Sentence examples for downright bleak from inspiring English sources

Well, I had no idea that "Glee" could go from depressing to downright bleak in a 42-minute span.

Over the following decades, conditions varied from bleak to downright hellish.

Last year's bleak season turned downright ghastly on Dec. 1, when linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend and then drove to the Chiefs' training complex and shot himself in front of the team's coach and general manager.

These are often accomplished, hard-working people, many of whom endured years of soul-crushing jobs, or some of whom maybe were lucky and had work they enjoyed, even loved, but who now can't get their emails returned or resumes viewed, and whose prospects for the next 10, 20, 30 years are bleak if not downright non-existent.

The data, he said, "offers scant consolation for the peripheral economies, where the recession is deepening and whose economic fortunes look bleak at best and downright depressing at worst".

The film also emphasizes the world of Krypton before its annihilation — a bleak, utilitarian planet with sophisticated if downright creepy technology — and the treachery of the Kryptonian villain Zod (Michael Shannon), who finds Kal-El on earth.

The final bleak street-corner montage in "Eclipse" is downright apocalyptic.

From Fortune to BusinessWeek to even The New Yorker, the overwhelming view is that the economic picture is bleak and that investors should be wary or downright pessimistic.

Although I respect all ethnic minorities, in the current bleak financial situation in the Balkans, it seems downright irresponsible to use money on such pointless nationalistic games.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?