"No," Sparrowhawk said with bleak certainty.

Despite the passage of four decades, I still wonder what he felt and thought, how he could have left his children, why he would trade the possibilities of the future for such a bleak certainty.

McCoy knew with bleak certainty that this could do it, was probably the only thing which could.

And he was aware of a bleak certainty: that on the third night - should he live to see it - the cold and pallid beam from the icy peak would fully enter into his casement window, and his doom would be upon him everlastingly.

Rosie felt a bleak certainty steal over her.

The bleak certainty in Hayman's voice made Sisko blink in surprise.

And for the second time a bleak certainty of his own approaching death filled him.

His knife was in his hand and he knew with bleak certainty that he would cut her throat rather than let them take her.

But she knew with bleak certainty that, once she'd left it, she would never, ever come back.

But she knew with bleak certainty that they had never before needed it as urgently as they would need it now and in the days immediately ahead.