Sentence examples for bleak scores from inspiring English sources

New York's bleak scores could prompt unease among elected officials who have staked their reputations on rising test scores.

Prokofiev usually adds a touch of acid to a program, but after Mr. Ruders's bleak score the Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (Op. 63) seemed an explosion of cheerfulness.

Throughout this gritty, bleak and astringent score, it is impossible to resist the sheer dramatic thrust and entrancing harmonic richness of the music.

The study, conducted by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, pointed to bleak disparities in test scores on four fronts: between black and Hispanic children and white children; between poor and wealthy students; between Americans and students abroad; and between students of similar backgrounds educated in different parts of the country.

There are also environmental implications, as Adams indicates in a brief, bleak note in the score: "Life on this earth first emerged from the sea.

With Elena Kats-Chernin's score of bleak, sawing stings and fairground accordion adding it own atmospheric gloss, The 3 Dancers is a clever, absorbing response to Picasso's painting, pitched between carnivalesque energy and a dark dance of death.

This is an incredibly bleak tale and the score needed to reflect that.

This elegant Daphne du Maurier costume drama is heavy on atmosphere, with a melodramatic score and romantically bleak black-and-white Cornwall scenery.

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

The scoring standards were still bleak.

But Romo found Austin for a 34-yard score and things look bleak for the defending Super Bowl champions.