Sentences with phrase «bleak lives in»

Countless monkeys have been spared from violent seizures and bleak lives in a cage as a result.

The rules and regulations change every day reflecting the bleak life in your country; and you often have to decide between earning enough money for you and your family and your duty.

Not exact matches

But even still, once we've arrived, the picture of colonial life on Mars looks rather bleak in Anderson's view.

The wonky optimism of the movie's funding method contrasts with Peirone's dark movie plot, influenced by a bleak chapter in her life.

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

In wider public life, too, the plight of a local borough councillor, school governor, magistrate or head teacher who challenges the gender - agenda is likely to be a bleak one.

Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens» Bleak House; he made his first appearance 140 years ago, yet those who are acquainted with the principal hierophants of New Age spirituality may receive more than a slight shock of recognition: He was....

One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one can not have both.»

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Within this frame, these nameless Hebrew poets succeeded in giving supreme expression to the basic rhythms of inner life: bleak despair in the face of accumulated disaster, stubborn hope, gratitude, exultation, rhapsodic celebration of the splendors of creation, contentment in the quiet joys of the good life.

But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong... One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one can not have both.»

In the bleak spiritual void which is modern Britain, Catholics needs straightforward and commonsense materials that help to keep Christ at the centre of life.

A psychiatrist who studied the effects of the school desegregation conflict on children in the Deep South reports: «I have been struck by how clearly young Negro children foresee the bleak future of their lives.

Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens» Bleak House; he made his first appearance 140 years ago, yet those who are acquainted with the principal hierophants of New Age spirituality may receive more than a slight shock of recognition:

Nothing twee here, nothing bleak or forbidding either — instead this book's message is a celebration of life and love, written with common sense, an attitude of reverence, and an evidently joyful faith in Christ and a love of his Church.

It was just as bleak on Sunday, but we risked or lives in a tiny Car2Go smart - car to drive to do some indoor bouldering (which was SO FUN, I want to go pro).

The English slums were only really cleared in the mid 1980's but even today millions still live in bleak terrace housing.

We have been reading guidebooks to the area, and in one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow watein one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow wateIn the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow watein manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow watein culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow water.

«The penny may well have dropped with Nick Clegg that the government of which he is a senior member was wrong to attack spending, but his words offer nothing to the 20,000 people thrown onto the dole queue in the past three weeks alone, they won't revive our pock - marked high streets and they offer nothing for the millions more for whom life under this shambles of a government is bleak.

This Christmas may have been particularly bleak for those who live on their own and who have lost their jobs in the recession.

It tells the true - story of a flawed (but hugely likable) extended family living in the Mount Hope area in the 1980s and 90s, and their struggles to get by in what was a pretty bleak neighborhood at that time.

Living for now on his little severance package and bracing for bleak times ahead, Tan is contemplating taking a break to sign up for a course in the biomedical sciences to prepare a career switch into this «dynamic and expanding area where opportunities still abound.»

Rather than keep them for the rest of their lives in bleak animal shelters, it may be kinder to have them put down, she says.

That was the bleak picture of Mars painted by the Viking spacecraft, which failed to find signs of life there in the late 1970s.

Despite the bleak - ness of the situation, the film vibrates with color, noise, music, ferocious arguments (both serious and teasing), and eye - catching snapshots of everyday life in Havana.

The film is, even by Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality, its susceptibility to corruption and radicalism, and its place in modern American life: with the slow decay of the planet, as well as with pain, penance, and the validity of suicide and murder.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

A bleak and grotty film, turgidly stereotypical in its view of homosexual life - but it's exceptionally well - acted, and consistent in its point of view.

Darwin's mental movie of the circle of life foreshadows Annie's death - and confirms his belief in the bleak force of natural selection.

It looks like as though this group has the solidarity that would protect them from a breakup, but the success of one of their troupe leads to envy by the others and, given that the winner of an audition by a Saturday Night Live type TV program called «Weekend Live» is the two strongest performer in the Commune, things start to look bleak for the other five.

Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

In the resonant words of Joan, Sylvia's fugitive character, whose frank loyalty to Fonda and her baby brings self destruction and release from a bleak world, we «may never find happiness, but we have a right to live.»

Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life - on - the - margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres.

The two characters reside in a lovingly detailed but bleak and colour drained world which emphasises their depressed melancholic lives.

A father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit - McPhee) are among the few people living in a bleak, gray world still subjected to the occasional fire and earthquake.

In a bleak, almost dystopian version of 1984, Arthur interviews Slade's former friends and colleagues, allowing the film to dissolve into vignettes that explore Slade's life and career.

Unlike Bernardo Bertolucci's swooning take in The Dreamers (2003), which also starred Louis, life beyond the barricades is resolutely bleak.

In Persona 5, every day life is bleak.

In that context, the consequences Patrick has to live with, bleak as they are, look a lot like redemption.

ABOUT SCHMIDT Director Alexander Payne's film about a Midwestern widower on a journey of self - discovery is uncompromisingly bleak as well as cutting in its portrayal of the casual vulgarity of modern life.

Scott Cooper's bleak and atmospheric drama about real - life Boston mobster Whitey Bulger ushers in the 2016 awards season.

This is a bleak film about a family living in the aftermath of what appears to be the end of the world.

Meanwhile, Slumdog Millionaire's success, and specifically the three music nominations which rewarded homegrown composer AR Rahman, also appear to have silenced the national row in India over the film's portrayal of the bleaker aspects of life in sprawling Mumbai.

Alfonso Cuarón takes the reins from Chris Columbus to deliver a darker, scarier and more bleak outlook on what's to come in Harry Potter's life.

Bleak in atmosphere and teasing in its jigsaw construction of ensemble moments, «Happy End» is a snapshot of roughly a year in the life of a Calais family.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

Betsy Bozdech Set against a background of sometimes beautiful, sometimes bleak, always breathtaking Canadian vistas, Aisling Walsh's biopic about celebrated folk artist Maud Lewis boasts authentic, lived - in performances by stars Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.

I guess my point with Frozen River is if you are going to go misery bleak, then I need more than a clever device to propel character motivations forward in that bleakness, it needs to be the bleakness I know from experience, the ennui of life, and to do that you need to go whole hog and dispense with plot altogether.

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.