Sentence examples for bleak sense from inspiring English sources
In Magadan ("I must get out of this place", he writes), a bleak sense of the urban Homo sovieticus emerges, defined by Hugo-Bader as "passive, suffering from the syndrome of silence as well as travelling companion syndrome".
Larkin had such an acute, anarchic and bleak sense of humour, or of the comic, at least – the comical and the humorous not being always synonymous – that we might be forgiven for taking him at his own face value.
The title phrase had been used earlier by Tennyson in this bleak sense in Maud: "Long dead!
(Indigenous female patient, aged 40 49 years)" For many Indigenous participants, the eventual "acceptance" of dialysis was accompanied by a somewhat bleak sense of resignation described graphically by one Indigenous patient: " P: Well, a lot of them know they're stuck here for life until they die, you know.
Sometimes it's a dark, bleak, black sense of humor and that has paid off for us.
It turns out to be a farewell performance in the bleakest sense.
Instead, a bleaker sense emerges of an underclass whose members are certainly angry and willing to justify theft by some sort of resentment towards the rich, but who think the "rich" are local corner shopkeepers, or the faceless owners of their local sports shoe store.
One misses the slightly warped first-person observations of John-John the traveller, which gave Pig Iron its bleak, offbeat sense of humour.
With the state's financial outlook growing bleaker, a sense that a tax increase for the wealthy is inevitable seems to be taking hold among lawmakers in Albany, where many Democrats have expressed support for such a step.
Yet there is a bleak and growing sense that they could.Rebel fighters less sympathetic to extreme Islamism are struggling.
About his growing up in Newark--which was rough, but in no sense bleak; being a Sergeant/ Jump Master in the 82nd Airborne during the Korean War, the jumps that had gone well, and those that didn't; hand to hand combat in Korea, in pitch black darkness; his return home to a hateful Jim Crow South; his emergence in Bergen County; his marriage; his children, his fights for civil and human rights.
