Sentence examples for bleak environments from inspiring English sources

In Annie Dillard's book "The Writing Life," she said that desirable writing places are to be avoided and bleak environments are best because you want a place where imagination meets memory in the dark.

She admired how Ernst's arresting yellows popped in his depictions of bleak environments.

In this bleak environment, Isabel's family is her refuge.

But Sollac and other steel mills like it operate in a desperately bleak environment.

Clarke said that a life sentence "ensures Jahar Tsarnaev will be locked away in a bleak environment, in bleak conditions.

All the more miraculous, then, that in such a bleak environment Melissa McCarthy can become a star.

But the four youngsters pictured have transformed their bleak environment of abandoned buildings in Asbury Park into a playground.

His mother, Esther – Henschke's sister – had, he says, the "chutzpah" to extricate herself from the bleak environment in which she and her brother grew up.

In this bleak environment, with very little available water right now, elephant families are not only pitted against other families but also against each other.

Why doesn't a small company that thrives despite this bleak environment get a bit more credit for being a Great British Success Story?

Some retailers, though, have begun to figure out how to manage in the bleak environment, selling huge amounts of merchandise at steep discounts to generate cash.