1.   He battled apartheid and all forms of discrimination, worked for the disenfranchised, pushed education for poor kids with bleak lives.

2.   He finds himself drawn into their bleak lives, and gradually has his rather smug Northern-Italian consciousness raised by the experience.

3.   It dealt with the bleak life of a business executive haunted by a nameless fear.

4.   It was a stroke of great luck in what were otherwise bleak lives.

5.   Plath, whose bleak life led her to suicide, would certainly be a change-of-pace role for Ryan.

6.   Searching for a silver lining, the Western diplomat inadvertently suggested just how bleak life has become in Afghanistan has become.

7.   The title comes from the name of the saloon where barflies congregate to talk about their bleak lives.

8.   Xenya Zaporozhets described the bleak life in her native Ukraine, which is one of the republics of the former Soviet Union.

9.   Thus, contemplating the prospect of a bleak pensionless life teaching English to foreigners, Andrew prepares for a dignified exit.