The result is a monumental, if unrelentingly bleak, account of what Vital regards as the Jews' essential indigestibility in a Europe that defined itself as Christian.

An unrelentingly bleak view of the world is as false as an unrelentingly cheerful view.

"By spreading the songs across very disparate performers, the songs might still retain the dark quality, but it's not going to be unrelentingly bleak."

Take away the light, however, and it can seem unrelentingly bleak.

A hard, unrelentingly bleak novel that is an exploration of one man's violent sexual nightmare, his crime and his punishment.

Professor Lentin's unrelentingly bleak point of view is far from universal among Dublin's Jews, but she does carve out a position that others concede holds a kernel of truth.

The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events.

Readers be warned: Before sitting down with Dan Chaon's ambitious, gripping and unrelentingly bleak new novel, you might want to catch a "Seinfeld" rerun or two.

Martyn Waites stands out in the crowded field of young British noir writers currently in competition for the most sour, cynical, hopeless, unrelentingly bleak vision of criminal injustice.

Although the action takes place almost entirely indoors, the film feels neither unrelentingly bleak nor airless.