Sentence examples for bleak appearance from inspiring English sources
Derwent Edge is the most northerly of the gritstone escarpments that flank the national park, yet despite its bleak appearance the influence of man is clear: in the land managed for red grouse shoots, and in the reservoirs far below that hide drowned villages.
Writing in 1847, the clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones said that St Mary's, which he called "a rather long and low building", was situated "in an uneven, rocky, and exposed locality" within a parish that had a "peculiarly bleak and desolate appearance".
In the 1980s, the plant, a squat slab of industrial grey that stretches for kilometres throughout the city's west end with a bleak and brutal appearance that betrays the still in use post-war technology, had 12,000 employees.
His cameo as Lord Verisopht prepared the ground for later BBC television Dickens appearances in Bleak House, Barnaby Rudge and David Copperfield, in which he scuttled around as the eccentric, knife-bearing Mr Dick.
Again, the outward appearance couldn't be bleaker – black gates with padlocks, and behind them a series of portable classrooms.
One day, in this bleak mood, Jones learned about an appearance by Julia Butterfly Hill.
Samuel Beckett's entry into this series with his characteristically bleak, nihilistic humour, marks another milestone: the first appearance since Shakespeare of a writer who will innovate as brilliantly in theatre as much as in poetry and prose.
To all appearances, Thoreau lived a life of bleak failure.
This is colour that emerges when winter is at its bleakest, colour that will hum on a dull day and shout when the sun makes an appearance.
