a 35-year-old, that is a fairly dismal prospect.

It was a fairly dismal evening and the worst of it was that I couldn't say so.

That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect.

We know that success rates for cross-border acquisitions are fairly dismal.

The picture we paint is a fairly dismal one of a system that is largely out of control.

Undeterred by the fairly dismal record amassed by their Hollywood predecessors, a herd of film directors and producers is heading full speed for the vast wasteland.

Prior to the mid-1960s, advanced-stage Hodgkin disease was treated with single-agent chemotherapy, with fairly dismal long-term survival and cure rates.

Ireland's situation as regards Kyoto targets is, to be honest, fairly dismal.