But I am numb, not with fear or personal loss, but something far deeper: a sense of overpowering bleakness. From LearnThat.org. [http://content-www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/379988.html]
I recall the bleakness that engulfed the land at our first meeting 15 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » The News of Bantu Mwaura’s death shocks Kenyan bloggers] Reference
Second, it presents "bleakness" as everyone's problem when in fact it is only the KMT's problem. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Record: WaPo on Chen indictments] Reference
By this she means creating images of literal bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [Shooting Away The Pain] Reference
His pastel colors began to have a fiery gray bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Evenson plays with bleakness and insanity and alienation. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Edge: Have I Stumbled Upon a New Idear? (Blog)] Reference
Noah's stories have bleakness and half-smoked cigarettes. From Wordnik.com. [The Martians Are Coming] Reference
He listened to the bleakness I could hear in my own voice. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
He could see only her profile; its bleakness didn't change. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Lo, they forsake snug warmth for desolate cold and bleakness!. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
The bleakness of New England country life as pictured in Edith. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Merrill Lynch weighs in annually with its version of bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Fears] Reference
DURAN: The bleakness is softened by his colorful hues, oil on wood. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 13, 2001] Reference
They returned his gaze, the bleakness in their eyes matching his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
To the Frenchman, it smacked of repression, bleakness and deprivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Polish-Russian Gap] Reference
"It is always wise when matters must be arranged in the bleakness of night.". From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
The sun was down now and in this part of the city the bleakness was wrenching. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
The Park had that peculiar bleakness that foreruns the first promise of spring. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
Hebrides which, in their lonely grandeur and bleakness, affected him most of all. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
His only escape from the cold bleakness of Red Springs had been Barrett's Oak Hill. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Would not Sheila, at least, understand the bleakness and desolation of the picture?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Despite also the bleakness of the Plains in winter, and the protracted rigors of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Her gaze met his for an instant, and he was shocked by the bleakness he found there. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
She disliked its bleakness, its barbarity and the strange, moody people it contained. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
But mostly, it's an excuse to insert a little brightness into the bleakness of winter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2002] Reference
The chemical stench in the air seemed stronger, the bleakness of the mesa more pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
The beauty of this image and the bleakness of its meaning hang suspended in perfect balance. From Wordnik.com. [Genius In Disguise] Reference
Little Anne Merryman had shivered all her short life in the bleakness of this domestic ideal. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
Time was always on the side of the Prophet in spite of the bleakness of the immediate present. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: The Alienated Jew: Elijah on the Run from Ahab] Reference
The unsparing bleakness of his vision has influenced writers from John le Carré to Monica Ali. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis] Reference
He then describes the bleakness of the climate, and how the sea freezes over in winter (31-34). From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
We had halted late, because of its bleakness; now in the deep groves already the shadows darkened. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The bleakness of the cold north winter was in his heart and life was barren as the eastern meadows. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
KING: Is television, Sebastian, placing a-- giving us a good picture of the bleakness of this place?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2001] Reference
Soothing words that sounded as hollow to her as they did to Turanna, judging by the bleakness in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
It suffices that they would all possess the essential elements of loneliness, bleakness and haunting terror. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
But of a sudden I had the sensation of looking into the utter bleakness and desolation of interstellar space. From Wordnik.com. [The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds] Reference
The bleakness of his ending is a kind of intellectual cop-out: it reduces all that we've seen to hollow ironies. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Nights Of The Soul] Reference
Others believe that the bleakness itself is a testing, to wear away all but the hard core before the Last Battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
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