Sentence examples for bleak acceptance from inspiring English sources
She's at her best on Homer's – and his fellow Greeks' – bleak acceptance that death is it, the end, nothing beyond but shades flitting and twittering by the Styx, unable to luxuriate in war-earned glory, no fame worth an hour's real life.
The author further interpreted it as "I always feel the urge to make a fresh start" suggesting this could be the "bleak acceptance of the ideological and economic codes that mold our lives in accordance with the imperative of planned obsolescence, or as a hopeful embracing of the genuine prospects of renewal and change".
"What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland," the novella's female protagonist suggests, quoting Samuel Beckett, and this bleak attitude of acceptance — not existential, precisely, but unsentimental — is what resonates.
And although I still have my bleak and terrible days, I feel more acceptance of myself.
In "Bush Health Savings Accounts Slow to Gain Acceptance" (Business Day, Oct. 13), a bleak future is painted for these accounts, but data and real-life experience suggest otherwise.
(Indigenous female patient, aged 40 49 years)" For many Indigenous participants, the eventual "acceptance" of dialysis was accompanied by a somewhat bleak sense of resignation described graphically by one Indigenous patient: " P: Well, a lot of them know they're stuck here for life until they die, you know.
Despite this bleak picture, in the overwhelming majority of the world's 193 countries, the trend is towards ever greater LGBTI acceptance and equality.
Acceptance, acceptance, acceptance".
