Sentence examples for bleak background from inspiring English sources

The decision comes against a bleak background.

Mr. Mac said he drew his material from his own bleak background.

Yet against such a bleak background, ambition and imagination take flight.

From such a bleak background, a new jazz blossomed – and Ibrahim was one of its most charismatically gifted messengers.

Seen against this bleak background, then, Obama's State of the Union address was a masterly exercise in rear-guard tactics disguised as visionary optimism.

Higher taxes, reduced prison numbers, cuts in essential defence capacity, reduced support for the family and no action on Europe provide the increasingly bleak background.

(13+) Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle (Atom, £6.99) Winner of the 2016 Guardian children's fiction prize, Crongton Knights, with its bleak estate setting and a background of hardship and crime, should be a gruelling story of everyday life.

There is a stereotyped image of the Andes showing poverty against a background of bleak, unproductive mountains, where millions insist, against all apparent logic, on living at 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) or more above sea level.

Kim's background is bleak even by North Korean standards.

For all her optimism, Kimmy's background touches on some bleak stuff, not only referencing Westboro-style religious zealots, but also hinting at abduction cases.

"Third" is unlikely to become fashionable background music; it's too bleak, too daring, too exposed.