11.   There are other hopeful signs in an otherwise bleak landscape.

12.   They frame a bleak landscape and, with saberlike projections, point sharply at the center.

13.   Weddle drove around the bleak landscape in his full-size Chevy pickup, bouncing on and off the berms that line the canals.

14.   Yet this bleak landscape can also be set afire with dazzling sunrises and sunsets.

15.   Yakusho and Ms. Shimizu deliver unerring performances in a splendid film that harvests hope from a bleak landscape.

16.   Isolated farmhouses ringed by low stone fences speckle the bleak landscape of the moors.

17.   Only the occasional human figure on the bleak landscape, or some laundry hung out to dry, suggest there is still some life here.

18.   That little boy was one of the few bright spots in a bleak landscape.

19.   Their message is rooted in the bleak landscape of corruption, poverty and repression that prevails in many Muslim countries, particularly the Arab world.

20.   The bleak urban landscape was peppered with bombed-out and roofless houses, apartment blocks and other buildings.