Sentence examples for bleak room from inspiring English sources

A man sits at a bare table in a bleak room, a wine bottle at hand.

And his bleak room of whitewash interrupted by patches of damp is now decorated with his lino prints – which is fantastic".

Once a week I sat in a bleak room and explained to a woman called Lucy that my condition was connected to an obsessive desire to be the best.

Corean struggled to explain even to herself how a bleak room separated from the outside world by three layers of razor wire, two sturdy gates, motion detectors, and a phalanx of armed guards (one of them assigned to sit beside her and Steven) had become a place where she could relax.

These include the 1972 "And for Today... Nothing," enacted over two weeks in an empty London apartment, where Mr. Brisley lay in a bathtub of offal-laced water, and the 1978 "Between the Wall and the Floor," executed in 1978 in a bleak room in Dublin, where he did battle with one suspended sculptural contraption while, hanging naked, from another.

Perhaps to underline the gravity of his predicament, a young priest visited his "extraordinarily bleak" room.

It lay behind the "Cells", her series of installations in the early 1990s in which small, bleak rooms were viewed through half-opened doors or dirty windows.

If she wasn't dressing the girls for an appointment, on the way to an appointment or on the bus ride home from one, Lolli was sitting in bleak rooms crowded with women and children in the long yawn of waiting to be seen.

The Bleak Hotel A man is staring out the window of a bleak hotel room.

Midafternoon, Jason sat in a recliner in the bleak, boxy room.

Then, lo and behold, you're in a bleak common room, the sort of place used for supervised recreational activities.