Sentence examples for bleak reflection from inspiring English sources

HOTELS In the bad old days, Moscow's hotels were the bleak reflection of Soviet society.

Mixed in with controversial statements recently uttered by the likes of Michael Caine and Charlotte Rampling, it's a bleak reflection of views likely to be all too common amongst Academy members.

The song that became My Way was originally released in 1968 as Comme d'Habitude by singer-songwriter Claude François as a bleak reflection on the breakup of his affair with Gall.

While our world can be a dark place, a bleak reflection of what we wish it to be, it is also full of heroes.

Pappano and the LSO certainly played their part in the unremitting focus of the Shostakovich, the winds interweaving eloquently with the solo violin in its bleak reflections.

The play draws its energy from vaudevillian routines, literate humor and the occasional bleak, blunt reflection, but also from reduction, an unlikely source that is linked to its elusive meanings.

Mr. Cavalli's popularity flies in the face of predictions that the spring 2002 collections, to be unveiled throughout this month and next, will be somber, the reflection of a bleak global economy.

The original ending of Dumbo, which left our big-eared star still working at the circus, might have seemed happy at the time; but on reflection, it's pretty bleak.

To this day, many Poles mutter about the poor quality and ungainliness of the buildings: gray, soulless reflections of an equally bleak era.

Saw player David Coulter sets the pace with a surprisingly affecting Silent Night, which he later follows up with an eerie In the Bleak Midwinter, but these are rare moments of reflection.

If it's a true reflection of our society it's a bleak one.