Sentence examples for bleak shade from inspiring English sources

The peeling paint on the walls is a bleak shade of unpasteurized cream; the floor of the rehearsal room is littered with backpacks, paperbacks, water bottles and plastic salad containers.

The new look iOS also replaces the blue undercoat on toggle switches with green, and paints some native apps a new shade (like the stocks app now a fittingly bleak shade of black rather than a calming mid-blue), to further highlight how Apple is creeping away from its old mid-blue comfort zone.

Relations with India are peaceful for the first time in two decades and as a result there is no threat of war.In this section Hail to the chief Role reversal The general's dilemma Sihanouk's second reign ends A darker shade of bleak Forging a nation ReprintsBut there are disquieting signs everywhere.

Hence the mounting panic among Cambodia's many royalists.In this section Hail to the chief Role reversal The general's dilemma Sihanouk's second reign ends A darker shade of bleak Forging a nation Reprints Related items Cambodia: The blogger kingAug 19th 2004Sihanouk, who first abdicated in 1955 to become a prince and a politician, survived coups, wars, genocide and self-exile.

So from an early age, Malaysians become accustomed to racial segregation.In this section Hail to the chief Role reversal The general's dilemma Sihanouk's second reign ends A darker shade of bleak Forging a nation ReprintsIf anything, this trend has strengthened recently, to the government's alarm.

Short of money and mourning his best friend's suicide, he was painting bleak indoor scenes in shades of blue.

The temperature had risen to as high as 115 degrees in a bleak region where there is virtually no shade or water.

The effect of these bleak, strip-lit testimonies set against the shaded, shifting, shifty voices of the village is an odd one: like a documentary intercut with a Renoir film.

Although they are situated in an inhospitably hot, unrelentingly bleak, hostile and barren salt plain, devoid of any shade or vegetation, the yellow bubbling springs of Gae'tale act as a magnet for tour operators who bring increasingly more geotourists to the region around the Dallol hot springs and the active volcanoes of Danakil (Edelman and Roscoe 2010; Weber 2015).

It is dusty, bleak and very hot here - the sun beats down day after day, with very little shade for those who live here.

The new mural is painted in grim shades of grey and black, and shows a masked UVF man staring out against a bleak, post-apocalyptic backdrop.