bleakness

The novel depicts the bleakness of war.

She couldn't shake off the feeling of bleakness.

The movie captured the bleakness of the post-apocalyptic world.

The artist's paintings often reflect a sense of bleakness.

The deserted town exuded an aura of bleakness.

In the midst of the storm, a feeling of bleakness settled over him.

The economic forecast for the coming year is filled with bleakness.

The barren landscape added to the overall bleakness of the setting.

Despite the bleakness of the situation, they remained hopeful.

His eyes reflected the bleakness of his soul.

Like the nearly burned-out bonfire described in the title poem, Mr Paulin's poetry revels in a certain charred bleakness.

I shuddered slightly at the sudden bleakness in his voice, but I was relieved.

For all the bleakness in Wilmer's performance, on the rare occasion that he allowed Holmes some humour...

What is it? he asked anxiously distracted, but not enough. The bleakness did not entirely leave his eyes.

The bleakness of 2020 in Latin America also owes much to the condition of its economies before the coronavirus spread.

Schulz, born 100 years ago this month, could trace the bleakness of his worldview to a dour childhood in St Paul, Minnesota.

Yet accompanying the bleakness of Kafka's stories, there's a great deal of humor rooted in the nonsensical logic of the situations described.

It captures the bleakness that was at the heart of many pagan mythologies: a vision of a doomed world, soon to be destroyed by the gods, or by time.

It irked me in a tropical climate to stare day after day at bony, leafless trees, as though there were no escape in all the world from bleakness.