Sentence examples for a bleak gaze from inspiring English sources

Simon Stephens' Pornography and Zinnie Harris's Fall cast a bleak gaze across a spiritually bankrupt world.

By the end, I wasn't convinced the historic moon mission that begins the book had all that much to do with Duncan's journey, but I did feel a bit like Michael Collins in the command module of Apollo 11, circling around and around a bleak and beautiful world, gazing down in wonder but never able to land.

But it all but closed in 2007 when the economy soured, pitching dozens of workers into the ranks of the unemployed, and the plant now functions mainly as a bleak backdrop to Ms. Flaherty's restaurant, the Southside Cafe, where diners gaze out at its red brick walls.

It was a bleak time and, watching Anne Hathaway toss her lustrous hair and James Franco level his handsome, squinting, stoner gaze at the camera, it's hard to fathom that it wasn't too long ago.

They have a bleak future.

A bleak prospect indeed.

A bleak terrain.

In a bleak kitchen.

Neither is having a bleak outlook.

It's a bleak prediction.

It provides a bleak answer.