Sentences with phrase «bleak landscapes with»

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.

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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.

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.

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».

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

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

Its wild and unspoilt landscapes are punctuated with majestic, vast lochs, and the mist that seems to perpetually cover the land casts a bleak, almost desaturated filter across the nation.

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 depressWith 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 depresswith even first party titles tending to use motion as an after thought, the landscape of motion gaming is bleak and depressing.

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.

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?

Announced with a look into the bleak reality of modern bourgeois living, a press release follows the exhibition title with text illustrating the story of one Knut and his fiancee Beatrice as they traverse an awfully Bret Easton Ellis-esque landscape of violent nothingness.

In 2010, the IP landscape seemed bleak for rights holders with unfavourable decisions being made regularly against global brands such as Adidas, Lacoste and Sony Ericsson.

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.

Spring amazes me every year, we live with this bleak and bare landscape all winter, which seems to just go on forever, then all of a sudden these leaves and flowers start blooming and before I know it everything is green and lush again, birds are fluttering everywhere gathering food for their babies, the days get longer, and the air smells of all kinds of different flowers, right now I have lilacs and lily of the valley scenting the air.