Sentence examples for bleak point from inspiring English sources

Several people I interview insist this is a strength: they make the bleak point that, historically, single leaders of civil rights movements have almost always been assassinated.

A further wrinkle is that Sutherland père is himself a recovering addict: three decades sober after an alcoholic rock bottom (as detailed in his memoir Last Drink to LA) that put him at the bleak point where it was recovery or "the jail, the locked ward, or the morgue".

Hawkins states that these films took a rather bleak point of view due to the living conditions of the artists and the economic prospects of the 1970s.

Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Office, says the dry spell (some areas are in their third year of drought) and the study by KSU has accelerated local discussion over water.The KSU paper also spells out a bleaker point: that unthinkable cuts of about 80% are needed to make groundwater use in Kansas truly sustainable.

While the ad includes numbers that point to an economic recovery, it does not mention bleaker points like the decline in wages when adjusted for inflation or foreclosure rates that remain stubbornly high.

Yet it could be an opportunity for the Olympics to live up to its lofty ideals, to promote tolerance and educate a new generation about one of the bleakest points in the competition's history.

COLD by night and blisteringly hot under the midday sun, the border crossing between Libya and Egypt at Salloum has become a bleak stopping point for Western journalists seeking a way to eastern Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi, six hours' drive to the west.

But for anyone who believes as I do in the ultimate beneficence of Pax Americana, in the values of the trans-Atlantic world and in the critical importance of American credibility on the red lines it draws for global security and against the horrors of gassing, the British vote represents a bleak turning point.

Fair or not, some thought the ultimate message of "The Sopranos" was that people are inherently selfish and can't change, an idea "House of Cards" takes as its bleak starting point -- and where it will end up is anyone's guess (though the Fincherian worldview is not one that allows for a whole lot of optimism, much less redemption).

Instead of making some bleak, caustic points about racism and the base behavior in a P.O.W. camp -- which was the thrust of Norman Jewison's "Soldier's Story and Billy Wilderr's "Stalag 17," two much better movies that plowed the ground before this one -- "War" stolidly spells things out.

On the other side of the coin, however, comes bleak statistics pointing to a noticeable lack of support from Black consumers in keeping those Black-owned businesses afloat.