Sentence examples for bleak turn from inspiring English sources

The critic Jan Kott describes the bleak turn of events as a punishment from the gods.

People often ask why the Roots' albums have taken such a bleak turn, Questlove said, but the answer is all around them.

But in a news conference on Thursday, the authorities said the Reillys' marriage had grown strained and taken a bleak turn in recent months.

The outlook for New York City's economy and its main engine, the financial services industry, had already taken a bleak turn before the sudden failure of Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest firm on Wall Street.

A bleak turn of events would lead to the abrupt cancellation of Colin Ritman's highly-anticipated game, Nohzdyve, and the end of Stefan Butler's promising career.

It looked like a perfect comeback story, a narrative of hope and survival in the face of terrible odds, but then, the tale of the African rhino took a bleak turn.

But for anyone who believes as I do in the ultimate beneficence of Pax Americana, in the values of the trans-Atlantic world and in the critical importance of American credibility on the red lines it draws for global security and against the horrors of gassing, the British vote represents a bleak turning point.

It was a frenzy of activity that continued until events took a far bleaker turn with the sudden death of Sandra while Kitaj himself was away in America at the bedside of his mother who was also terminally sick.

He ends the essay not with a cheering paean to human resilience, but with a bleak new turn of events.

Last year's bleak season turned downright ghastly on Dec. 1, when linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend and then drove to the Chiefs' training complex and shot himself in front of the team's coach and general manager.

It's poignant as it's maybe one of the few scenes viewers can directly relate to in a world of bleak despondency turned horribly upside down: perpetually grey skies, the rumble of earthquakes underfoot, distant fires roaring on the horizon and a total absence of organic life.