Yet some American officials continued over the weekend to take a bleak view.

We examine in the next few chapters what evidence there is to support this particularly bleak view.

Though he was a dissident to the end, Vonnegut held a bleak view on the power of artists to effect change.

In the case of the Soviet Union, those who took the bleakest view were proved right.

A high school girl who has a bleak view of the modern world.

Martín once again regains his bleak view of life and the world.

Some critics take a less bleak view, though.

The song presents a very bleak view of Africa, which the lyrics appear to refer to as a whole.

Most officials on the Island have similarly bleak views.

It thus paints a fairly bleak view of the human condition.