Sentence examples for bleak version from inspiring English sources

A really, really, really, really bleak version of Miranda.

The dark comedy series was described as a "really bleak version of Miranda" and "a gloriously rude update of Bridget Jones".

A year earlier, with Lilli Palmer and Noel Coward in Coward's Suite In Three Keys, Worth won an Evening Standard award - as if to prove herself in drawing rooms - but she was glad to get back to Brook's bleak version of Seneca's Oedipus, at the Old Vic in 1968.

The incredible weather here may soften my opinions, but after having spent the weekend with the last hundred pages of Knausgaard's first volume of My Struggle in a bleak version of "How Clean Is Your House?", this is the kind of novel I entirely welcome.

Tennessee Williams's original is rarely produced today, and Mr. Page says it's the sparest and bleakest version.

This black comedy, set on a US army base in Germany at the fall of the Berlin wall, "is a much bleaker version of..

In all the narratives that the Arab revolts represent — dignity, democracy, rights and social justice — many Christians hew to a far bleaker version of events: that their time may be running out.

The Maurice Pialat film "L'enfance nue" (1968), a bleaker version of Truffaut's "400 Blows," was also an influence; its protagonist, like Sam, is an orphan with nowhere to go.

That is true whether that psychology is irrational exuberance of the sort that four years ago he warned was infecting the stock market or the bleaker version that accompanied the pricking of the technology-stock bubble in recent months.

Gilbert herself played a much bleaker version of repose in "Roseanne," when her character, Darlene, hit a period of teen-age angst, developing a sudden habit of spending hours on end watching television.

Money, migrant labour and the pilgrimage to Mecca have spread far and wide the Saudis' bleak desert version of Islam.