Sentence examples for bleak setting from inspiring English sources

Comedia Tempio, 10 years older, is well worn in, its bleak setting a labyrinth of hidden places and dark corners.

Still, there's a lot to like here, and the film's bleak setting and empathetic tone add interest to what could have been a by-the-numbers affair.

"In this rude and bleak setting," Johnson thinks, "hard men want nothing more than to sit as like death, and walk away with their likeness".

Rewald is right that the elements of these beguiling pictures "evoke theatrical props"; the Dresden version of "Moonwatchers" inspired Samuel Beckett's bleak setting of "Waiting for Godot".

And he's serious about all this American Gothic stuff: His album "The Hill" was an appropriately bleak setting of 18 poems from Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology".

Mr. Boetticher (pronounced BET-i-ker) was partial to the barren, rocky landscape around Lone Pine, Calif., between Sequoia National Park and Death Valley, as the bleak setting for his westerns.

Robert C O'Brien's Z For Zachariah is incredibly bleak, set after a nuclear holocaust, where a male survivor attempts to force a young girl to marry him.

He cites a Heritage Lottery Fund report from 2014, which produced a bleak set of figures.

"They really are faced with a bleak set of alternatives," Mr. Mann said.

That may well be the IASB's aim.On November 26th, Japan's life insurers posted a bleak set of interim reports.

Last week, Lyn Gardner laid out a considerable, bleak set of misgivings about Arts Council England's newly announced artistic assessment panels.