Sentence examples for this bleak truth from inspiring English sources

He did not sound like a man who would be taking any prisoners, but rather one who had embraced this bleak truth: when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

That, a number of coaches conceded, is the bleak truth.

LONDON — The bleak truth is that most design isn't very good.

As for Lelouch and his losers, how could that director have foreseen the bleak truth that faces us here now?

She dreaded the smiling pretense even more than the bleak truth.

Whether it's Helena realising the bleak truth about the Proletheans' reproductive programme, Cosima confronting Delphine with the words, "This is my lab, my body.

They realise that they are the enviable ones, who have not yet had to face the bleak truth that, when someone you love dies (or, yet more sadly, suffers dementia) you still go on loving, but it is an emotion without its proper object, like hopefulness when there is nothing to hope for, or anxiety when there is nothing to fear.

That's the bleak truth of the matter.

This is a bleak truth, but not a bleak book – it's far too smart, readable and joyously achieved for that.

But, like the inevitability of death, disease and loss, this is a bleak truth we might as well ignore, having little or no ability to amend it.

The bleak truth is that there is not that much that can be done outside Africa itself.