Sentence examples for cool bleak from inspiring English sources

(DeLillo writes supremely well about sport; his underrated 1972 novel about American Football, End Zone, is a cool, bleak classic of that curious genre, the sports novel).

Aside from a glib putdown in the New York Sun — the critic called the works "cool, bleak, faceless, and mildly professional" — there were few reviews; Rauschenberg's long career seems to have made criticism irrelevant.

The cellmates also played chess, and Mr Hewetson made himself a set of paper cards to play solitaire, despite warnings from his fellow prisoners that this could lead to a spell in "the cooler" – a bleak, particularly icy room.

With Duane Schuler's lighting scheme reinforcing every poetic shadow, the result is cool and clean, bleak and dull, ultimately sterile.

Contributing to the bleak economics of rice farming, last summer's cool and rainy weather is making this fall's rice crop Japan's worst in a decade.

When the restaurant opened, it had a cool Scandinavian feel with polished floors, white walls and bleak black-and-white photographs of Austrian castles by Alexander Vethers.

This week's Poetry Pairing matches "Bleak Weather," a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox with "A Cool Glide Through Maine" by Eric Hansen.

Because of Mr. Louie's cool reportorial eye, however, the effect is less sexy than bleak and tawdry.

On the one hand, the video is austere and starkly bleak; on the other hand, it emanates a cool and proto-punk feel that's gorgeously surreal.

Autumn can sometimes feel like a bleak time - the days get shorter, the air becomes cooler, and the woods are stripped bare, as the trees hunker down for the first winter frosts.

He is confidently played here by the lean, silver-haired Philip Goodwin with a dry Yankee twang and a mostly cool sense of composure that occasionally turns fierce during the play's bleaker passages.