Sentence examples for like bleak from inspiring English sources
That may sound like bleak news for artists, but there are advantages to writing poetry with the exhilarating integrity that Marie Ponsot demonstrates in this new book.
In a densely plotted novel like Bleak House they alert us to the unexpected connections between apparently distant characters that the novel investigates.
Never mind half-term holidays and the clocks going back; it felt like bleak midwinter here yesterday afternoon until a football match broke out in the final 10 minutes of normal time.
"Winterreise," completed in 1827, is Schubert's setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller; the songs are generally described with adjectives like "bleak" and "despondent," tracing a tale of lost love.
Like Bleak Expectations, it's a good-natured raspberry directed at dour Dickens adaptations and throws in every possible motif including an old crone in a dusty wedding dress and a new and surprising use for a festive goose.
If you know the British filmmaker Mike Leigh's work — early and later titles like "Bleak Moments," "Naked" and "Vera Drake" — you may find yourself watching his most recent movie, "Happy-Go-Lucky," with mounting unease, a tinge of dread.
Don't get me wrong, I like a bleak, despairing cry in the dark as much as the next existentially anguished, post-film consumer, but there is a great deal to be said for delivering the bad news on screen with a pratfall.
I started to like how bleak and enveloping it sounded, how that whole album felt like heavy clouds and bleary eyes and escapism via little snatches of erotica, Z-grade horror movies and cyberpunk sci-fi references that I didn't understand, but would reveal themselves upon each listen.
The likes of Bleak House, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations or Persuasion would certainly be more of a challenge, and I don't think children would find them tedious were teachers to succeed in actually getting students to read them.
The picture painted in The Wire and The House I Live In is bleak, and people don't like to look at bleak pictures.
Some people like it bleak.
