Sentence examples for bleak vista from inspiring English sources

I had an idea about how to spruce up this bleak vista, replicating a cul-de-sac I once lived on, with a green center.

The result, in Benedict Andrews's staging, still means one spends a lot of time staring at the bleak vista of the raised adjoining tables that make up Johannes Schütz's design.

Krapp's ritual of recording a birthday retrospect (a case of many diminishing returns) creates a bleak vista of bitter schadenfreude and Gambon conveys all the grim comedy of this as he chuckles sometimes with, sometimes at the condescension of the mid-lifer towards the taped resolves of a still younger self.

Another foray into the world of cloth-cap underprivilege, it now looks horribly cliché-ridden, although Albert Finney's performance as the young Nottingham factory worker, roaring "Don't let the bastards grind you down!" as he faces up to the bleak vista of his future still retains its abrasive edge.

As Jamal and I smoked cigarettes, we looked out at the bleak vista – gray skies, a burned-down house, trailers.

In a green-and-beige hotel suite overlooking the Detroit River, John Edwards sits cross-legged, his back to the bleak Canadian vista, absently bouncing his stockinged foot.

On the surface, everything was much the same, with bleak country vistas, tilted violet hats, and one serious tragedy that made the tears well.

But, however bleak the immediate vista, not all is lost.

One gallery brings us inside a space meant to evoke the pole itself, with the tent Scott found pitched there by the rival party; it is surrounded by bleak, ghastly, icy vistas.

Iceland leads the world in practically everything per capita, he continued, only partly tongue in cheek: volcanoes, rock stars, whales, puffins, sheep, glaciers, seafood restaurants, vistas of bleak magnificence, thermal pools.

Consequently, the prospect of chemotherapy looks bleak.