Sentence examples for a slightly bleak from inspiring English sources

It's surrounded by grass but also by a box hedge probably 25ft high, giving it a slightly bleak, impenetrable feel.

In the late 1970s he briefly ran a club in Los Angeles, and his recording and touring career had a slightly bleak period in the mid-1980s, but he returned to form and to mastery of the international stage in 1989.

A closer look gives a slightly bleaker picture: According to latest data from the Magazine Publishers Association, between Q1 2013 and Q1 2012, Forbes Magazine (the print version only) lost 16% in ads revenues ($50m to $42m).

A closer inspection of the song's lyrics entails a slightly bleaker interpretation.

The rocky terrace of Alex Paddocks overlooks a broad, beautiful, and slightly bleak valley.

A closer look at the last couple of months, however, paints a slightly more bleak outlook.

That was the slightly bleak endorsement offered by Stephen Young, a retired business-owner looking on when the senator launched his campaign in Central, the blink-and-you-miss-it country town where he grew up.Mr Graham's ability to project gloom about American weakness in a nasty world resonates with a lot of folks, Mr Young and his wife Linda explained.

Last season, Maria held her show in the deco splendour of the Palm Court of the Waldorf hotel opposite Somerset, which perhaps suited the clothes better; the slightly bleak Somerset House tents play better for very theatrical clothes than for such wearable ones, I think, so it was a little like watching a great clay court tennis pro play a match on grass.

And it is indeed difficult to warm to, let alone empathise with, a character who endlessly considers his own state of mind, but "parr[ies] and ducks, like an outclassed boxer" when he is forced to confront himself emotionally.And yet there are scenes of intense warmth and wit, and these stand out on the slightly bleak horizon of the novel like shafts of sunlight.

But André Cédillot is looking at the future in slightly bleaker terms.

The course headed north, across dry lava beds and a slightly undulating and endlessly bleak terrain.