The phrase "a bleak performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a performance that is disappointing, lacking in quality, or disheartening in nature.
Example: "The actor's portrayal of the character was so uninspired that it resulted in a bleak performance that left the audience feeling unsatisfied."
Alternatives: "a dismal performance" or "a disappointing performance".
Japanese manufacturing activity also put in a bleak performance in the Markit/JMMA Japan manufacturing purchasing managers index for December, released Friday, which declined at its fastest pace in more than three years.
Mr Schein says it is easier for managers to hire a coach than to give an unsatisfactory employee a bleak performance appraisal.And yet such "derailment coaching" is not much fun for coaches either, and it rarely achieves much, so the coaching industry is increasingly trying to accentuate the positive, even urging companies to use their services as a perk to retain high-fliers.
The book is a "bleak performance... a tired study of the vacuous" with the feeling of an improvised screenplay being performed by an uncommitted cast.
But some analysts had said that the figure masked a bleaker performance, because it included several one-time gains that should not have been part of ongoing operations.
But in what may be its last quarter as an independent company, Sun's bleak performance has surprised even its naysayers.
The bleak performance in Europe overshadowed Ford's strong results in North America, where it reported a $2 billion operating profit in the quarter.
Endemic corruption and war, including the conflicts in Ethiopia as well as western and central Africa, are the main causes of the bleak performance, the report says.
THE bleak performance left Coca-Cola looking more vulnerable as its once impeccable public image was stained by crises -- from the biggest product recall in company history to a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a group of its black employees.
Though belated, the World Bank's assessment that some of its policies and projects in Africa are failures is encouraging ("World Bank Cites Itself in Study of Africa's Bleak Performance," news article, June 1).
Box-office performance also paints a bleak picture for an NC-17 film.
His glowing performance as the kindly, frustrated 35 year-old facing a bleak and loveless future was described by the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther as "a beautiful blend of the crude and the strangely gentle and sensitive".
