"There's another rather bleak possibility, too," he added.
He added that many people, especially professionals, neglect to consider the bleakest possibility in industries in the turmoil of retrenchment.
But Coach Herman Edwards did not rule out an even bleaker possibility: that Pennington could miss the entire season.
The fight drained out of him as he confronted the bleak possibilities.
Though no one stated it openly, they were all reluctant to speak of the bleak possibility which faced them.
I tried to sleep on my stomach, but bleak possibilities came into my head, one after another.
The bleakest possibility is national fragmentation, even civil war, for that has occurred periodically in Chinese history.
Azira's mind wandered through the bleakest possibilities.
Someone jerked the conversation back to a bleaker possibility with a quick retort: "Your son's going straight to jail," he chortled.