Local residents particularly objected to the garage plan, calling it a bleak structure that would wall off the neighborhood from the commuter train.
The main question that springs to mind is - why? Heller is a fine writer, fashioning her material with supreme confidence: the novel is funny, bleak, superbly structured, and full of the satisfyingly tight phrases that distinguish her journalism, but the fundamental point is somehow elusive.
Grosvenor, an urban refuge of social service and education programs housed in a bleak rectangular structure that looks more like a compact jail, had been brought into discussions over how to spend $205,000 in amenity financing that had been promised by a developer constructing a high-rise condominium at 84th Street and Broadway.
Councillor Mark Coker, cabinet member for transport, said although the replacement car park would be smaller, it would be "an open, more welcoming space for customers than the rather bleak and gloomy structure".
In counterpoint with their message of communal hope, Oasis sang plangently and with Morrissey-esque gloom about loneliness and the desire to escape from a humdrum town where prospects were bleak and the old structures of social unity job, club, estate, union were being decimated by a neoliberal project of class annihilation.
A built structure might be inhumane in that it is bleak or uninhabitable, though it does not follow that the structure itself bears inhumane values.
From the outside, the grim, Depression-era brick structure conjures up images of a bleak, institutional existence.
However, the lack of participation and persistence in undergraduate mathematics within and after students' first-year course(s) is painting a bleak picture, one in which the revised course structure in this study attempts to address.
Faced with such bleak numbers, British Airways decided it had to remake its fare structure.
The line runs through bleak inner-city Baltimore, where cramped terraced houses have boarded-up doors and windows and some structures that are cracked, crumbling and abandoned.
However, in 1937, no one knew how to go about solving the structure of such a protein; indeed, there was widespread belief that the prospects for success were bleak and the goal was scarcely realistic, if not unattainable.
