bleakness

How To Use bleakness In A Sentence

• Residents of this section of the city recall a time, not long ago, when their streets were canyons of bleakness.
• Yet there is something beguiling about the bleakness of this place that you miss if you bop across the country by air, from warthog to lion, from sand spout to watering hole.
• In these lines Stevens describes the mind as a concentrated tool trained to withstand the blizzards of loneliness, trained to endure coldness and bleakness, in order to behold beauty without being overcome with misery. History of a Suicide
• His first Swiss landscapes focused on the grandeur and bleakness of the mountains.
• At one point during his childhood, a new relationship of his mother's took him out of all the gray bleakness to a veritable tropic isle off the coast of the Carolinas.
• Confronted by such bleakness, the only things left for Gilmore to affirm were the cycle of life itself and the simple joys of human communion and fellowship.
• The village and its fields were enclosed by barbed wire which separated their greenness from the bleakness of the enmity all around. Shimon Peres - Nobel Lecture
• There's still a hint of that old frigid bleakness, and a couple of Velvet Underground lullabies, but the core of this album is infused with strings, brass, wah-wah guitar and an organ.
• Their hope, in the very bleakness of their existence, is ultimately shattered, and we realize they are back to square one at best.
• The bleakness of the environment inhabited by the characters is emphasized by the almost complete lack of sunlight in the film.