Sentence examples for bleak sensibility from inspiring English sources

Not just because of its ugly crimes, but also thanks to a bleak sensibility.

Read in sequence -- or even in punctuated immersions -- they disclose a singularly bleak sensibility refracting itself in all directions with imagistic inventiveness and, often, a darkly comic brio.

Sometimes this shades-of-gray style gets dreary (his range must be about half an octave), but more often the washed-out melodies match his bleak sensibility.

Given Mr. Solares's dark subject matter here, it's fair to wonder if he might be offering a sly homage to Cormac McCarthy, whose neo-noir border novels, like "No Country for Old Men," play just as well south of the Rio Grande as to its north and are imbued with a similarly bleak sensibility.

Every time I think I understand how bleak Matt Weiner's comedic sensibility is, I soon realize I've underestimated him.

Her sensibility is often bleak, but the detail in her fiction can whip it alive.

But the LSO seemed at odds with their imperious visitor, their minds and sensibilities seemingly bent on the bleak symphonic task still lying ahead.

It's a sensibility that arguably chimes with the bleak amorality of what's known as "road rap" – as opposed to grime, or UK hip-hop, all of which have distinct styles, musically and lyrically.

In all its bleak cynicism, "Liliom" seems a million miles from the sensibilities of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

The world Clement is describing may be the bleak reality of a country that has such softness of sensibility, it's little wonder it has been so abused.

But that tragic sensibility was always placed within a progressive narrative — even at very bleak moments, he's said that every single generation is making progress, getting better.