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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bleak portrait" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative or grim depiction of a situation, person, or place. For example: "The author painted a bleak portrait of the poverty-stricken town in his novel."
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She paints a devastatingly bleak portrait of 1960s marriage.
More likely this is a generalised – and bleak – portrait of humanity at its best and worst.
HAPPY DAYS Samuel Beckett's bleak portrait of companionship, starring Fiona Shaw.
The three surveys are expected to provide a decidedly bleak portrait of the current housing market.
It was a bleak portrait of a soldier held in deplorable conditions by enemy forces.
The film follows them through street incidents that paint a bleak portrait of a dirty cop.
The publication, released on Thursday, paints a bleak portrait of what it calls the world's most homicidal continent.
It's a bleak portrait, but one that Wilkinson and Pickett insist could be quickly and effectively improved.
A rare study of young adults on the verge of leaving foster care systems reveals a bleak portrait of these 17-year-olds in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa.
American Pastoral, my favourite Philip Roth novel, paints a spectacularly bleak portrait of "the late city of Newark".
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