What is "bleakness"

Usage examples of "bleakness".

Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the windowpane.

Just as quickly the excitement faded, giving way to bleakness, helplessness, despair.

He ascended the wall and stood for a long while at the window of his pavilion, staring out into the bleakness of the southern plains, until his mind was utterly void of thought and his aching body had yielded up some of the tautness of its tense muscles.

Simthala Honginda from his bleakness, Boldirinthe thought, then no one could.

In that instant, but only for an instant, his dreaming mind flashes northward into the bleakness of the cold lands, where the horizon is lit by a brilliant incandescent glow.

For a month Hatch looked at Gid with bleakness, and there were no intellectual gallops in his stableyard.

His eyes were as flat and hard as Kien remembered them, though they had an even greater bleakness, as if a major new worry was gnawing at him.

Some fear had been gathering in me, perhaps because of the strangeness of my heritage, and the bleakness of the evening, and the queerness of the silence in that aged town of curious customs.

Leaving the city, the bus climbed up over the paramo, where a cold drizzle added to the bleakness of great stretches of brown grass.

Again, the Ephesians sought the counsel of Apollonius, but in the bleakness of his pain and his doubts he had no answer for them.

Typically, a green priest would find such bleakness disturbing, but Arcas felt the desert calling to him.

But if you listened, you heard something very different: an enveloping Beckettian bleakness.

And from time to time there was a rasping quality about them that turned their plaintiveness into a stark and chilling bleakness.

And Saxon, glimpsing him sidewise, as he watched the horses and their way on the Sunday morning streets, checking them back suddenly and swerving to avoid two boys coasting across street on a toy wagon, saw in him deeps and intensities, all the magic connotations of temperament, the glimmer and hint of rages profound, bleaknesses as cold and far as the stars, savagery as keen as a wolf's and clean as a stallion's, wrath as implacable as a destroying angel's, and youth that was fire and life beyond time and place.

In the unpromising surfaces of bare rock, she had found a bright wheel of capricious emotions, while in cloud puffs that surely must have been burping with innate whimsy, she found such a bleakness as would chill the heart of a commissioner.