Sentence examples for bleak passage from inspiring English sources

In one particularly bleak passage, Mr. McCain said: "Financial markets are collapsing.

In one memorably bleak passage in the book Lynch describes living in New York in her early 30s and, too shy to ask if she can share an apartment with her theatre friends, ends up staying in a room in what is basically a convent run by the Salvation Army.

For Republicans, Tuesday night's stunning loss by Roy Moore in Alabama's Senate race — the first GOP loss in a Senate race there in a generation — underscored a bleak passage of time: A year that began in unified control of Washington has ended with the party bitterly split and redefined in the worst of ways, saddled with an unpopular president and a Senate candidate accused of child molestation.

Similarly, she has never written in any detail about the other bleakest passage in her life – the period when, as a young teenager, she was sent from Cairo back to England following her parents' divorce, and shuttled between two grandmothers and a boarding school she describes as "appalling".

You put these bits in your pocket, however, to see you through the bleaker passages.

He is confidently played here by the lean, silver-haired Philip Goodwin with a dry Yankee twang and a mostly cool sense of composure that occasionally turns fierce during the play's bleaker passages.

In one of the bleakest passages in this bleak book, Dasgupta talks of the "low-level, but widespread, war against women whose new mobility made them not only the icons of India's social and economic changes but also the scapegoats".

But emotions too are magnified, with desolate moments appearing more bleak and hopeful passages more poignant.

Bursts of activity are followed by passages of bleak indecision.

Even during the bleak, intense and impassioned passages of the "Pathétique" Symphony, the playing was unstrained and inevitable.

For example, readers of The New Yorker — most notably, Hollis Robbins, an alert graduate student — have pointed out some striking similarities to passages in "Bleak House".