Sentence examples for bleak joke from inspiring English sources

It is the ultimate bleak joke.

One bleak joke doing the rounds is that "even lawyers' lawyers need lawyers" these days.

(Hitler is Pamba's "station name," the bleak joke of a white boss for whom Pamba once worked as a cattle drover).

On the campaign trail John McCain liked to quote the bleak joke from Charles Schulz, the cartoon creator of the perennial loser Charlie Brown: "It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black".

The first time I heard the phrase "state-subsidised corporate super-profits" was last June, at a conference of the pressure group Compass, in a discussion about meeting child poverty targets by 2020 (the title was intended as a bleak joke, I think).

And there are bleak jokes aplenty.

There were bleak jokes across social media, driven by a powerful anger at being sacrificed for the short-term self-interest of people who would not have to face all the consequences.

They'd have parties where they'd eat, play cards and exchange bleak jokes about the economy.

Symphony No. 12, from 1946, is something of a bleak private joke, as if Langgaard had somehow boiled down his epic first symphony into seven minutes.

But neither the museum audience nor the unwelcoming comics were aware of a bleak inside joke: Arcangel had recently been given a diagnosis of thyroid cancer and was undergoing treatments that compromised both his memory and his ability to concentrate.

Most of all, though, the bleakest running joke in the Ranown canon is death.