Sentence examples for bleak design from inspiring English sources

At the same time, Vicki Mortimer's sympathetic, bleak design makes the landscape look like a costume.

The data are bleak by design; the social scientists on whom Oklahoma relies believe that a crucial part of making and keeping a marriage is disabusing oneself of sentimental notions.

Aside from the two fine vividly constructed tapestries, one of gypsies and one of farming, the room is fairly bleak in design compared to other rooms in the house; the dining table is relatively small, with a drab grey floor and open brick fireplace dated in large letters to 1683.

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They want to make life as easy for themselves as possible, and they can do this easily through massive writeoffs and bleak business forecasts designed to cram down all but the most senior creditors.

Michael Yeargan's bleak and beautiful scenic design adds considerably to the impact.

LONDON — The bleak truth is that most design isn't very good.

The seeming plainness of "The Blue Star" is resonant enough to connect the neat, repetitive rows of the quilt's schoolhouse design with the bleak mill town to which one of Jim's high school friends, Dennis Deane, finds himself consigned.

But while this is a play about the real world of politics – a point emphasised by Tom Scutt's design of a bleak council chamber – John Tiffany's production has an extraordinary free-floating quality: between scenes, and sometimes within them, the actors practise balancing on invisible tightropes.

"The most frequent criticisms were that the design is too cold, bleak and angular," said Kent L. Barwick, president of the Municipal Art Society, which conducted its own survey.

The fish room was so bleak it felt as though each design decision had been specifically made to maximize its misery.