Sentences with phrase «bleak circumstances»

Fortunately, it's hard to imagine such bleak circumstances now.

One of his most popular films, The External World, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2010 and Sundance in 2011, is composed of a series of characters — crudely drawn, almost nightmarish — in absurdly bleak circumstances; in one, a crying girl pulls tissues from a box, which yells in pain.

Feelings of self - pity for my seemingly bleak circumstances and completely undeserved resentment for my husband filled my head.

Europe is mired in a quagmire of financial bailouts, budget deficits and austerity measures, bleak circumstances that have already fostered social upheaval and are now ushering in political change.

In these bleak circumstances Goitsemodimo Dikinya runs.

At first glance, George Osborne is in a weaker political position than Brown was - even when the bleak circumstances are discounted.

The themes in Galveston are undoubtedly heavy, but the darkness is punctuated by moments of hilarious levity that take the edge off of Ray and Raquel's bleak circumstances.

MISERY CINEMA By Graham Fuller British cinema's ongoing fixation with wretched lives, bleak circumstances, and all things depressing