Once again we are firmly placed in the bleakly beautiful landscape surrounding Argus, N.D.

Not just Rembrandt, but the genre painters, with their tavern scenes and domestic interiors, and, in the bleakly beautiful Frisian section, the landscape painters as well.

Philip Watson comes across an exclusive and indulgent outpost on the bleakly beautiful Aran Islands.

Mr. Curtis-Smith takes up where Debussy's lonely, bleakly beautiful last music ends.

A rock and a soft place Philip Watson comes across an exclusive and indulgent outpost on the bleakly beautiful Aran Islands.

We splashed ashore, interlopers in a bleakly beautiful land.

He called the song "a bleakly beautiful ballad" and it was a "rare moment where Snow Patrol's emotional ache feels genuinely heartfelt rather than borrowed from Chris Martin."

Throughout, the film pauses for long, silent looks at empty landscapes, leafy and verdant in summer and bleakly beautiful in winter.

When John Banville won in 2005 for "The Sea", his bleakly beautiful study of grief and sexual awakening, there were apocalyptic grumblings from many critics.

As the story begins, they have just moved from London to a bleakly beautiful seaside town in Devon, in the southwest of England.