Sentence examples for bleak character from inspiring English sources

The Tweeting and flitting of Huntsman's daughters, while enjoyable, never altered the race's bleak character.

It was such a bleak character to play – you could not go home happy.

"There was a weakening, it's true, but in spite of that it has its own very powerful, bleak character".

Simon Amstell's Grandma's House was probably the closest we've got yet to producing this kind of authored reality, but because he's such a bleak character with so many niche self-esteem issues it didn't quite connect".

The dossier outlining the scheme, prepared by Salford's Technical Services Officer, emphasised the "bleak character" of the Irwell Valley with "many constructions by the river that are decaying and rotting" and said "the main problems are caused by an excess of ammonia and a high organic content from sewage effluents which discharge into the water upstream".

Thoughtful, brooding, clever, tense, bleak, character-based, but also scary as hell, there's something of the Scandi shows about The Fall then.

Yes, the story is bleak, as characters face painful questions about belief and sacrifice, and the ending is truly breathtaking as nuns slowly walk to the guillotine (thankfully, offstage, but still).

There is a bathtub in the kitchen area, and the sparse furniture has a bleak, cast-off character.

Judge Patterson said that he loved literature and that his father had been a fan of Shakespearean tragedy, but he reminded the parties that in "Bleak House," the character Miss Flite faithfully attends every day of the trial and finally dies in her little attic.

MINUSES -- The story's very strengths -- its bleak eloquence, the characters' uncomfortable silences and the reflective pace -- will not gratify audiences seeking light entertainment.

Dickens has this music-hall, catchphrase tendency, so I wrote bits of Bleak House with characters coming on like The Fast Show and always saying the same thing, like 'Shake me up, Judy.' I'm afraid I watch rather a lot of television.