Sentence examples for bleak scene from inspiring English sources

This bleak scene is playing out at scores of day laborer sites across the region.

In a modern context, the figures still paint a bleak scene.

His voice rising over the bleak scene of horror was one of tremulous beauty.

One oil by Margaret Crenson depicts a worn street in Schenectady; another is a bleak scene of salt mounds piled along railroad tracks.

When one of the Williams sisters wins a major title, the wattage of her stardom helps brighten what is otherwise a bleak scene.

A black sofa pokes up from its murky waters; a landfill decorates its western bank; and beside another heap of refuse, a stray bra hangs lazily from the branch of a tree, lending a comic touch to the bleak scene.

The photos have a distance that makes bleak scenes and industrial architecture look beautiful.

In terms of models, Don DeLillo is a high standard for humor, and for the necessity of humor even in bleak scenes and histories.

A fuller selection of the photos, which have a distance to them that lends a strange and quiet beauty to the bleak scenes and industrial architecture, appears on the Lens blog.

But for Bob Ryder, a therapy aide, such bleak scenes are relics, like the nurses' peaked caps and the white uniforms and black ties that male staff members wore when he joined the hospital in 1976.

(Similarly bleak scenes from early expeditions are on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts in a yearlong show, "Arctic Visions: 'Away Then Floats the Ice-Island.' ") Dr. Priester now focuses on books related to writers from his hometown, Davenport, Iowa, including the novelists George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell.