Sentence examples for bleak era from inspiring English sources

To this day, many Poles mutter about the poor quality and ungainliness of the buildings: gray, soulless reflections of an equally bleak era.

The choice – made at a particularly bleak era for Liberal fortunes – reflected all the greater credit on him since he had all the credentials for a more orthodox form of political ascent.

The Jets (6-9) will have their first losing season since going 1-15 in 1996, the final year of the Jets' bleak era before Bill Parcells bolted New England to coach the Jets.

But for many Californians, struggling through a bleak era that has led some people to wonder if the state's golden days are behind it, this project goes to the heart of the state's pioneering spirit, recalling grand public investments in universities, water systems, roads and parks that once defined California as the leading edge of the nation.

If not indisputably America's most famous nightspot, it was certainly in the front ranks of Cafe Society, whose effervescent goings-on (as reported in daily columns, glossy magazines and sophisticated Hollywood comedies) furnished material for the fantasy life of millions in that bleak era.

And, while I don't envy the young ones in this bleak era of hook-ups and hairless vulvas (though signs are pointing to some backlash against that particular trend, mercifully), the truth is it's even tougher for those of us who are no longer bright-eyed and bush-less 20-thru-40-somethings.

The CEO, great-grandson of the automotive pioneer who founded Ford 99 years ago, took over the company a year ago; his tenure has coincided with one of the bleakest eras in the company's history.

Koestenbaum also relates the proclivity for "multiplication and archiving" to gay taste in New York, which in "the bleak McCarthy era paradoxically flourished in the home".

When the couple married, on Nov. 20, 1947, early in Britain's long, bleak postwar era, Winston Churchill hailed their union as "a flash of colour on the hard road we have to travel".

For example... "Aw naw! Annoni's oan an' aw noo!" (A line attributed to a Celtic fan during the bleak Lou Macari era when Italian dud Enrico Annoni came on as a substitute).

The train then passed by row after row of bleak Communist-era housing blocks and vacant lots.