Sentence examples for bleak curtain from inspiring English sources
The last decade of predominantly La Niña conditions has offered a bleak curtain raiser for things to come.
Many of these individuals are fiercely independent, choosing isolation behind the so-called "Redwood Curtain" despite bleak economic conditions in the region.
"It was Laurence Olivier's 'Hamlet.' I remember the gradual darkening of the theater, the slow, somber opening of the curtain, the first bleak images of the sea-locked castle and the even bleaker music that accompanied them.
Things are now looking up, artistically at least, in one of the bleakest, most deprived former Iron Curtain countries, Romania.
After a breathtaking opening sequence of pearl divers in the watery depths, the curtain rises on a bleak coastal village, where a weather-beaten billboard — advertising jewelry with the tagline "Inspiration from the Deep" — looms over tin-and-cardboard huts.
It's a warm afternoon in London when we meet and her living room curtains are drawn; the effect is cosy, rather than bleak.
They painted the bleak metal grilles on the vacant houses – adorning their doors and windows with colourful curtains and flowers – launched the market, and won a Britain in Bloom contest.
The bleak expressive power of his music came across loud and clear in what felt like a curtain-raiser for a rewarding set of concerts.
The set, by Salle, is a knockout: a curtain of silver beads enclosing the three sides of the stage, making it look both numinous and bleak.
