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Perhaps, when things are particularly bleak, you search harder and grasp tighter to any rays of sunshine.

Sonia was bleak ("You fall in love. You get hurt") and Naomi was brutal: last night she threw Sonia's belongings out of the window in a black binbag, which never bodes well.

I also love Beckett's letters because no matter how bleak you're feeling, Sam is always feeling worse.

"I would have thought you could hazard a guess," ran the gag, "that if someone supports nuclear weapons, if your view of existence is so bleak you're prepared to help with the extermination of the entire northern hemisphere, that kind of suggests depression, don't you?" Cue outrage, which culminated – after a period of silence – with Corbyn himself implying (extremely mild) disapproval of the joke.

After all, for most of the population, life in 13th-century Italy or France was bleak: You spent it tilling land you didn't own to produce crops you'd never eat, while rarely bathing and doing your best to avoid the Plague.

I think we had ordered in, so I hadn't even gone outside to get it, and it just seemed really bleak, you know?

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To put the matter at its bleakest: you cannot fact-check a cat.

So if you're a hopeful person you'll see a lot of hope, and if you're a bleak person you'll see a complete hopelessness at the end".

It's not as bleak as you think if you follow my rules.

Chances are your circumstances are not as bleak as you think, even if you have much less money stored away than planned, financial advisers assure.

You can think it is bleak and you can't see.

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