0 the quality of being cold, unpleasant and not welcoming or attractive:
A solitary wire of Christmas lights strung across the ceiling only adds to the overall bleakness.
We had been warned about the bleakness of the place before we visited.
There is a bleakness of life that goes with depression.
He rarely mentioned to anyone the bleakness of his childhood.
Even more schematic from a dramatic point of view, indeed banal, would be a mapping of this opposition on to one between harmoniousness and bleakness.
Since everything interesting lies in between, one can imagine the bleakness of paralogics.
He argues that at times carers are incapable of facing the bleakness of the future for their relatives, and they resort to providing care which effectively dehumanises that individual.
The second factor which may ameliorate the bleakness of poverty in old age, particularly for women, concerns changes in the labour market especially in 'women's occupations'.
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