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Also, I'm a lifelong Cincinnati Bengals fan, which prompts me to
spend a lot of time thinking aboutThe Bleakness .
Bleakness , the tragedy of war and man's inhumanity to man, numbers
and the games they play, the Latin language (Linguam Latinae Amo!
decide you're
not much of a talker, or in this case much of a typer (I guess) you
can just tap out a quick, "Just dandy" and/or "The bleakness of
this world is only 'out-bleaked' by the bleakness that is my soul"
and I get a great message on what your outlook is and can better
tailor my response.
I smile too much: it hides the bleakness inside ;)
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by maitrivihara
An overpowering bleakness Why talking about cricket feels out of
place in the face of the Mumbai attacks November 28, 2008 The Taj:
not merely a ... none
of my friends were in the hotels, but I am numb, not with fear or
personal loss, but something far deeper: a sense of overpowering
bleakness.
by youreviltwin81
why is it that the more questions i answer, the fewer personality
awards i have? i started out with five last night, i answered about
80 questions, i look back today and i've got three personality
awards. that's kind of dire, isn't it? like, the more i expound on
myself, the less personality i...
by Phalangite
of it), that has been banned because of
"unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone". I don't know
enough about this game to make any comments on it. But I'll tell
you this: nothing, and I mean NOTHING, should _ever_ be banned
simply because of "unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone".
by LonelyImmortal
No
eulogy, no wake, no funeral; just the suffocating bleakness, of
being alone. Memories like chains, wrapped around my legs. Emotions
like bullets, logged firmly in my heart. No eulogy, no wake, no
funeral required. Just the suffocating bleakness, of being alone.
Journal Comments (13)
Comment by Deetie
A beautiful bleakness blindingly true what you write here.
Comment by Diacritic
Woven Hand's
self-titled album always gets me, both for its bleakness and for
its personal associations.
Comment by SkippleNanifram
Next meetup is in the frozen
bleakness of interstellar space, being pelted by iceteroids.
Forum Comments (9)
Comment by BlayzinGlory
Hedonists see that
bleakness and recognize that any current happiness outweighs it,
because happiness/pleasure is quantifiable, whereas the bleak abyss
of the end of such things is an unknown.I would agree with this if
you hadn't made bleakness and deep pain ... spite of the bleakness; not
because
Comment by pauli133
grey makes me think of a
wrinkle in time and other assorted bleakness.
Comment by SaintClarence
I like the bleakness of winter, but by the end, man,
I'm craving some daylight and color.
Comment by
It is the ray of light in the bleakness
that is Hollywood.
Comment by FlyingMariachi
^^Because maybe I'll want to film something resembling a Sergio
Leone western and figure that it may offer just the right level of
bleakness?