The remote hamlet of Chorcan, where Veronico lives, is captured in all its bleak beauty, a desert place high above sea level where there is barely a blade of grass to be found.

Under the bleak beauty of a twilight-violet sky, the air was oddly still, but so frigid it would have been painful to breathe without the mask's protection.

Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times rated Udaan 3.5/4 and of the view that "This is that rare, superior latter: a bleak beauty, a commendable debut."

The "Epigraphes Antiques," another duet, rose above both arguments, escaping into the bleak, lonely beauty of Debussy's late years.

Aching legs aside, I'm starting to savour the bleak, monochrome beauty of the wilderness.

The result has a bleak beauty and - when the action heads underground into the tunnels beneath no man's land - intense claustrophobia.

The film and slides by Mary Schjeldahl had a pale, bleak beauty.

Toinette's behaviour is forcing me out more and more, and despite all the rottenness underneath, there's a kind of bleak beauty to the place - kind of like Toinette herself!

There was beauty in it, stunning and bleak.

Victor Friedman was evidently inspired by the bleak beauty of the Nova Scotia coast and the hardiness of its inhabitants.