This device is often used to end a bleak story on a more positive note.

Violence, guilt and tension pervade the bleak stories he brings to the screen.

The lyrics tell a bleak story of poverty and joblessness.

He is also able to find moments of tenderness and humor in his bleak story.

He told me a bleak story of life out there in the fax field.

They all keep a complicated and often bleak story moving forward, engaging both the mind and the heart.

This was an extremely bleak story about journalism at its worst.

These are dark, sometimes bleak stories, but that doesn't mean they are hopeless.

But I question how anyone could judge such an unremittingly bleak story appropriate for a picture book.

Gathering data for this report was not easy, and that tells its own bleak story.