Sentence examples for bleak affairs from inspiring English sources

The cafés and market stalls on the streets of Almaty are rather bleak affairs.

Al Jazeera's position in this bleak affair is no secret.

When the chief executive of Marie Claire owner IPC Media told the great and the good of the publishing world that magazines are a "burning platform", the industry's annual conference looked set to be a bleak affair.

I took the day off, as Eid on your own at work without family can be a rather bleak affair, and was surprised to find that when I logged on to Twitter (not a nice place over the past few days) there were lots of genuine Eid messages from non-Muslims and Muslim fasters, luxuriating in their first morning teas in a month.

In just a few short years has gone from been a pretty bleak affair to being a real — if nascent — startup ecosystem.

Of course, visiting Gotham City is supposed to be a bleak affair.

For one thing, the vista is largely illusory; turning their heads a fraction they can see lorries and cars whizzing along the road behind the hotel, a rather bleak, concrete affair.

Doctors now prescribe flights south and with good reason: Warm temperatures courtesy of global warming have made winter a bleak, grey affair in the Northeast, where a little sun and snow used to temper the January blues.

But this bleak state of affairs is born less out of global crisis and more of government resistance.

The murder of Berta Cáceres illustrates a bleak state of affairs in Honduras.

That's a pretty bleak state of affairs.