Sentences with phrase «bleak landscape»

The movie begins with her as a cold, calculating, man - eater, but as the movie goes on she becomes a ray of hope in an otherwise bleak landscape.

As the last real big action blockbuster of the American summer, Pacific Rim promised a certain brand of fresh sincerity amidst a rather bleak landscape of introspective superheroes getting down on the fact that they're superheroes.

A new law centre has opened in Moss Side, Manchester — a rare piece of good news in an otherwise bleak landscape for the not - for - profit sector.

Recurring imagery that surrounds these moments is perhaps symbolic: Georges frequently closes windows; he deals with a pigeon trapped in the apartment; and paintings on the wall depict increasingly bleak landscapes with fewer people.

Schwartz offers several ways of dealing with the paradox of choice, and unlike some would - be Jeremiahs he does not drag the reader through an endlessly bleak landscape before finishing on a note of half - hearted hope or apocalyptic despair.

But the institutes are essentially pockets of scientific distinction in an apparently bleak landscape.

Working with their usual cinematographer, the great Roger Deakins, the Coens present a haunting, beautifully bleak landscape.

At least part of that may be intentional — Ruzowitzky definitely seems intent on a dark and somewhat bleak landscape that transports viewers to the World War II Germany.

As someone raised on fantasy books I confess to loving Oblivion's more vibrant, lush world a bit more, but Skyrim's bleak landscape taps into the modern desire for more grim fantasy and in doing so creates a more believable world.

The opera delves into the tormented life of a homicidal soldier and is characterised by bleak landscapes, denuded of their trees and scarred by shell craters.

And the already bleak landscape for women's health care in Texas is likely going to get even worse, unless state officials with the Health and Human Services Commission can successfully negotiate with the federal government's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow for the renewal of the successful Women's Health Program, a Medicaid - waiver program that provides women's health care services to clients who would not otherwise be eligible for Medicaid unless pregnant.

A different kind of rural unease could be found in The Goob (d. Guy Myhill), a poetic British drama set in the big and bleak landscapes of Norfolk.

Such prose could be translated back into the language of Psalms, which also allow for at - homeness in a bleak landscape.

We've seen something similar with pawnshops, which have reinvented themselves as payday loan outfits that now dot the bleak landscapes of poor neighborhoods throughout the country.

A sense of being embattled: a reliance perhaps on rules rather than answers to profound questions raised in a rapidly - changing world, a sense of the Church as a fortress rather than a Mother and teacher, a bleak landscape for Biblical studies.

This crisp - crusted, golden rosemary sourdough loaf is interspersed with strands of hearty rosemary, one of the only herbs that seems as at home in the bleak landscape of Winnipeg's winter as it does in the desert heat of the Israeli summer.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

This afternoon he mapped out a bleak landscape in his spending review, but the Chancellor was keen to tell MPs that Waterloo would be restored in time for the 200th anniversary of Wellington's famous victory to mark «a great victory of coalition forces over a discredited former regime that impoverished millions».

Doheny added that he and Giuliani share exasperation at the Democrats» policies that have «squandered trillions in tax dollars, rung up the largest deficit in history, and created a bleak landscape for small business owners.»

The Conservative campaign poster depicted a bleak landscape with just one green shoot emerging from the barren ground.

Prosperi managed to capture a few bats to sustain himself for the nine days he wandered through the bleak landscape, where peak temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit are not unusual.

Tall and grave, Belfrage resembles a young Max von Sydow striding through the bleak landscape of early Bergman movies.

Set in the bleak landscape of rural Iceland in the fall, and with an LGBT couple at its core, this Hitchcockian thriller stars Björn Stefánsson, Sigurður Þór Óskarsson, Guðmundur Ólafsson.

Soon Noah is a grown man with a family, battling the bleak landscape and dark visions that he believes come from the creator.

Unlike the brutal, bleak landscape of Snowpiecer, Okja showcases Joon - Ho's softer side.

Less dialogue, more action, and a lot of bleak landscapes to set the tone of the film.

DoP Yoliswa Gärtig shoots the bleak landscape with a cool eye, capturing the subtle shades of grey like a Constable painting.

Amid a bleak landscape, some refugees find educational success — offering a model for educators about what works

The result is a moody, dark writing style, positively reeking with atmosphere and foreboding that, once one is used to it, evokes the bleak landscape and tough people to a tee.

But I grow weary of dystopian novels that descend into people wandering a bleak landscape, avoiding violence, trading with questionable communities, and making bizarre reproduction decisions.

Forget drab days and bleak landscapes.

You explore this bleak landscape in first - person, armed with a torch which can somehow recharge its batteries when not in use, a device that would in fact be especially handy for your typical horror movie protagonist who always seems to be running out battery at the wrong time.

Command a squadron of fully customized Armored Core Units in a dystopian future ravaged by war and stripped of its natural resources The last remaining resources needed for the survival of your faction are scavenged and bitterly fought for in the No Man's Land, a bleak landscape that offers little hope for survival.

Over on West Twenty - Second Street, visitors dove out of the cold into openings for Nayland Blake and Darren Almond at two Matthew Marks galleries, clearly happy to have art to distract them from the bleak landscape outside.

What are those stahlhelms — the steel helmet so evocative of German militarism — doing in two paintings from 2009, one upturned and seen in silhouette against a bleak landscape, the other glinting in the sun with fertile fields in the background?

This contemporary gallery has a taste for street art, and they are currently exhibiting Crumbling Cities by Nether, an urban art campaign focused on improving the bleak landscape of Baltimore through forms of street art meant to generate public discussion.

This unique piece, which unnervingly sets what looks like a prosthetic foot in a bleak landscape distinguished only by its horizon line (à la Philip Guston), is an opportunity to collect a signature expression of this major artist's work.

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