Cubans lived in abysmal poverty in the countryside. His teams were marked by high scoring offenses and abysmal defenses. Couching is a largely unsuccessful technique with abysmal outcomes. After an abysmal stress test, they wasted still more time by bickering and family drama. After winning the division in 2005, the Bucs suffered through an abysmal 2006 season. When the game was released, it eventually ended up getting abysmal ratings across the board. Conditions on the tour buses were abysmal and bitterly cold. However, their escape route was blocked by an Abysmal Knight. May wrote that the wartime performance of the Allied intelligence services was abysmal. This was the only gleam of hope in an otherwise abysmal landscape. Joe finds her script abysmal, but flatters her into hiring him as a script doctor. The following season, and after an abysmal run of results, Dykes resigned. Nightingale's revelation of the abysmal nursing care afforded soldiers in the Crimean War energized reformers. An abysmal screen test for Korda had ended with Donat's laughter. The audio and visual quality received negative reviews, with Blu-ray.com calling it "mostly abysmal".