According to Air Force historian Alan Stephens, "as they took off into a bleak, snow-filled night they found themselves questioning the worth of the sortie, an attitude which doubtless was not shared by the eventual recipients".
Leading up to José and Desiree's reunion, we mostly see b-roll of the five-hour drive from Brooklyn to Attica and prison's oppressive brick and concrete walls surrounded by bleak snow.
This is not a familiar route for Asiana, as is evident when a female voice tells us on arrival not to use our mobile phones until we are out of the plane.If only we could, we think, as the plane taxis past bleak snow-swept fields up to a small terminal with Kim Il Sung's grinning portrait atop it.
It makes me wonder: what is the bleakest snow scene in all art?
You can tell he had never marched sinister-dexter like Auden's soldier along Hadrian's Wall in December nor mounted guard as the snow fell on a bleak river crossing in County Durham.
On a bleak day in 1887, he drove seven miles through the snow to see that he came into the world.
Doctors now prescribe flights south and with good reason: Warm temperatures courtesy of global warming have made winter a bleak, grey affair in the Northeast, where a little sun and snow used to temper the January blues.
Mawenzi summit's fearfully serrated talons shredded the blue heavens; the rounded, snow-glazed brow of Kibo, a few miles to the left across a bleak lava plateau, stood higher, yet seemed by comparison benign.
Even covered in fresh snow, which can lend anything a beautiful luster, the dead trees gave the landscape a bleak, post-apocalyptic aspect.
Traveling across a harsh, cold, snow-covered terrain filled with wild packs of dogs, Willo heads into the city, a bleak realm of starvation and violence.
