The village offers a typically bleak portrait of Philippine rural life.

What emerges is a bleak portrait of an actor desperate to hide his condition and "remain anonymous at all costs."

A22 A report drew a bleak portrait of teen-agers' health.

This bleak portrait is continued with Thackeray's own role as an omniscient narrator, one of the writers best known for using the technique.

The film is a bleak, melancholic portrait of a young man searching and failing to find meaning in his life.

The study, released yesterday by the Education Department, presented a bleak statistical portrait of the nation's literacy.

The film follows them through street incidents that paint a bleak portrait of a dirty cop.

The song has been widely interpreted as a bleak portrait of political repression and a call for those resisting it to continue.

No one at the ceremony seemed to mind that they were honoring an actor and director who had created such a bleak portrait of the village.

Four bleak portraits of young people adrift in society.