The phrase "a somewhat bleak" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, outlook, or perspective that is somewhat negative or lacking in hope.
Example: "The report painted a somewhat bleak picture of the economic outlook for the coming year."
Alternatives: "a rather grim" or "a somewhat dismal".
His films are marked by a macabre sense of humour and a somewhat bleak view of the human condition.
Soylent has been heralded by the press as "the end of food," which is a somewhat bleak prospect.
And although celebrity authors such as Zadie Smith and JK Rowling are doing well, literature remains a somewhat bleak terrain.
Faherty surveyed fans at a deli called Cheese 'n' Stuff, a Dairy Queen, and an unnamed coffee shop, painting a somewhat bleak picture of the cultural life in downtown Phoenix.
Sitting with Michael Munn, biographer to the stars, in a somewhat bleak pub near his home in Sudbury, Suffolk, I can't get out of my head that classic Pete 'n' Dud sketch in which the flat-capped Peter Cook reveals to Dudley Moore the problems he is having being harassed by the likes of "bloody Greta Garbo".
Some envision a somewhat bleak picture for the people in the corporate middle.
In a genre wedded to the gospel of nice -- high school sweethearts, neighborly front porches, good dads, wise grampas -- Mr. Fulks takes a somewhat bleaker tack.
After a stellar first outing in "Lightless" and an uneven and somewhat bleak sequel in "Supernova," Higgins is in fine form closing out her space opera.
These items were followed by Mr. Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait," which, as most people know, represents the wide-open-spaces-cum-Americana Copland, rather than the atonal Copland we heard on opening night, and which is capable, at its best, of producing landscape backgrounds of a reasonably pleasing, if somewhat bleak, variety.
Later editions of the work sounded a somewhat less bleak concluding note, but did not differ in substance.
The catching landscape is somewhat bleak.
