John Edgar Wideman

I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

American Writer

Ben Fogle

I've had enough of the bleak headlines and divisive politics, dark TV dramas and hate-filled social media. I'm embracing a new movement with a slightly ridiculous name and a single mission, to make the world a better place. It's called 'hopepunk'.

English Writer

J. M. Coetzee

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

South African Author

John McEnroe

When I felt I was rejected by my first wife, and she said, 'Some day you will thank me for this,' you know what? I do. And so, sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. You can think it is bleak and you can't see. You never know.

American Tennis Player

Kameron Hurley

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

Robert Cormier

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

American Author

Paddy Considine

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

English Actor

Margaret MacMillan

If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.

Canadian Historian

Claire Denis

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

French Director

Marianne Faithfull

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

British Musician

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Emotional Impact

'Bleak' can be used metaphorically to describe abstract concepts like situations or feelings.

Metaphoric Use

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Visual Imagery

'Bleak' describes more than weather, covering any scenery or place lacking features or liveliness.

Not Just Weather

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Sensory Experience

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Express Discomfort

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Color Associations

Using 'bleak' for colors and aesthetics often implies a depressing or unstimulating visual experience.

Describing Aesthetics

 Yet accompanying the bleakness of Kafka's stories, there's a great deal of humor rooted in the nonsensical logic of the situations described. So on the one hand, it's easy to recognize the Kafkaesque in today's world. We rely on increasingly convoluted systems of administration

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 for the last few years refugees have troubled past and a bleak future and we - if we don't help them to succeed our future is not going to be bright either if we don't help them to become constructive productive members of the new societies it is going to be

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 their moral innocence stands in stark contrast to the depravity of those around them, even as their fates grow increasingly intertwined. This bleak portrait of Russian society reflects the author’s own complex life experiences and evolving ideas.

Why should you read...

 have to be effective in getting buying power and production to those who need it around the world. I have one last question, and then I'll be back at the end of the hour, Corey, and it's back to you. So, given how bleak that is,

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 even when the likely outcome is failure. So as a humanist, I believe we must not despair for humanity. Even in the face of overwhelming difficulties and in the bleakest of circumstances. Human beings are creative beings.

Why I choose humanism...

 But to describe a novel as Dickensian is typically high praise, as it suggests a story in which true adventure and discovery occur in the most unexpected places. Although he often explored bleak material,

 here and survive but for antarctic animals it's like a warm bath compared to conditions above the ice and while the top of the ice is bleak and barren just a few feet down is a busy living world

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 Taken together, these bleak statistics raise a startling are we running out of clean water? Well yes, and no. At a planetary scale, Earth can’t run out of freshwater thanks to the water cycle,

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 everybody's happy i'm happy chili's happy kittens are happy chilly's risk has paid off she took her kittens on this epic journey and at times it looked really bleak but all five has survived

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 all-encompassing ocean the source of all life without the ocean earth would be as bleak as barren as Mars or the moon with every drop of water you drink every