The phrase "a bleak side" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative or discouraging aspect of a situation or topic.
Example: "While the project has many promising features, there is a bleak side to its implementation that we must address."
Alternatives: "a grim aspect" or "a dismal side".
I've shown quite a bleak side of things but, if there is any hope in these images, it's with the kids".
To her credit, she acknowledges that there is a bleak side to her reveries: the has-been dance-hall girl wallowing in memory and the true character of the Dust Bowl, which she concedes was "a tragic, horrible time, not a hopeful time".
In some cases these trends go beyond FIFA; accumulator culture already pervades soccer and the presence, however small, of betting in FUT is a bleak side effect of this.
In some cases these trends go beyond FIFA; accumulator culture already pervades football and the presence, however small, of betting in FUT is a bleak side effect of this.
Andy Brassell: "If Porto's season looks a touch on the bleak side, one can only consider how much worse it would be without their star striker Jackson Martinez.
She was good until she collapsed, and then she became an inconvenient casualty on the bleak side of the housing boom.
But by the time the two met in 1947 at the Design Laboratory, run by Alexey Brodovitch, art director of Harper's Bazaar, Mr. Faurer had been observing the bleak side of American urban life for about a decade, his style well in place.
Though Christmas 1898 was on the bleak side, Zola, Jeanne and the children had spent an idyllic summer in a house called Penn in Walton-on-Thames, then at Summerfield in Addlestone, Surrey.
Alan Bleasdale's wonderful Boys from the Blackstuff not only documented one bleak side of the era, it also seemed to set up a line which should not be crossed - 'which side are you on, boys?' as Billy Bragg asked - where a writer's sympathies were concerned.
Here was a measure of inconvenience that could be integrated into daily life, albeit with certain bleak side effects, as chronicled by John Cheever and Richard Yates.
He wrote, too, about the bleak side of relationships, and the Aids crisis.
