1 They showed me into a bleak waiting room.

2 The medical prognosis was bleak.

3 The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.

4 The future looks bleak for the fishing industry.

5 The outlook for the economy is bleak.

6 The house stands on a bleak, windswept moor.

7 This is a bleak valley.

8 They faced a financially bleak Christmas.

9 Prospects for the industry are extremely bleak.

10 It was a rather bleak and dismal place.

11 The outlook for jobs is bleak.

12 The company's prospects look pretty bleak.

13 The immediate outlook remains bleak.

14 Alberg gave him a bleak stare.

15 Two weeks in hospital seems a bleak prospect.

16 They live in very comfortable/pleasant/drab/bleak surroundings.

17 The moors looked bleak and desolate in the rain.

18 The hills look very bleak in wintertime.

19 The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.

20 The landscape was bleak and bare.

21 Things looked bleak for the future of the factory.

22 The outlook for sufferers from this disease is bleak.

23 The economic outlook is bleak.

24 I glimpsed a bleak future.

25 The bleak ground pullulated with jackrabbits.

26 For small companies(),[] the future looks bleak .

27 The bleak moorland stretched on all sides as far as the eye could see.

28 The future looks bleak.

29 That's probably the most bare and bleak island I've ever had the misfortune to clap eyes on.

30 The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak .

1 They showed me into a bleak waiting room.

2 The medical prognosis was bleak.

3 The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.

4 The future looks bleak for the fishing industry.

5 The outlook for the economy is bleak.

6 The house stands on a bleak, windswept moor.

7 This is a bleak valley.

8 They faced a financially bleak Christmas.

9 Prospects for the industry are extremely bleak.

10 The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak .

11 The company's prospects look pretty bleak.

12 The immediate outlook remains bleak.

13 I glimpsed a bleak future.

14 The report paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of the town.

31 The poem contains a bleak prophecy of war and ruin.

32 The cafe was a bleak, concrete erection with plastic tables and chairs.

33 The characters in his novels inhabit a bleak and hopeless universe.

34 That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen.

35 The film paints a bleak picture of life in the inner city.

36 The report paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of the town.

37 It's a bleak look - out for the coal industry as the number of pit closures increases.

38 I stared through the bleak darkness.

39 It looks pretty bleak for avocado growers here.

40 The bleak landscape wouldn't be different at all.

41 Against this bleak backdrop(), there are rays of hope.

42 His face was as bleak as the frost.

43 The snow-covered coast looked bleak and uninviting.

44 The prospects for the immediate future are bleak.

45 The wild landscape was bleak and bare.

46 The future looked bleak and barren.

47 Many predicted a bleak future.

48 In 1950 the economic picture had looked very bleak.

49 To the outward eye he was austere, even bleak.

50 Sometimes my self-pity billowed into bleak,[] inconsolable despair.

51 His prospects of finding another job are bleak.

52 Many people were facing a financially bleak Christmas.

53 The future looked bleak for the Democratic party.

54 They live in a block of flats on a bleak council estate.

55 A bleak scene outside where it was raining hard, and he felt bleak inside.

56 It may well be this bleak prospect that has spawned the flurry of books about Yiddish in recent years.

57 Maybe in the bleak light of dawn Kathy arranged a pile of twigs on the beach.

58 Now the hard working couple say they face a miserable Christmas and a bleak future.

59 In the background the bleak, craggy, high Andes landscape of Potosi - the mining heartland they are abandoning.

60 Prospects were bleak a year ago at Thornaby Impasse after it failed to secure funding.

61 Myriad receptions and reunions could not disguise the bleak prospects for job hunters.

62 The situation in Ulster in 1985 was as bleak as ever.

63 To discipline your character is to ensure a bright destiny. To pamper your character is to invite a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 

64 If the manor was opulent, the old church was positively bleak.

65 Resorts that are glorious in mid-summer can be bleak and damp in winter as well as pretty dull when the tourist season is over.

66 As he reached the foot of the bleak stone steps, a single gunman opened fire from the parapet around the stairway.

67 It is her aim to rescue children from the bleak existences of orphanages and hospitals.

68 I looked at the bleak, eerie landscape nearing us, so utterly different from the comfortable London world of human construction.

69 Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett play two star-crossed lovers whose future looks bleak after they miss the chance to evacuate.

70 Sears Roebuck bucked the largely bleak holiday sales trend, reporting significant increases in apparel sales.

71 A memory came back to haunt him: the cold-blooded murder of a soldier on a bleak snow-covered hillside.

72 But other days are bleak; a cold, bloodless woman hovers nearby sneering derisively at me.

73 By the Seventies, ballpoints reigned supreme and, once schools allowed their use(), the future for fountain pens looked bleak.

74 The current landscape of the site is bleak, suffering from the effects of intensive farming.

75 On occasion he found himself scanning the lake, throttling down as he passed bleak islands of rock and pine.

76 Prestatyn saw their title ambitions mauled by a bleak home defeat at the hands of St Asaph.

77 Never again would classrooms and indeed whole schools in the West Riding be the bleak, barren places of my boyhood.

78 Prospects of success looked bleak as the opposition scored the first two goals.

79 Prospects for silver were bleak as the year's downward trend looked set to continue.

80 After another mile, Chapel-le-Dale is reached,[http:///bleak.html] an oasis of greenery in a bleak landscape.

81 Does Dickens, for example, overstep the limits of grammar in beginning Bleak House with a series of sentences without main verbs?

82 Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons.

83 And life for their male counterparts may be no less bleak.

84 Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.

85 It was a bleak day when I received the letter, an overcast that would neither snow, rain, nor shine.

86 They say the airlift has brought new hope to people who would otherwise have faced a bleak future.

87 The future for the people of the Aral Sea looks bleak.

88 Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal.

89 Both works end on a possible return, on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state.

90 But, after a bleak opening, prices improved although trading was again thin.

91 I hope, too, that all the parties will adhere to it, however bleak the prospect may sometimes be.

92 Unless the report's recommendations are implemented soon, the future for industry could be very bleak indeed.

93 His marriage has broken up, he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future.

94 Things began to look pretty bleak, from the standpoint of building a career.

95 And doubting her husband on this point, she wondered if Timothy Gedge's future was as bleak as he had forecast.

96 The bleak landscape made Zen think back to his dream, to his own father's fate.

97 Erlich remembered his face from the network news, bleak and uncompromising and shamed, when the announcement was made.

98 Women bleak as Sunday rose-gardens, Or crumpling to puff pastry, and cobwebbed with deaths.

99 Their living conditions were grim, their education was minimal, and their prospects for the future were bleak.

100 But she knew with bleak certainty that, once she'd left it, she would never, ever come back.

101 It will take a masterly spin doctor to conjure upbeat images from a bleak Kansas youth.

102 The lighted shop windows threw a bleak illumination on to the empty pavements.

103 Of course, the picture may not have been quite as bleak as all this might suggest.

104 This use of cats in Peake's bleak Gormenghast Castle may be more than merely an atmospheric description.

105 A bleak untitled work from 1979 has two of these nightmare creatures wrestling to the death, one atop the other.

106 Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 

107 The zoo curators at the conference had news that was almost as bleak.

108 But perhaps this is too gloomy and bleak a view.

109 Here the east coast is bleak and low, and the spume-filled sea lashes the sandy bay.

110 His friendship was a great comfort to me in those bleak days.

110 try its best to gather and create good sentences.

111 Prospects for the weeks and months ahead look about as bleak.

112 He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life.

113 When Ishmael decides to visit the chapel, the weather has suddenly turned cold and bleak and snowing.

114 But behind this bleak image is a country of colour and immense cultural diversity.

115 We should now have a very bleak and bare countryside.

116 The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist's waiting-room.

117 Only an occasional ferry boat makes a last, bleak journey across the river to Birkenhead and the Wirral.

118 Heavy oak doors open into an impenetrable warren of bleak rooms painted in regulation Ministry of Works cream.

119 That is particularly difficult in a recession when the future looks bleak for everyone.

120 Bleak portraits of drug dealers, users, people who have been spent.

121 The contributors here seem instead keen to zoom in on and ferment nihilistic tendencies, through bleak but listenable insights.

122 A pleasant place to live, or would be in summer, but a little bleak and windswept at this time of year.

123 Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement.

124 I wanted to be a newspaper man, but chances looked very bleak in those days for blacks to think about that.

125 He saw the bleak and unpromising moorland gain colour as the grasses grew and the flowers came.

126 It was a bleak farewell. Neither knew if they would ever see each other again.

127 Despite her bleak background and threadbare, Dickensian sartorial habits, she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility.

128 Bleak heights are carpeted in radiant colors; every crack and crevice of a frowning crag blossoms.

129 Beyond them in the grey distance was bleak moorland - the watershed - private land.

130 A horrendous mining disaster had entombed 129 men, and the prospects for their rescue were bleak.

131 But this is a bleak, stoic, death-wish kind of automation, with no hope of being great again.

132 It was a bleak sort of day, with occasional gusts of wind gently rocking the vehicle from side to side.

133 The outlook for this once beautiful natural coast, its mangroves and marine life looks bleak.

134 The island's pretty bleak.

135 If the economy's future looks bleak, Mikhail Gorbachev's future looks no better.

136 Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.

137 Some had other jobs, although their lives tended to be bleak out of tourist season.

138 He gazed around the empty, bleak little room in despair.

139 Shostakovich's seven Alexander Blok settings embrace a bleak, uncomfortable musical language, even when expressing some sort of serenity.

140 Even with that bleak assessment, however, Richard Helms overestimated his true influence.

140 try its best to collect and create good sentences.

141 Facing a financially bleak Christmas, he scrimped together every last penny to afford presents for the four boys.

142 Therefore, in the bleak aftermath of war, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London.

143 It says young people are the future and unless we invest in them, that future looks bleak.

144 And you will find yourself swinging between moods of great confidence to bleak despair.

145 So if you intend to paint a cold, bleak, winter scene, the grey would be an ideal choice.

146 A nine-mile bleak shingle bank - growing each year - separating Orford from the sea.

147 The bleak prospect of the labour camps, slavery in Siberia?

148 The imagery and language help conjure up the bleak picture of death in the two poems.

149 This saw the band in good shape, retaining their traditions of twisted passions and bleak emotional narratives.

150 The room seemed to sum up his life: his future seemed as bleak as this cubicle.

151 If our county councillors don't look after us then the future is bleak.

152 At the turn of the century, things looked very bleak for the Rottweiler.

153 Their warnings came amid bleak forecasts that sterling will plunge to a new low during this week's Tory conference at Brighton.

154 The chief executive said that the company was looking at a bleak future.

155 Bleak future ... former drug addicts say cuts in funding will cost lives.

156 But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight, angry pensioners were facing a bleak future.

157 The bleak wisdom of bare and poor streets were still his commandments.

158 With-profits policyholders: The future looks bleak for the 450,000 with-profits customers.

159 He writes: This seems to be an unnecessarily bleak picture.

160 The Chicago settings are authentically bleak and the plotting subtle and incisive.

161 Like many of the black artists he mimicked, Presley grew up poor and with a seemingly bleak future.

162 To discipline and improve your character is to ensure a a better future, and to pamper your character is to invite a bleak future. Dr T.P.Chia 

163 Despite the lovely summer weather, she felt quite bleak and depressed.

164 Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back on to the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall.

165 The kids are mostly minorities; their bleak, impoverished lives stand in stark contrast to the mansions on their maps.

166 It was a bleak existence, but what struck Joe was how easily he and his fellow internees became accustomed to it.

167 If there is any kind of swing against the Tories, the prospects for Mr Devlin look bleak.

168 In this photograph, which appears in many anthologies, the chair looks bleak in its complete aloneness.

169 Although occasionally humorous, the work presents a bleak view of urban alienation.

170 Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises.

171 As gratified as I was by this display of loyalty and human decency,[http:///bleak.html] the picture was bleak.

172 During this bleak phase of its history the cat became firmly linked in the popular mind with witches and black magic.

173 Buckmaster sat beside him, staring at the bleak snowbound slopes of the moor.

174 a bleak and desolate landscape.

175 One's prospects are bleak.

176 The wind blew bleak as winter - all round was solitary.

177 Mr Rice and his factory are an improbable splash of colour on the bleak cityscape.

178 As a place of sanctuary it is pretty bleak. The camp is nothing more than a bunch of decrepit and disused mud huts on the edge of a baking hot, dusty plain.

179 Friday's bleak March nonfarm payrolls data became the latest economic data point that the stock market shrugged off, leading some analysts to say the economic damage could not possibly get much worse.

180 For those who grew up in Soviet era, Gagra was a precious refuge of pleasure inside communism's bleak expanse. Now its ruins are a memento mori of poetic deterioration.

181 Three daughters of an Irish-born clergyman grew up at Haworth parsonage, in Yorkshire. This remote region of bleak moors greatly influenced the imagination of the sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

182 Commander Tazewell Shepard , the naval aide , gave a report , precise and bleak , on the beachhead.

183 Inside was a bleak room of concrete and calcimine and unshaded light.

184 Her book paints a bleak picture of the problems women now face.

185 They are hastening back to their warm wooden dovecote earlier than usual perhaps because they have mistaken the bleak leaden sky for nightfall or because of their presentiment of a storm.

186 In these days home proposed projects was very bleak, half for the funeral, half for my father idleness.http://

187 Film-maker Boyle, who won for best director and was previously best known for the frenetically bleak Trainspotting, is British.

188 Week by week when he got home from work, Murong would post new pieces to a story that painted a bleak yet honest picture of modern urban life in the city where he lived.

189 Financial market participants focused on the bleak consumer outlook instead of a Federal Reserve report that seemed to imply the deep recession that started in December 2007 was close to ending.

190 The fallen flowers leave no trace but fragrance, in this bleak season, let the lonely silhouette dance trippingly, shaking off the dust together with the melancholy.

191 Reports from the city of Kaduna paint a bleak picture of charred bodies on the streets alongside burnt-out vehicles.

192 His face was bleak.

193 Edward O Wilson is one of the architects of that bleak philosophy called sociobiology.

194 Horse offers to humanity the opportunity to call upon the horse species when things look bleak or even if you want a friendly nuzzle in the middle of the day.

195 It was a beast of a day , bleak, cold, and rainy.

196 The bleak IMF - imposed austerity packages hurt, but seemed to do the trick.

197 Life in the Aran islands has always been bleak and difficult.

198 It may be difficult to believe but speculators are shrugging off the bleak outlook for the housing market by continuing to invest in new-build developments in the hope of turning a quick profit.