Bleakness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- sadness and bleakness
- sadness and despair
- distress and bleakness
- distress and despair
- melancholy and bleakness
- melancholy and despair
- despondency and bleakness
- despondency and despair
- dejection and bleakness
- dejection and despair
- sorrow and bleakness
- sorrow and despair
- depression and bleakness
- depression and despair
Both words in one sentence
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World Half Full: Despite the bleakness of the setting, the despair of the priest and the woodcutter, and the nihilist ramblings of the commoner, the woodcutter's ability to do good, despite having done evil, restores the two men's hope.
Source: Film / Rashomon -
Where Evangelion is about dysfunction and despair cloaked in Kaballah and Judeo-Christian imagery, RahXephon is about transcendence and revelation; blending music, gorgeous imagery and Mayan lore to produce a result that is thematically the total opposite of Evangelion's bleakness.
Source: Anime / RahXephon
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