Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. Their comedy is characterised by a bleak and somewhat fatalistic tone. In the first half Stakhanovets forwards looked bleak and uncertain. This left CMLL with a middle-aged roster and a seemingly bleak future. She has offered the novel "Sounder" as an example of a "bleak" and "hopeless" novel. It made me more desperate, more bleak. On the one hand, it really is bleak and scary. Godflesh lyrics are cryptic, bleak and generally sparse. Others may lead us, as they lead Trevor, into a bleak solitude. Starkey describes the ending as "wonderfully bleak", and Sims praises the happy ending. The songs were musically lush but driven and bleak. Lyrics were often bleak, gothic or socially aware. Her first solo was "In the Bleak Midwinter". Two critics criticised the violence and described it as unnecessarily bleak. The action is transposed to a modern and bleak urban world.