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I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.
Movie subtitles
And he would be left with an emptiness, to return to his bleak, lonely existence.
Soulful. gray on gray. bleak.
My dream has been answered, but my life's just as bleak.
But for womankind, my record isn't quite so bleak.
When I told you about Uncle John offering to send me to Vassar, you looked bleak.
Give us a bleak.
Naturally. you can't bleak the rule.
Not with that. You might bleak them.
I know it's a tough bleak. 'fellows. but there's no use beefing about it.
It's bleak.
No desert island castaway ever faced so bleak a prospect.
I'm still standing there holding a bucket full of rocks and staring into a bleak old age.
Distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December. and each separate dying ember. wrought its ghost upon the floor.
No, no, it's looking bleak with the sons of our fathers.
Ladies and gentlemen, the life of many great Croats was difficult, bleak and woeful.
There is no man left in this bleak, awful modern world like you.
It's true that to survive one has to write anything, but this is pretty bleak.
Now, I'll renind you. sir. I'n still standing there holding a bucket full of rocks and staring into a bleak old age.
I've been lying here contemplating a bleak future.
This area is really dry and bleak.
Well, things look a little bleak for Henry, don't they?
How can you love someone who offers such a bleak image of himself?
How can you work in such a bleak room?
Back in the village, it was another bleak springtime.
Sounds kind of bleak.
Mama's just afraid that you're gonna carry away a rather bleak impression of hospitality up here on the Mountain, and I would like to be able to go home and say that you'll come.
Well, it did look a bit bleak.
This is all a bleak, bitter dream a real dish of doves.
This house is bleak when it's raining - Excellent.
You look kind of bleak.
All bleak and cold, it was - a few bare rocks with some weeds sprouting from them and some pathetic little patches of sludgy snow.
It's bleak, my God.
The fossilised remains of some of the earliest of them have been found in the rocks of these bleak Welsh hillsides.
I faced a bleak prospect.
It's a bit bleak.
Bleak?
I don't think you could call it bleak.
Bleak, isn't it?
News and current affairs
But the long-term prognosis - made especially dire by health-care reform's inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs - is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.
Before the green revolution, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gunnar Myrdal predicted a bleak future for an Asia mired in poverty.
As late as the 1980s, only two out of ten Taiwanese who studied in the US returned home, due to its bleak social, intellectual and political environment.
The only alternative to this bleak possibility seems remote today and may never be viable: a single global state in which all children are provided with the same genetic enhancements and the same opportunities for health, happiness, and success.
Other social indicators offer a bleak picture.
A new report from a task force co-chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker indicates that unfunded pension and health-care costs make many American states' medium- and longer-run fiscal prospects bleak.
Of course, not everything in the UN's human rights picture is uniformly bleak.
Unless the authorities embrace a growth strategy - and do so quickly - the eurozone's prospects will become increasingly bleak.
The most recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, released in November 2012, acknowledged Pakistan's recent progress - in stark contrast to the bleak outlook of its previous report.
If the plebiscite victory emboldens him and his allies to step up their tactics of judicial dirty tricks and media manipulation - used to great effect in recent years - the prospects for Turkey are bleak.
WASHINGTON, DC - Though the Greek crisis has been placed on pause, the economic situation in Europe remains bleak.
Even so, the picture for Europe is not as bleak as pessimists assume.
The picture for Europe, however, is not as bleak as pessimists assume.
Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.
Emphasizing greed and corruption as causes of the crisis leads to a bleak prognosis.
Even under the now seemingly heroic assumption that the eurozone will survive, the outlook for the European economy is bleak.
But now, as then, Britain's future is bleak and overshadowed by debt.
At the same time, newspapers report in bleak terms almost exclusively about banks and financial markets, with little attention to the real economy, as if today's crisis were purely financial and bound to remain so.
Now, in the aftermath of the anti-secession law, the future of the charter-flights scheme looks bleak.
If there were no alternative ideas to one-party authoritarianism, military rule, or nationwide chaos, the future of China would be very bleak indeed.
This bleak forecast marks the end of Colombia's longest cycle of growth in three decades, leaving the country in the same fragile situation as that of many other developing economies.
But, against this bleak background, there is reason for cautious optimism.
For starters, it is important to acknowledge that the outlook looks bleak.
South Korea - the seventh-largest trading country in the world, and one of the most prominent economic success stories of the last 50 years - is at risk of such a bleak future as a result, first and foremost, of demographics.
Yet the big picture in Africa is not uniformly bleak.