bleakly

The Kielmark shrugged, his expression bleakly forbidding.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

There is "-- bleakly --" no saving saints and martyrs against their will. "

The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

Nonetheless, a little of this bleakly dour alliterative verse - even in superb modern English versions - goes a long way.

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

Snow shrugged his shoulders and gazed bleakly at the smooth surface of the lagoon, where tiny wavelets danced in the afternoon sun.

A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

When a character on a TV show says bleakly, “I saw nothing” – you look into the abyss with that character, and you recoil, you run screaming from what you see.

The Power of Nothing at SF Novelists 2009

Nonetheless, a little of this bleakly dour alliterative verse - even in superb modern English versions - goes a long way.

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

When I asked him about Christmas with his family he shook his head bleakly, then left with swift efficiency and the look of a man who scents freedom, so close he can almost touch it.

Diary of a separation 2012

It's hard not to come away impressed, if bleakly, by efforts like the Womens' Christian Temperance Union's program of required temperance classes three days a week in the nation's public schools—a program the WCTU managed to bamboozle the schools into accepting.

The History of a Calamity Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

In so bleakly narrating this episode, Maxwell sounds like an adult version of Bunny, the inconsolable young protagonist of "They Came Like Swallows" 1937.

Staving Off Oblivion Abigail Deutsch 2011

The second scenario begins more bleakly, and might end that way too.

The Quiet Coup 2009