Sentence examples for bleak reading from inspiring English sources
'bleak reading' is a correct and usable expression in written English
It is an idiom that means to look at a situation in a negative light, often with a sense of pessimism. For example, "The financial forecast for the coming year is a bleak reading, so we need to make sure we plan for the worst."
Twenty-one months before the next presidential election, the latest polling data makes bleak reading for the President.
Pessimism about the sector was reinforced by weaker-than-expected economic data, including a bleak reading on unemployment on Friday.
To anyone who believes that diversity in education is a compelling goal in itself (like that noted radical Justice Kennedy), it makes for bleak reading.
The results of the world's largest CEO sustainability study make bleak reading with strong evidence that the journey towards business transformation has ground to a halt.
Pitt's tour through hell can make for bleak reading, but the endless dehumanization is always tempered by his improbable love for the country -- and indeed for Islam.
The recent Church of England report – which looked at how young Britons relate to Christianity today – must have made bleak reading for its publishers.
The most disturbing thing about this study (a bleak read, but one that at least you can read: unlike the other academic research I've cited here, this study is available in full from CNN) isn't that victims, or even remorseful aggressors, aren't turning to adults.
"Right now, the economic climate for artists in this country looks particularly bleak," read a report in the British newspaper The Guardian, which started a Culture Cuts blog in January to track how the national government's spending cuts are hitting the arts world.
But these men are so silent in the assessment of their own lives, and this is such a sad and bleak story, that no matter how delicate the touch and how subtle the undercurrents, it makes for a sad, bleak read.
What accounted for the dramatic change in circumstances between Senator Levin's quite bright portrayal of trends in Afghanistan -- as offered in part to them by General Stanley McChrystal's tour guides -- and McChrystal's own quite bleak read just a few months ago?
The table makes altogether bleaker reading for the relegation-threatened visitors, who saw Craig Curran's opener wiped out by Anthony Stokes' 100th top-flight goal in Scottish football as they plummeted to 12th spot.
