Sentence examples for slightly bleak from inspiring English sources

The rocky terrace of Alex Paddocks overlooks a broad, beautiful, and slightly bleak valley.

It's surrounded by grass but also by a box hedge probably 25ft high, giving it a slightly bleak, impenetrable feel.

That was the slightly bleak endorsement offered by Stephen Young, a retired business-owner looking on when the senator launched his campaign in Central, the blink-and-you-miss-it country town where he grew up.Mr Graham's ability to project gloom about American weakness in a nasty world resonates with a lot of folks, Mr Young and his wife Linda explained.

And it is indeed difficult to warm to, let alone empathise with, a character who endlessly considers his own state of mind, but "parr[ies] and ducks, like an outclassed boxer" when he is forced to confront himself emotionally.And yet there are scenes of intense warmth and wit, and these stand out on the slightly bleak horizon of the novel like shafts of sunlight.

Last season, Maria held her show in the deco splendour of the Palm Court of the Waldorf hotel opposite Somerset, which perhaps suited the clothes better; the slightly bleak Somerset House tents play better for very theatrical clothes than for such wearable ones, I think, so it was a little like watching a great clay court tennis pro play a match on grass.

A closer look gives a slightly bleaker picture: According to latest data from the Magazine Publishers Association, between Q1 2013 and Q1 2012, Forbes Magazine (the print version only) lost 16% in ads revenues ($50m to $42m).

But André Cédillot is looking at the future in slightly bleaker terms.

A closer inspection of the song's lyrics entails a slightly bleaker interpretation.

The forecast for the future is only slightly less bleak.

At 18, Gisli moved to Norway, only slightly less bleak, and spent five years drumming in punk band Pornshot.

And the future might just, with a little luck, be slightly less bleak than the rubble of Nice suggests.