Sentence examples for bleak scheme from inspiring English sources

Against the trillions in debt created by the Bush tax cuts, the highway spending differences -- $10 billion a year at most -- are penny ante in the bleak scheme of things.

There is Balázs, a Hungarian personal trainer, who travels to London with a client and that client's sexy girlfriend, Emma; Balázs has been hired as the muscle for a high-end but extremely bleak prostitution scheme that will make nightly use of Emma's services.

Even before taking into account whatever fantastically expensive plan eventually emerges to help rescue the financial system from Wall Street's long-running pyramid schemes, the economic and fiscal picture is bleak.

"Very bleak".

Bleak stuff.

Bleak, even.

Bleak architecture?

Rather bleak.

Too bleak?

Others were similarly bleak.

Bleak notes intrude.