The doleful prophecies of that time were the main arguments adduced to scare those who were inclined to vote for this change.
Now we are putting a vicious new twist into the doleful process that both parties have been engaged in for the past 50 years.
In page 16 of their report they indulge in a very doleful criticism of the effect of labour-saving machinery upon labour.
As it was a message of hope, he need not have been so doleful.
Against the background of those doleful figures, the £60 million cut in regional aid is deplorable.
We heard the melancholy and doleful tale of the coal trade.
It is very possible, moreover, that today or tomorrow we will continue to add to this doleful list.
All the doleful consequences which we were told would follow have not followed.
