Sentences with phrase «bleak landscapes of»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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».

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.

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

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).

Visually speaking, the city streets feel very close to the urban landscape of Blade Runner — this is a very bleak film, and unfortunately that darkness never feels connected to a larger theme or narrative focus.

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

A scene where Adrien Brody, as Gulf War I vet Jack Starks, wanders away from his loony bin down a long tunnel in a Robert Frost wood and Dr. Lorenson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) stumbles after him demonstrates both, with Deming painting a beautiful landscape from paint pots full of bleak, oppressive isolation.

The landscape covering the oceans of oil is inhospitable and the work done on the face of the land is the bleak, strenuous toil of hard men wrestling with the cast iron machinery and implements of their age.

Just as much, the cinematography from Mike McLaughlin serves to register the beauty of the barren Albertan landscape, at times breathtaking despite its bleak nature.

At once tender and bleak, it provided a landscape for the performers and the filmmakers to put forth a new brand of cinema, one that would become the famed «new American cinema» for a decade to come.

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Schrader's movie is a talky one, but the words are precise and compelling and the images entrancing, whether it's Pepto - Bismol swirling into a tumbler of whiskey or an urgent flyover of bleak industrial landscapes.

However, as The Death Cure effectively concludes the last film franchise that was born of the popularity of The Hunger Games, it doesn't provide any real incentive to revive the narrow genre of dystopian YA - based sci - fi that has a future as bleak as the apocalyptic landscapes they depict.

I wouldn't call it a metaphor, but as a bleak emotional landscape — Eliot's «The Wasteland» committed to genre schlock — it boasts of an intimidating gravity.

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.

He makes his way across a bleak black & white landscape with the help of a poetry - loving Native American (Gary Farmer) who decides that this William Blake is the William Blake — even if he is a «stupid fucking white man.»

In Fury, the new World War II thriller from filmmaker David Ayer, the actor moves from the bleak horror realm of The Walking Dead to an even more intense, and all - too - real, landscape: the Allied incursion into Nazi Germany.

The story follows two groups of travellers, both of whom crisscross the bleak Nordic landscape, attempting to stay alive in a world ravaged by the deadly dredge, a seemingly endless army of black - armoured warriors that are wrecking everything in their path.

A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard - fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

Consider the setting with particular regard to images of unrelenting winter frosts, bleak and isolated gray - clouded landscapes, and a cold, dark, and unwelcoming house full of incessant noises.

On January 10th 2014 the company officially filed for insolvency and the future of the German book selling landscape looks bleak.

Released in the UK a year ago, The Guardian called Heathcliff as played by James Howson «a puzzle, a tornado of resentment whirling destructively across the bleak and intimidating landscape.»

Given that bleak history, injecting yet another promising piece of 10 - inch hardware to the Android landscape seems at best hopeless and at worst delusional.

With the recent release of Move and Kinect, and mountains of awful shovelware on the Wii with even first party titles tending to use motion as an after thought, the landscape of motion gaming is bleak and depressing.

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.

His final series of paintings from the mid-1960s were gray, and black with white borders, seemingly abstract landscapes of an endless bleak, tundra - like, unknown country.

Árvas - A woman finds colourful companionship on her drive through the bleak and magical landscape of Northern Sweden.