Sentence examples for dark bleak from inspiring English sources

A dark, bleak house described as though it was a person.

The contrast with dark bleak mornings and the onset of night in mid-afternoon, all horizons closed and everything muffled, could not be sharper.

I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it".

He joins a growing chorus of talkers, pundits, analysts and journalists who feel it is their duty to remind us of the dark, bleak soul of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The proprietors and patrons of the Yankee Tavern, at 161st Street and Gerard Avenue in the shadow of the stadium, had been waiting through the dark, bleak days of winter for Tuesday's gold rush.

The trees, however, were bare, creating dark, bleak silhouettes against an anaemic winter sky.

This half is darker, bleaker, uglier; more Wonderland meets Star 80.

Now, in post-Brexit despair, all I want is the darkest, bleakest, tangliest crime: bales of it.

And for "White Collar," "we don't want to go into the darker, bleaker world of thievery," Ms. Hammer said, so the scripts present Mr. Bomer's character, Neal Caffrey, as much more Robin Hood than white-collar crook.

Inevitably, the high comedy with which the novel opens eventually modulates into a darker, bleaker humour, and movingly, it's the tragic death of rear-gunner Snowden which reminds us that Heller's merriment is the kind of gallows laughter that's inspired by the horror of war.

Author Mike McQuay must have read the script but not seen the movie; where most novelizations are the weak byproduct of studio marketing, this one lays out a much darker, bleaker, far more hopeless story.