Sentence examples for bleak one from inspiring English sources
Reading this eight-hundred-odd-page volume straight through is like being caught and held by the wrist by an imp or enchantress: Tinkerbell, on a lighthearted day; Ophelia, on a bleak one.
We are likely to put it somewhere on the spectrum between uncomfortably coarse and painfully bleak – one powerful marker of the distance between the Roman world and our own.
A less bleak one: Don and Ted leave together.
If she has a metaphysics, it's a very bleak one.
If it's a true reflection of our society it's a bleak one.
As kids, Jose and Ricardo Ponce lived in a bleak one-bedroom apartment, shared by as many as 10 relatives at a time, on the west side of San Bernardino.
The British public were being given "a very bleak, one-sided view" of an industry that employs thousands.
In the Mendelssohn and in Vaughan Williams's bleak one-act opera "Riders to the Sea," which came next, the woodwinds were the strongest section of the orchestra.
Some were skeptical about physicians' predictions, and not without reason — but notice that they weren't skeptical of the doctors' hopeful tidings, just the bleak ones.
It's not that Mr. Lewis is maudlin or unoriginal; it's just that he prefers buoyant details to the bleak ones that are implicit here.
