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Example sentences for: bleakness

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It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."
Ben remembers how, as a child, the pulp magazines Amazing and Astounding , with their "remote, radiant, exploding facts," used to relieve the pressure of everyday bleakness for him.
Two articles and a photo essay chronicle Russia's bleakness.
But some find the bleakness compelling and praise the dialogue and flashes of black humor.