The play's bleak mood is not surprising, though, considering one of the author's major influences.

At least not tonight, not in this bleak mood that plagued him.

Typically, investors withdraw each time there is a bear market - contributing to the bleak mood.

His bleak mood at being blackmailed and bullied actually began to lift.

She was in a bleak mood, apparently pretty sick herself.

Then a bleak mood began to darken his mind.

In a particularly bleak mood he imagined himself to be one of them.

Though the black surely represents the bleak mood she was expecting that day.

Even top executives talk publicly about the bleak mood.

I continued southward, mood bleak because of my failure.