Sentence examples for this bleak reality from inspiring English sources

And yet, despite this bleak reality, some talk persists of silver linings: less cash to spend means less materialism, a real change to "the definition of living well," as Jim Taylor, a vice president of Harrison Group, a market research firm in Waterbury, Conn., told The Times as the big banks melted down in the fall of 2008.

Despite this bleak reality, significant progress appears to have been made towards legislation in the education sphere.

But the feeling of despondence we share when confronted with this bleak reality, that we are somehow hopeless in its face, is also a product of capitalism.

Along the way, Volpato assigns blame to the "Italian media" that "exacerbate[s] this bleak reality by presenting a picture of women that is incomprehensible to the rest of Europe".

This bleak reality has prompted Ava DuVernay to join a list of black Hollywood influencers who have decided to take a stance by sharing their stories along with those of police brutality victims.

Couple that with the fact that the average Inuit salary is $10,000 less than the Canadian average and you get this bleak reality: for many Inuit families, a year's worth of groceries costs almost an entire year's salary.

But this is the bleak reality of addiction treatment who can actually afford to go somewhere like The Priory?—and the NHS provided a kind, unfalteringly dependable service that I owe my life and sanity to. .

But this is the bleak reality of addiction treatment – who can actually afford to go somewhere like The Priory? – and the NHS provided a kind, unfalteringly dependable service that I owe my life and sanity to. .

To Obama, this brought home the bleak reality that, as a Democratic nominee, he was going to be typecast, fairly or not.

"This research brings home the bleak reality of gender inequality at work in the UK.

The one advantage of this room is that you – and you are drunk at this point, absolutely ruined on port or some other west London drink because you have to be drunk to blot out the bleak reality of this room – you can, in your drunken state, lean out of bed and hit the sink with a perfect red rainbow of vomit.