Sentence examples for under bleak from inspiring English sources

It came in a procession of seven hearses that rolled up under bleak gray skies, announced by the tolling of a church bell.

Today, under bleak skies in Sydney Harbor, it descended on the United States skipper Russ Silvestri and his two dozen opponents in the Finn single-handed dinghy class as the second week of the Olympic sailing competition continued.

At a competition in Sweden, Morrison encountered "Have a Good Day!," a supermarket satire from the Lithuanian music-theatre collective Operomanija; Prototype brought the show to New York, where it played at HERE, in a white-walled space under bleak fluorescent light.

The film, playing at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village as the Museum of Modern Art pays tribute to Mr. Tarr with a retrospective, unfolds with grave majesty in empty nighttime streets under bleak wintry skies in an impoverished, unnamed Eastern European town where gathering tensions fed by rumor and intensified by the arrival of a strange, metaphorical circus are nearing explosion.

Such reporting usually comes under bleak headlines of the type we've seen in some recent western media, such as: Constant fear and mob rule in South Africa slum (New York Times); Kenya's decline and fall (The Independent); and Nation in disarray [Guinea-Bissau] holds few hopes for vote (New York Times again).

The top 15 or so banks are currently being stress-tested for how much more capital they might need under bleak economic conditions.

For those who had seen Afghanistan under the bleak rule of the Taliban, the transformation was astonishing.

He wrote his first tweet on 18 January 2012, an image of his flock on the faun green fells under a bleak winter sky.

Mamphela Ramphele, a wise and nonpartisan anti-apartheid activist and academic, attributes this in part to the sense of impotence that infected South Africans — and not just blacks — under the bleak tyranny of apartheid.

On March 4 , 1933 Roosevelt was inaugurated under a bleak sky, at the darkest hour of the Great Depression, with banks across the country failing, hundreds of thousands of homes and farms foreclosed, and a quarter of Americans out of work.

It is under a bleak and ominously grey sky that St Paul and the Broken Bones take the stage on Friday afternoon, a setting that seems somewhat incongruous with this seven-piece soul band from Birmingham, Alabama.