Sentence examples for bleak reputation from inspiring English sources

At 23, Miller also represents an urgent attempt by international gymnastics to shed its bleak reputation as a sport of inarticulate pixies and eating disorders, one in which some athletes reportedly took so-called brake drugs to inhibit the onset of puberty.

LaFleur also makes sure to show me that Detroit is far more complex than its bleak reputation suggests.

While Southeast Asia has a notoriously bleak reputation for access to safe abortions, the Philippines the only predominantly Catholic country in the region—has long coupled this with tales of abject desperation.

There's an old adage that "Saskatoon's got nothing but hookers and hockey players," but despite the place having a bleak reputation, there's also a simmering underbelly of pure rock n' roll party debauchery at a level that only people from backwater towns can understand.

However, he soon found life at Dartmoor as bleak as its reputation.

His pseudonym of "Phiz" was adopted in order to harmonize with Dickens' "Boz," and it was by his work for Dickens (especially in Pickwick, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit, and Bleak House) that his reputation was made.

If it is, that's only because the playwrights and filmmakers in that part of the world have a reputation for reflecting bleak universal truths.

The younger ones, unaware of Mr. Halbritter's lightning-rod reputation, dwell on their bleak economic surroundings.

New Zealand has a reputation for being pretty bleak.

Not to be confused with the Elizebethan philosopher, Francis Bacon was a conceptual painter with a reputation for capturing particularly bleak impressions of humanity.

Both Oldham and Callahan established their reputations more than a decade ago as bleak, lo-fi minimalists spinning folk music into awkward shapes.