bleakness

One act chronicles the bleakness of living under Capitol rule in Panem.

The beauty of this image and the bleakness of its meaning hang suspended in perfect balance.

What is it about bleakness and tedium that are so attractive, other than the fact that most people instinctively recoil from it?

Outside, on the bleakness of the avenue where the president lives, Washington looked anything but normal.

I want to sit on its benches again in spite of their treacherous bleakness, in spite of the drabness.

Through this passage Cuni hopped, and passed from the bleakness of the white fields into an enchanted palace.

The view of this scene was impressive from its bleakness, the dunes of sand being more at the mercy of the winds.

For the coast of Labrador is nearly a thousand miles of barren bleakness and forbidding and foreboding rock wall.

Little Anne Merryman had shivered all her short life in the bleakness of this domestic ideal.