Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

This was already noted by Chaplin's contemporaries, such as Sigmund Freud, who thought that Chaplin " always plays only himself as he was in his dismal youth ", and by some of his collaborators, such as actress Claire Bloom, who starred in Limelight.

The result was just as dismal.

However, this experiment was a dismal failure.

After a season-long series of dismal results under John Wyer in 1964, the program was handed over to Carroll Shelby after the 1964 Nassau race.

Because Sergius III had reputedly ordered the murder of his two immediate predecessors, Leo V and Christopher and was the only pope to have allegedly fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope ( John XI ), his pontificate has been described as " dismal and disgraceful ".

Clemens most explosive postseason failure came in the second inning of the final game of the 1990 ALCS against the Oakland Athletics, when he was ejected for arguing balls and strikes with umpire Terry Cooney, putting a dismal stamp on an A's sweep.

In these articles, Adorno championed avant-garde music at the same time as he critiqued the failings of musical modernity, as in the case of Stravinsky ’ s The Soldier ’ s Tale, which he called in 1923 a “ dismal Bohemian prank .” In these early writings, he was unequivocal in his condemnation of performances which either sought or pretended to achieve a transcendence which Adorno, in line with many intellectuals of the time, regarded as impossible: “ No cathedral ,” he wrote, “ can be built if no community desires one .” In the summer of 1924, Adorno received his doctorate with a study of Edmund Husserl under the direction of the unorthodox neo-Kantian Hans Cornelius.

The film was released to a dismal box office performance, barely grossing US $ 18. 5 million in the United States, and received mixed reviews from critics.

The mortality rate was high, and the dismal conditions led to more than half a dozen slave rebellions.

On a day off, they visited a bookstore where they found that the state of children's books was dismal.

Her support within the Central Committee was dwindling, and her public approval was dismal.

Members of the team rebelled against Dick Harter's defense-oriented style, and he was replaced mid-season by assistant Gene Littles following a dismal 8 – 32 start.

Confused about the dismal state of their world, the baby Yoshis knew that something was amiss.

In the spring of 1955 the drive for collectivization was renewed, again using physical force to encourage membership, but this second wave also ended in dismal failure.

It was a dismal failure, running for a mere 39 performances.

:" This disturbance continued from day to day ; and sometimes a dismal hollow whistling would be heard, and sometimes the trotting and snorting of a horse, but nothing to be seen .... A man was much hurt by some of the stones.

In 1992, Rock-a-Doodle was panned by critics and ignored by audiences ; its dismal box-office performance of $ 11, 657, 385 ($ in today's dollars ) contributed to Sullivan Bluth's bankruptcy.

On Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) Valladolid was the " most significant regional nucleus " of Falangism in the Spanish Second Republic, managing the second-highest provincial vote for the party in the otherwise dismal ( for Falangists ) elections of 1936, just behind Cadiz.

The postmodern outlook of the film (" a field of urns in a dismal swamp, a gnarled, blasted oak in the background, a lowering, Chernobyl sky ") was however criticized by The Guardians Art critic Adrian Searle as " adolescent, and worse, clichéd and illustrational ," adding: " Any minute, expect a dragon ".

Harris has also directed a film on migrant farmworkers and their dismal wages and living conditions ; one of the " stars " of his documentary was Luis Valdez, who went on to direct the film La Bamba.

In addition, the dreary season of Hamble was created, which is permanently dark, cold and drizzly.

Yet another variant, dated to 1903, further changes the details: " I was standing by the window, gazing out at the drizzly, raw day, and the old circus feeling came over me.

each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

The next day he was gone.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.

Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That was the day it ended.

The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.

It was a nice day, granted.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.