bleakest

“Justice-without-mercy must easily be the bleakest, coldest, combination of words in the language,” Salinger writes.

The nonprofit Samasource farms out manual data-entry work to refugees in the bleakest war-torn areas on earth.

But it is precisely when conditions are bleakest that people on both sides require a positive vision for the future.

That comes a few hours after the jobs report from Friday morning, one of the bleakest yet.

And working in politics at the bleakest moment is better than any other career that certainly was available to me.

A farm of five hundred acres was secured within a week, the bleakest, coldest spot ever swept by ocean breezes anywhere.

A gray dawn was breaking, and this is the coldest and bleakest hour of the day.

The bleakest portions of a farm should be pastured off in autumn, so as to reserve the sheltered spots for winter use.

From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn.

How his heart flows out in sympathy over universal nature; and in her bleakest provinces discerns a beauty and a meaning!