Sentence examples for being bleak from inspiring English sources

"It does have an air of being bleak and desolate," he says.

A movie like [Andre de Toth's] "Day of the Outlaw," as famous as it is for being bleak and gritty, is practically a musical in comparison to "Il Grande Silenzio".

Mountford added: "I come from Ireland, so I can say that the Irish do black humour better than anyone else … You get that rich vein of humour throughout this book, which stops it from being bleak".

David Foster Wallace, citing Gass's 1966 debut, Omensetter's Luck, as one of the "direly underappreciated" American novels of the late 20th century, commended Gass's prose for being "bleak but gorgeous, like light through ice".

On a gray, cold and blustery day earlier this month, he rectified the omission, and afterward he wrote in an e-mail message: "I'll never complain again about the Vineyard being bleak".

This tragic event had a profound effect on American society, with the cultural mood being bleak and paranoia.

Their prospects are bleak.

The alternative is bleak.

His findings are bleak.

The outlook is bleak.

It was bleak.