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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rather bleak" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, outlook, or perspective that is negative or lacking in hope.
Example: "The report painted a rather bleak picture of the economic outlook for the coming year."
Alternatives: "a quite dismal" or "a somewhat grim".
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It's a rather bleak and tortured life really".
His last article was a rather bleak assessment of President Obama for The Nation.
On one hand, the assembled cognoscenti took a rather bleak view of the U.S. economy.
The zoo itself is an elaborate technological accomplishment albeit, in my view, a rather bleak one.
We've got off to a rather bleak start: is he really such a nihilist?
It tells an unsurprising story of the years of apartheid, but a rather bleak one of the post-apartheid period.
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The press has left a rather bleak--yet unusually simplistic and contradictory--impression on their readers using material on enrollment numbers, degrees granted, employment opportunities, and, of course, cost.
Far from illustrating Old Testament laws with a thunderous drum-beating moralism, these 10 films, set mostly in the vicinity of a large, rather bleak apartment complex in Warsaw, might be described as metaphysical speculations.
Then it was back to an encore with Coleman's trio, and a last, scrambled, rather bleak tune, warmed by Moffett's Beethovian bow.
Three years later he published another book, Dad's Office, a set of rather bleak photographs taken between 1996 and 1998, of the contents of the abandoned rooms from which his father had once worked.
Carter used a different note technique but he arrived in a very similar terrain, one void of a predictive quality, and rather bleak and barren.
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