| very | 9 | degree |
| at the time | 4 | temporal |
| for most of them | 4 | other |
| life → be → bleak | 22 |
| life → seem → bleak | 6 |
| life → become → bleak | 4 |
| life → look → bleak | 4 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.709 | 0.179 | 0.112 |
| Raw frequency | 36 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.415 |
| Modifier score | 0.467 |
| Perplexity | 105.354 |