Sentence examples for bleak settings from inspiring English sources

Most impressive of all is the manner in which Lapcharoensap finds moments of beauty in otherwise bleak settings.

His books were characterized by their bleak settings (western Massachusetts was a favorite); baroque, boisterous prose; and grotesquely comic characters, notably the larger-than-life women who charged through his fictional universe like out-of-control trains.

So addressing societal problems, be it via extended, post-apocalyptic metaphors, or via similarly bleak settings peppered with hope, doesn't sit well with all sci-fi readers.

As before, Wagner uses the bleakest settings to underscore his characters' loneliness and alienation.

A Presidential candidate spends a lot of time in bleak backstage settings: hotel suites, service entrances, greenrooms.

Feeling too many games used bleak, dark settings with monochromatic color schemes, they wanted the island to be a vibrant, believable game world that immersed the player and encouraged exploration.

Instead of using their expertise to make money for shareholders, they would develop tests that were needed urgently by medics, but that no one else saw profits in, tests specifically aimed at picking up quickly those diseases that caused most devastation in the bleakest of settings.

The stories reflect the rhythm and style of Yiddish folktales, and their settings are often bleak.

The series was shot on videotape, like a soap opera, and the settings are as bleak as Neil Burnside's soul.

Charles Dickens used Gothic imagery to highlight the plight of the poor, shifting the characters from creepy castles to grim urban settings in works such as Bleak House while Bram Stoker's Dracula acted as a warning about wanton women.

Further adding to this possibly devastating effect of smoking, the prospect of a potential benefit from using IGRAs as part of the TB control strategy in low resource settings seem, if possible, even more bleak.