Sentence examples for a bleak portrait from inspiring English sources

It was a bleak portrait of a soldier held in deplorable conditions by enemy forces.

The film follows them through street incidents that paint a bleak portrait of a dirty cop.

No one at the ceremony seemed to mind that they were honoring an actor and director who had created such a bleak portrait of the village.

Television shows such as Homicide: Life on the Street, The Corner and, most notably, The Wire have painted a bleak portrait of the city.

In her speech, Mrs. Clinton painted a bleak portrait of rural America, one of population decline, low-wage jobs and poverty.

He paints a bleak portrait of his village, to which he briefly returns to discover a swarm of wasted bodies "waiting for death", a childhood friend eating rice by the grain and tap water for sale.

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Richard Yates's novel, published in 1961, was acclaimed as an unsparingly bleak portrait of a poisonous marriage, and a devastating attack on 1950s conformity.

But while it's written with Goode's customary brilliance it is also an unremittingly bleak portrait of a world where men are in crisis and turn their misery into violence.

She paints a devastatingly bleak portrait of 1960s marriage.

The three surveys are expected to provide a decidedly bleak portrait of the current housing market.