Sentences with phrase «bleak landscapes»

Forget drab days and bleak landscapes.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But with that bleak landscape defined, here's the other side of the equation: firms that already understand the nuances of social media — you know who you are — have a great opportunity to extend their lead over the competition by using paid social media to extend and amplify the reach of their best content.

With the cuts to other family - planning funding, advocates hope that the WHP, a bright spot in an otherwise bleak landscape, will be both reauthorized and expanded.

Not exact matches

You know the media landscape is looking pretty bleak when you've got phrases like «surprise layoffs» and «mini bloodbath» making the rounds.

In a bleak environment for retail, the parent company of Marshalls, T.J. Maxx, and HomeGoods continues to dominate the landscape.

Rebels in his Conservative party have urged the prime minister to insist on cuts to EU spending to reflect the bleak economic landscape across much of Europe.

Conservative rebels had urged the prime minister to insist on cuts to EU spending to reflect the bleak economic landscape across much of Europe.

There would seem to be a connection between the grimness of the story and the rather bleak British landscape in which it is set — where the Catholic population and vocations have declined so dramatically.

In spite of the bleak physical and spiritual landscape, there are O'Connoresque signs of God's presence in Durance, and of His people's willingness to find Him, however He may appear.

A very recent work, «Iron Path» (1986), shows a bleak, gray, incinerated landscape in which a railway track leads from the foreground to a junction at which the track splits and goes off in two directions to nowhere.

When I was developing the recipe for this bowl, I knew I wanted to create something vibrantly colorful in contrast to the bleak winter landscape outside.

Speaking before the Lib Dem conference, which opened in Brighton on Saturday, the former party leader and deputy prime minister said that, while the landscape might look bleak for Lib Dems, with just eight MPs, they should not think they will necessarily «be out in the wilderness for a generation».

The seemingly bleak icy surfaces of these moons are in fact among the most active landscapes in the solar system.

Although its surface is an airless landscape of cracked ice, all the evidence says that beneath that bleak shell is a liquid water ocean stretching hundreds of kilometres down to the rocky mantle below.

From Paranal, it is a 6 - hour drive east through mining towns and bleak desert landscapes, where the only sign of colour comes from shrines honouring people killed on the roads.

Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.

Heller's poetic prose buoys readers across the bleak new landscape.

Previous research on technology use across the life span has focused on the digital divide — or the disparities between younger and older adults — painting a rather bleak picture of seniors» ability and motivation to adapt to a changing technological landscape.

The trips will give you and your partner something to look forward to — and offer some temporary relief from early darkness and the cold, bleak winter landscape.

At this point Moscow's landscape is so bleak, I need all the colour I can get: outside in the form of bright outfits, and inside through fruits (and an occasional bag o chips maybe?

The harrowing sequences of men being mown down by machine gun fire, one after another without a chance, the screams of the young troops as they go crazy from the constant shelling, the mud, barren landscapes, bodies, barbwire and of course the famous bleak depressing ending for the main lead nailing home how cheap life was.

In this bleak West Texas landscape where everyone seems to be struggling, you find yourself rooting, inexplicably, for all of them against a clear villain: the faceless, predatory bank.

Many place accepted heroes of socialist realism — farmers, peasants, soldiers, partisans — in bleak narratives of primitive passions in primeval landscapes.

The bleak and grey landscape reflects the twilight years of their marriage, a relationship that survives on routine and monotony.

I began to speculate whether a guy like Irwin Allen would bother ripping off a guy like Robert Altman, and have ol' Paul Newman, from Quintet more recently than Allen's own The Towering Inferno, materializing out of another bleak futuristic landscape (at least futuristic - in - the - making).