Sentence examples for pervasive bleakness from inspiring English sources

Those who, like Stravinsky, find an element of sly humor in Hogarth's engravings, may be disappointed by the pervasive bleakness of the new opera.

"The whole movie is a social experiment on a global scale, an ambitious, lavish attempt to see if audiences will turn out for a comic-book epic that goes beyond darkness into Stygian bleakness, grim paradox, endless betrayals and pervasive corruption.

The bleakness astonishes.

Rhoda has earned her bleakness.

His bleakness is bracing.

Goodness, what bleakness.

Their skeletal bleakness is terrifying.

Their "forest" has a post-apocalyptic bleakness.

Pervasive 2011.

Pervasive Mob.

At times the bleakness is overwhelming.