Sentence examples for bleak contrast from inspiring English sources

It is far easier being a sucker for Harrison quoting an evocative 82-year-old poet in Angelou when, in bleak contrast, Haye suggested the fight will be "as one-sided as a gang rape".

Many of its residential neighborhoods, including that in which I live, stand in depressingly bleak contrast to the beauty, cleanliness, and organization of the business and government districts, which are often the only areas seen by tourists or in movies.

The country's decade and a half of stagnation stands in bleak contrast to the blistering growth that preceded it and that enjoyed more recently by many other rich economies, notably America.

Yet the bleak contrast between what Iraqis experienced and America's self-proclaimed exceptionalism led many Iraqis to join a group that made its own set of promises -- ISIS -- and the results have been terrifying.

A century ago it could have been an impressive piece of art nouveau architecture, but worn away by the years, like most of the buildings in Praga it now stands as a bleak contrast to the city's shiny financial center.

A century ago it could have been an impressive piece of art nouveau architecture, but — worn away by the years, like most of the buildings in Praga — it now stands as a bleak contrast to the city's shiny financial center.

That buoyancy is in stark contrast with bleak conditions in Europe.

The child's brightly colored clothing stands in stark contrast to a bleak landscape and bleak prospects.

In 1963 he published The Nesting Ground, widely considered his first book of poems to address his new surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, a stark contrast to the bleak, industrialized Midwestern landscape of his youth.

The allotments (community gardens) at the edge of Grimethorpe sit in stark contrast to the bleak uniformity of the distant warehouse.

In situ under a spotlight in an otherwise dark space, cellist Takenobu's buoyant acoustics offer a stark contrast to the skeleton's bleak demeanour.