1.   Don DeLillo has elected to reside in a terrifyingly post-tragic world, a place so bleak that even a fall from grace seems an archival footnote from the past.

2.   Even in a place as bleak as post-NAFTA O.J., there are optimists.

3.   Greater Serbia is a bleak place.

4.   Jokes are scarce in this bleak place.

5.   The cyberspace future certainly looks like a bleak place.

6.   The garden can be a pretty bleak place between late fall and early spring.

7.   Today Columbus Circle remains a bleak place of traffic jams, soulless architecture and unrealized potential.

8.   Your stories brought a little bit of America into that bleak place.