1
They returned his gaze, the bleakness in their eyes matching his own.
2
Neither this nor the cold wind or the bleakness dampened his spirits.
3
In the bleakness of their absence he always felt lonelier than before.
4
In its bleakness and beauty, it was a day for John McGahern.
5
To block out the vast sky in all its beauty and bleakness.
6
It was a scene of vast bleakness and desolation, stern, forbidding, fascinating.
7
The narrow windows were barred, and the building emanated a quiet bleakness.
8
Your old eyes are blinded by the cold bleakness of the border.
9
Her face lost in the same second its bleakness of pallor.
10
She was happy, delivered from her house of widowhood and bleakness.
11
A look of such bleakness overcame her father that Kaylie wanted to weep.
12
Some men, in that bleakness, drank up their families' groceries, but not Bob.
13
Why had he not noticed the bleakness of the landscape the first time?
14
Something of his former bleakness of aspect returned to the office-boy.
15
A bleakness and melancholy seemed to encompass the spot on this sombre day.
16
There was a bleakness about the situation which made one gasp.
