He replies that he does not want to bring up children in this bleak little town and doom them to a future like his own.

There was a little boy, an only child, raised in a bleak Midwestern town by an alcoholic mother and a verbally brutal father.

Home was a municipal housing estate in the bleak little town of Farnworth, near Bolton, and expectations were low.

The outcome of that hunt brings on a brutal encounter that exposes much of the secret unhappiness in this bleak little town.

Having seen my share of bleak little Western towns, I assumed Tofino wouldn't be much different.

With farewell smiles and bear hugs from each, the three friends dropped me off in the bleak town of Sary-Tash.

The bleak town seem to offer few prospects for the future, and Nói doesn't seem to fit in there.

With ice-cold eyes he surveyed the bleak town of Shardl.

But he had never exposed himself to it in any way which made him feel vulnerable, until his first venture into politics, in that bleak town.

I'd almost forgotten how dark and bleak East German towns became alter dark.