Sentence examples for bleak challenge from inspiring English sources

But perhaps the most striking aspect of his novel The Private Life of a Nation is its rarity: portrayals of a unified Korea are unusual enough – never mind such a bleak challenge to the rosy official image of the future.

You can hear it in the sparse, bleak, challenging music the Neptunes conjure up: one-finger synthesizer riffs, disjointed vocals, harsh, trebly beats.

Contemporary writers in Russia are often bleak and challenging.

The modest increase in its appropriation for fiscal 1989 staved off operational paralysis, but there seems nothing on the horizon that will challenge the bleak assessment that "There's never enough--never enough money, never enough men, & never enough time".

However, recent experimental and clinical advances challenge the bleak long-term outcome of this disease.

As the militant group is pushed slowly out of Mosul and strongholds in the villages surrounding it, the glacial pace of recovery is a bleak warning of the challenges ahead; a reminder that getting rid of the fighters is just the end of the beginning.

Ben Raymenants, a diver among the international team assisting rescue efforts, painted a bleak picture of the challenges faced by the rescuers in comments to Sky News.

Faced with the prospect of a bleak future, will youthful energy challenge its sworn enemy – the status quo?

The bleak fiscal environment presents particular challenges for fields that rely on large and costly facilities.

It has to be very emotional doing a project like this, you go into a new place, a different society, and the challenges can be bleak.

It's a bleak picture, but where there is challenge, there is also innovation.