Sentence examples similar to bleak smile from inspiring English sources
"bleak smile" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe a smile that appears forced or without joy, for example, "He tried to force a bleak smile on his face."
Ms. Finkle musters a smile as bleak as the Diane Arbus poster on the wall behind her (in her spare time, she aspires to Arbus-level gravity with her jaundiced eye and Nikon FE2).
A wary, sharp-eyed customer, Albee is expert at putting a bright smile on his bleak vision — a vision that began with his birth, in 1928.
He laughed, and Sam smiled, and the bleak sidewalk was transformed into a vibrant cafe, with palm trees and sunshine and drinks all around.
He will be the savior who made your child smile in the bleakest hours and there is nothing more valuable than that.
I've seen happy, smiling people fall to bleak silence, and ruined entire parties, just by putting this video on.
And how bleak can a piece really be with the smile and voice and legs of Sutton Foster vibrating at its center?
She dreaded the smiling pretense even more than the bleak truth.
The results are messy, brilliant, sobering, even bleak — the final scene is a gut punch delivered with a queasy smile — but Jordan Peele isn't here just to play.
He smiles as if storing it away for his next bleak effort.
That's a really good line," he smiles, as if it's going into his next bleak effort.
Independent film has always had a bleak streak: a desire to tell complicated stories that don't end with everyone smiling is part of what sparked the indie movement (now pushing 40) in the first place.
