Even if the book proved too inconsistent, it created exactly the bleak atmosphere I was looking for with this word.
It is this rising unemployment which helps explain the scramble by President Jiang Zemin and his cohorts since early this summer to find growth, if necessary at the expense of longer-term structural reform.It is impossible to know exactly how bleak things are.
The show, created by Mitch Hurwitz, "was such a big win for me," Mr. Bateman said, "because beforehand things weren't bleak exactly, but they were quiet".
Stanley praises the series saying "It's not clear exactly why this bleak series is so exhilarating and binge-worthy.
When I say Rialto is bleak, I mean exactly that: Hopeless.
'You've got to love just - being alive.'" Bleak fare, and the abiding preoccupations with greed, selfishness and cruelty (particularly to children) don't exactly cheer it up.
June 10 was another bleak and overlooked anniversary, as it was exactly two years ago that the news was announced that the first three prisoners had died at Guantánamo.
Using story after story of street abuse and sales, it presents a bleak picture of a drug that has actually done exactly what it is supposed to do when it is provided medically: reduce harm related to opioid misuse.
Indeed, styles determine fights, and no two fighters are exactly the same, but, should Evans flop this weekend, the future will look bleak for everybody else without a title in the 205 lb weight division.
One of the bleaker ironies, she suggests, is that she now knows exactly how that panic feels.
