Sentence examples for bleak pictures from inspiring English sources

The picture painted in The Wire and The House I Live In is bleak, and people don't like to look at bleak pictures.

Lasting nearly 2 1/2 hours, it paints bleak pictures of lives touched by drugs, from the federal agent who is blown apart by a bomb aimed at a witness he was protecting to the prep school student who is foolish enough to overdose while his parents are in Barbados.

Separately, new U.S. national intelligence estimates of Afghanistan and Pakistan paint bleak pictures of security conditions inside Afghanistan and of Pakistan's willingness to rout militants on its side of the border, according to several U.S. officials briefed on both reports.

Further charts offered a similarly bleak picture.

In all, it is a bleak picture.

That bleak picture may be changing.

A Western diplomat painted a bleak picture.

This bleak picture could get worse.

He painted a particularly bleak picture.

All told, this is a bleak picture.

I don't think it's a completely bleak picture.