Their lyrics generally focused on bleak sexual visions and pain over troubled relationships.

"The Lebanon" is a bleak vision of civil war.

Because the other man can see what things are really like he holds a bleaker vision of what the future has in store.

The work's bleak vision may be baffling in its particulars, but it's not particularly subtle.

It is a bleak vision, and by now a little too familiar.

It was a bleak and inhospitable vision, Africa at the end of a long dry winter.

Perhaps his vision, relentlessly bleak, fits our times better than his own.

This bleak vision appealed to the darker spirits of the Romantic movement.

It is a bleak vision of the future when the Earth has become totally sterile.

But she balks at the suggestion that her bleak vision reflects a view of American society.