In the bleak winter of 1946 she wrote a handful of letters that show how deep the damage had been.
They met in the coarse bleak winter of 62-63 before Dylan became famous, when he came to the UK to film a drama (long since erased).
This 50-year survey, going back to 1955, covers the several phases of his art, from the bleak "Winter Landscape" of 1955, still influenced by the New York School, to collages and relief paintings of the early 1990's (a stroke in the mid-90's curtailed his ability to work with his hands).
Then, one bleak winter morning in 2012, I awoke in Brooklyn to discover a string of missed-call notifications on my phone.
For some it inevitably brought to mind a bleak winter day in 1968 when, out of the blue, helicopter-borne Israeli commandos landed on the old airport and blew up 13 passenger jets, almost the entire fleet of the national carrier.
(Of his marriage he says, "Maybe our wedding was just a distraction," later adding, "not a denial, just a trick of life, like a Christmas in the middle of a bleak winter or television in a cancer ward").
More than 1,000 Soviet specialists have chosen to stay in Iraq to avoid a bleak winter in their country compounded by severe food shortages, Eastern European diplomats said today.
On a bleak winter day in Trenton, New Jersey, Dan Coleman, an ex-F.B.I. agent who retired last July, because of asthma, scoffed at the idea that a C.I.A. agent was now having compunctions about renditions.
With the economy's prospects brightening after a bleak winter, Federal Reserve policymakers are increasingly signaling they are ready to nudge up a key interest rate next month.
