"a bleak reality" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is unpleasant, challenging, or depressing. Example: "The economic forecast for the coming months painted a bleak reality, with rising unemployment rates and a struggling stock market."
Which would be a bleak reality indeed, if that's all it is".
Although the commentary on the nominations is pithy and humorous it belies a bleak reality.
But skeptics say that "everyday Americans" and the other phrases candidates use to fill the void are overly vague and upbeat and obscure a bleak reality.
The affluence of several prominent figures masks a bleak reality: Many people in the L.G.B.T. community go hungry, a new report shows.
UpFront host Mehdi Hasan asked Ms Hotovely to respond to a report from Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency, which suggested Palestinians were carrying out attacks to "escape from a bleak reality which they perceive as unchangeable".
But just as telling a child who is bad at maths that he has "dyscalculia" will not help his sum, other labels, however gentle, do not soften a bleak reality.
Bernie Sanders's Supporters Consider Where to Turn if His Bid Fails By YAMICHE ALCINDOR April 26, 2016 The senator's backers still turn out, eager to hear his message, but a bleaker reality about his prospects is beginning to settle in.
That suggests a pretty bleak reality for the rest of us.
But those using the challenge to basically argue that being poor wouldn't be so bad - or at least that they'd be better at it than those currently experiencing it - are invoking a glamorized vision of poverty to respond to a significantly more bleak reality.
Shaped by his time spent serving in Iraq, American soldier Brian Turner's first collection, Here, Bullet, depicted combat with a mixture of bleak reality and disturbing surrealism.
It aired shortly before Motherland, a pilot Horgan wrote with Graham Linehan about the bleak reality of being a parent.
