The bleak conclusion of the study is that:

It was a bleak conclusion.

Yet there's enough reality in it to precipitate a breakdown from which Paul eventually emerges to voice his story's bleak conclusion.

Despite its largely bleak conclusions, the report found some pockets of strength in the city.

Dismayed by bleak news from Moscow, some Americans jump to a bleaker conclusion - that Russia's democratic experiment is doomed.

The earlier articles in the collection seem to be offered in support of Adler's bleak conclusion about the state of newspaper journalism.

Kazan had encouraged Williams to soften the play's bleak conclusion for a Broadway audience.

As Berman's argument (and his disgust) builds, it seems as though he too will reach this bleak, self-lacerating conclusion.

The 61-year-old author said he reached his bleak conclusions over the course of a career in civil rights that he now believes was misdirected.