The workforce is woefully unproductive—no surprise given the abysmal state of India's education system, which churns out millions of adults equipped only for menial work.
For example, even though molecules of chlorophyll are abysmal at absorbing green light, this layered arrangement allows a leaf to capture up to 80% of the green light that hits it.
And that can be pretty abysmal in a pretty dark place if your whole being is based on acting or writing or whatever it is, because you're gonna, it's gonna end.
And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity.
My first few seasons as a head coach were abysmal, and after putting up with my brash coaching style for a few years, our team asked me for a team meeting.
You look at, do we really want the rest of the world adopting our diet of eating processed food, where we're eating 70 percent processed food? And our health statistics are abysmal.