Sentence examples for bleak event from inspiring English sources

The past year has been especially unnerving, with one bleak event after another, and it is more than acidic politics that have soured the national mood.

That attitude sums up much of the positive news that has leaked out about Giffords's progress and the happy spin put on it by an American media eager to wrest something good from an unbearably bleak event.

Cardinal John O'Connor is to be honored today in a majestic and intricately planned Roman Catholic funeral Mass that, though rooted in ancient traditions that viewed death as a bleak event, will celebrate his anticipated ascension into heaven and eternal life with God.

A21 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 In Ritual for Cardinal, Faith in Everlasting Life Cardinal John O'Connor is to be honored today in a majestic and intricately planned funeral Mass that, though rooted in ancient traditions that viewed death as a bleak event, will celebrate what believers see as his ascension into heaven.

Photocopied imagery from newspapers and other print media emphasizes bleak events; AIDS figures prominently.

Challenged by the week's bleak events, he and his ministers have been lashing out at Labour for "exploiting" the south Lebanon imbroglio for electoral ends.

A loftier assumption would have it that the bleak events of recent history have inspired a collective will to go back and reverse course.

A plane crash, a broken engagement, and an attempted murder-suicide are among the many bleak events presented with a farcical wink in this social satire of marriage, courtship, and generational conflict.

"Rather than seen as bleak, a fearful event, it is really a Mass celebrating resurrection".

The critic Jan Kott describes the bleak turn of events as a punishment from the gods.

In a bleak summary of events, he warned: "Human, civilised society has lost the battle against barbarism".