Sentence examples similar to bleak affection from inspiring English sources

Comedy as a savage weapon, comedy as bleak despair, comedy as wry observation and as warm humour and affection.

This future is bleaker than Hanson's – lacking empathy, those robots wouldn't have a sentimental affection for us as their progenitors – but essentially the same.

It's a bleak book, with an accumulation of unpleasant physical detail and a strain of comedy and affection — Down and Out in Tampa and Lehigh Acres.

She renders her wobbly, minutely textured characters with wit and tough affection, and her habit of looking for the darkly funny side of everything keeps the book from getting too bleak.

Equal affection.

"Very bleak".

Bleak stuff.

Too bleak?

The prognosis was bleak.

It just looked bleak.

Failed transition, bleak future?