Sentence examples similar to bleak imagination. from inspiring English sources

Yet against such a bleak background, ambition and imagination take flight.

Here was an English writer, desperately sick, grappling alone with the demons of his imagination in a bleak Scottish outpost in the desolate aftermath of the second world war.

This bleak forecast captured the public imagination.

It expressed, in the most grotesque way, our hopelessness as well as the bleak landscape of our political imagination.

He takes Anthony Newley's magical Pure Imagination somewhere new – bleak and pensive.

"He wasn't powerful, he wasn't great, he was...less than everybody else...he'd been cursed with a bad Dad and a bad Ma and a bad sister...the years ahead stretched out bleak and joyless in his imagination and his chest went suddenly dense with rage".

But the Republican party ideological imagination is a pretty bleak landscape in its own right – Cain, Bachmann and Perry, in the context of the roiling populism shown in polls, look like they're clinging to the husks of a weedy field.

Sherrie Levine's bleak little conceits have stirred the imaginations of some of the art world's most advanced thinkers.

Writing about drug highs is notoriously difficult to do well, or at least in a way that captures the imagination, but bookshelves heave with bleak dispatches from the frontline of dependency.

In their very ordinariness, they are a bleak indictment of the historic failure of imagination that is Britain's official response to the greatest humanitarian crisis we have faced in our lifetimes.

It's enough of a leap of the imagination to see Inspector Bucket from Bleak House having a conversation with Mr Venus from Our Mutual Friend.