bleak

The DoJ must start locking up their fed buddies now or our country is going to have a bleak future.

And if you've used the gold to set yourself up as a goldsmith, that's going to be a pretty bleak day for you.

Grad students looking to do research for a living face a bleak existence.

Does your group feel like the recession is over and things are getting better, or are things still pretty bleak?2.

It's not as bleak as it sounds though, it's probably similar to 1950's America in that sense.

Situations aren't always this bleak, but the OP was asking for a dose of cynicism.

Go look at the current state of emulation and hardware power, it's a bleak situation.

I might have a bleak vision of this place but unfortunately I think this article is not going to ring a bell in here.

"Twenty years ago, before India opened its markets to the world, career prospects were bleak.

Basically they had to inflate their predictions for Tomb Raider and try to hit them, or else admit that their future was bleak, and they would be losing money.

A paragraph describing another article in that issue is especially helpful for HN participants: "However, not all is bleak.

I'm glad that through homeschooling and other alternative approaches I used to educate my children that now my oldest son, already grown into adulthood, gained sufficient work skills that he has gainful full-time employment even in today's bleak job market.

… Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent.” The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve.

>Have you ever noticed that some developers see the job market as a bleak and desperate place where jobs are scarce and exploitive, while others see this market and can't believe their amazing luck to have stumbled into such a fantastic career?I'd consider myself to be in both camps simultaneously.

One thing that people often remark on is how they're often in the middle of nowhere, but when they were built they were often in clearings in dense forests, but over time as we domesticated animals that would feed on the bark, killing the trees, then eat the new shoots, over many centuries - millennia - we deforested, for example the moors, and the megalithic sites became elegant monuments to a forgotten age, standing proud against a bleak landscape.