There is a bathtub in the kitchen area, and the sparse furniture has a bleak, cast-off character.
A tone of bleak desperation casts a dark cloud over the proceedings, obliterating any other emotion as cascading catastrophes send the pair further into abjection.
Simon Stephens' Pornography and Zinnie Harris's Fall cast a bleak gaze across a spiritually bankrupt world.
Even on days when it hasn't rained, stuck weather systems have frequently cast a bleak shadow over the region.
Murphy tears through this bleak space, playing a cast of increasingly hostile small-town characters, and engaging in a ritualised dialogue with the disembodied voice of his "Mammy".
And if his nudge-nudge stuff about Parisian demoiselles came close to caricature, he cast a bleak spell as the loneliness of fame and the bitterness of illness kicked in.
"The bleak introspection and elegiac cast of its unprecedented succession of six adagio movements left no doubt in his contemporaries' minds that the String Quartet No. 15... could be regarded as a personal requiem," Laurel E. Fay writes in her new biography of the composer.
They seem to skim over the surface before allowing the reader to plunge into moments of unexpected death and feeling, like the heartbreaking revelation at the end of "Summer's Day," when an overheard conversation casts a bleak, autumnal shadow over what had seemed an ordinary day at the beach.
ORBIS BISTRO has no fireplace, but on bleak winter nights it casts a warm yellow glow down its quiet block in this inviting section of Upper Montclair, a streetscape of well-tended brick storefronts and gabled houses from the 1910's and 20's.
In keeping with the Noah's-ark design ethos, the room was also furnished with a pair of enormous plastic trash cans; one stood near the door, casting a bleak plastic pall over things, and the other took up too much space in the tiny shared bathroom.
When this group officially becomes part of the elderly population in 2020, a resurgence of TB is possible, and this possibility casts a bleak outlook for TB control in South Korea.
