Sentence examples for as a bleak from inspiring English sources

The Old West, melancholy and lonely, comes off as a bleak and scary place.

If anything, it could serve as a bleak memorial to the concept of twin towns.

Now Lessig has published a book, "The Future of Ideas," which serves as a bleak summa of his thoughts on intellectual property.

Wednesday 19 October will be remembered as a bleak day by those who claim allegiance with the UK's Traveller and Romany Gypsy communities.

(The Standard's theatre critic, Nicholas De Jongh, dismissed Spacey's 2004 debut production, Cloaca, as "a bleak whimper of discontent … packed with hectic extravagances and excesses").

Mostly ignored in the recent past as a bleak cement shortcut, Union Square is now designed to invite shoppers to linger and watch street performers on pedestals.

He described the Challenger Deep as possessing a bleak terrain that was all but barren of life.

He cites 2013's nationwide federal government shutdown as offering a bleak insight into his nation's bureaucracy.

But there is another side to Atwood's story and to classify it as only a bleak, cautionary tale would be simplistic.

Murder by Contract (1958), directed by Irving Lerner, is a deadpan joke on noir, with a denouement as bleak as any of the films it kids.

Wasilewski leads us into a perfect storm of domestic anguish, towards a climax as bleak as the deserted industrial spaces that form the backdrop.