dismal vs stony-faced

dismal

adj
  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

stony-faced

adj
  • Showing no (or little) expression of emotion; poker-faced. 

How often have the words dismal and stony-faced occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )