Sentence examples for a bleak finale from inspiring English sources

"O Tannenbaum" provides a bleak finale: a moral white-out in a snowbound landscape where a family pick up a couple of hitchhikers.

The new ending wasn't "happy," just ambiguously redemptive, but it seemed to betray the play's bleak finale — an emotional wasteland worthy of T. S. Eliot.

But it eventually carried on, and the audience responded to its bleak finale with silence and then a standing ovation.

No 3, with its minatory opening march, deliberately grotesque scherzo and bleak finale, is Davies's response to the invasion of Iraq, while the single-movement Fourth was designed to be much lighter and less aggressive than its predecessor, with Breughel's painting of children's games as its direct inspiration.

A teenage boy stays firmly on the rails, no drugs, no wildness— "a son in a flute band seemed like a blessing by comparison" —but his enthusiasm for being in a Protestant marching band inexorably pulls the family apart.Ms Seiffert's novel builds not so much to a grand finale as a bleak realisation, that grand political themes, brought down to the level of the everyday, aggrandise no one.

The finale of the three-game series at Yankee Stadium was called off yesterday afternoon because of a persistent downpour and a bleak forecast.

They have a bleak future.

A bleak terrain.

A bleak prospect indeed.

In a bleak kitchen.

It's a bleak outlook.