Noun
a bleak and desolate atmosphere
Source: WordNet"Anita,” he asked, "are there really werewolves?” "Yes,” she told him. "Your werewolves are down there.” And that was right, he thought. The darkness of the mind, the bleakness of the thought, the shallowness of purpose. These were the werewolves of the world. Clifford D. Simak
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. Nick Hornby
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. Tibor Fischer
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. George Saunders
the nakedness of the landscape Source: Internet
As it turns out, Xiu Xiu’s bleakness is more like a balm to the band’s fervent following — their grim outlook is born of realism, reflective of the idea that beauty isn’t always in sunshine and roses. Source: Internet