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Then her face went bleakly forlorn, hard almost in its helpless pathos.

Truth came to him bleakly, and laid her chill conviction upon him.

It was patent that she had never heard of me, and she surveyed me bleakly with shrewd black eyes, set close together and as beady and restless as a bird's.

In the bleakly tragic K.310 it's Donohoe who registers the maestoso marking more clearly, while Uchida, more expansive, plunges even deeper into the andante's melancholy.

Here indeed was Grand Admiral Donitz in full dress uniform, his chest, neck and hat boasting as many silver and gold decorations as a single person's outfit could hold, his face staring bleakly to the left.

But he bleakly concludes that society can do nothing to stop these men who "use violence on the spur of the moment and with little regard for the consequences".

The Wall is a grimly absorbing dystopian novel set in a very recognisable future, where threats of global warming and anti-immigrant nationalism have been pushed to bleakly credible extremes.

THE WALL by John Lanchester, Faber & Faber, PS17.99, ebook PS12.99 HHHH H JOHN Lanchester has written a grimly absorbing dystopian novel set in a very near and recognisable future, where the threats of global warming and anti-immigrant nationalism have been pushed to bleakly credible extremes.

Thomas Gullestad delivers an impressively physical and convincingly anguished performance as Baalsrud, whose arduous cross-country journey across the bleakly beautiful landscape of the Norwegian Arctic Circle is reminiscent of Leonardo DiCaprio in 2015's The Revenant.

When it comes to something worthwhile to say, the bleakly black and blood-red comedy "Arizona" turns out to be as barren and deserted as its desolate suburban landscape.

As Carver follows the clues through Sydney's underbelly, he encounters a cast of bleakly Dickensian characters, from whistling streetwalkers to baby-faced policemen.

With its rivers, forests and hills, it is also, in places, a bleakly beautiful location.