Sentences with phrase «bleak place»

Use maps, notes, and tips from other characters to navigate your way through the world and figure out how you became trapped in such a bleak place.

Bad decisions and situations out of your control may have led you to a bleak place in your financial life.

The future is a bleak place, and no new mutants, no heroes, have come along in years.

Just like the original, it's set in the not - to - distant future and portrays the world as a dark, desolate, bleak place.

So, following on from the extra-terrestrial threat of the Loki - led Chitauri and HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D., the world is a bleak place, with Cap (Chris Evans) et al fearing for the safety of the human race.

A curiosity about this conference is that there is no clamour to kill the leader who took them to this rather bleak place.

Karen left the world a bleaker place when she passed away on September 17, 2004, at the age of 38.

A darker and bleaker place, I'm sure.

Not exact matches

Bolton thinks the low application numbers are partly due to the blame that has been placed on business schools for the global economic crisis, along with the bleak job market for MBAs, which has led to lower starting salaries and fewer job offers.

Despite bleak forecasts, the holding company has been placing expensive bets on traditional sectors of the U.S. economy.

Melville himself, in his own bleak old age, underlined in his edition of Balzac the sentence, «New York: A place where speculation and individualism are carried to the highest pitch, where the brutality of self - interest attains to cynicism, where man [is] essentially isolated.»

Among some bleak translations and mistranslations of the Scriptures and the liturgy in the late 20th century, particularly poor was the use of «Happy are they...» in place of «Blessed...» for Christ's glorious words in Matthew 5:3 - 11.

Further, it's worth noting that Sergio Romero is set to keep his place in that clash with Ajax in Stockholm too and so the picture looks pretty bleak for De Gea.

This paints a bleak picture for the Gunners, but if the last 18 years has taught us anything it is that the club tends to find a way of securing its place in the Champions League

Two months ago his chances looked bleak, with Queretaro stuck in last place in the Liga MX.. But a run of seven wins in nine games has left them just two games from an unlikely berth in the final.

Chelsea are currently 10 points behind Tottenham and Liverpool in the pursuit of a top - four place, and their chances of sealing Champions League qualification look bleak unless their rivals suffer a dramatic collapse, Following the Southampton game, the Blues have a Thursday night outing at Burnley before facing the Saints once again in the FA Cup semi-final next weekend.

And they won't like to be told that exposing their children to stress or cosseting and placing an excessive emphasis on academic testing may condemn their progeny to similarly bleak outcomes.

This report illustrates a future that is more bleak, a place where we lose some of nature's gifts.

If this is eventually proved to be a Russian assassination attempt it takes place in a bleak new reality, one in which the subversion of information is a core component of international conflict.

Britain's place in the world is at stake, the prime minister seemed to be saying, and although «confident», as Maude put it, there can be no guarantee that the UK will emerge as one of the «winners» from the current bleak situation.

But it is not worth much, to be honest, for I have seen what they do to people in that place, and while I think I understand on some level why it is they feel they have to do it — the bleak categories of rural society would very quickly be disordered if people suddenly started looking attractive — that is not the same thing as wanting them to do it to me.

Bleak as that may sound, the report stresses that a few key improvements recently have taken place and suggests a refocusing of priorities that could improve many D's to C's in the «relative near term.»

Kosh Agach is an amazingly bleak and windswept place, brown steppe dust covered roads and meagre houses.

This action adventure takes place in the exceedingly bleak near future of 2013.

Infinity War kicks off in a bleak and hopeless place.

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.

She charms her way into a job and a place to stay, but soon her abundant sexuality and immaturity mean she eventually becomes unstuck... This is a bleaker depiction of Australia than is seen in most popular soap operas.

This is the darkest place that Marvel has ever dared to take its franchise, and although it's nowhere near as bleak as Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, it's certainly not afraid to be more adventurous and more challenging.

One of the most powerful entries in competition had to settle for the jury prize, effectively third place: «Loveless» («Nelyubov»), a bleak drama about a couple's divorce that morphs into a brutal indictment of modern - day Russia.

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

Dark Places tells the exceptionally bleak story of Libby Day (Charlize Theron), the survivor of the brutal massacre of her family decades earlier, for which her brother Ben (Corey Stoll) was convicted, largely based on her testimony.

Components are plugged into place throughout such that the final outcomes for these characters should be completely predictable, thus robbing the climax of its power Rating: Hoopla Factor: As we learn of his rather bleak romantic history, it's hard not to feel we're being subjected to a biased retelling — he seems particularly hard done by.

Taking place after season three's «White Christmas,» «Black Museum» shows us three bleak, loosely connected flashbacks all framed by one present - day conversation.

Basically, in the future, the world is a bleak and desolate place, particularly for mutants who are being hunted and killed by the all powerful Sentinels (big evil robots that can take on mutant powers).

It's a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing... But in winter, it can be very bleak.

After all, a backcountry noir taking place in the bluish bleak Ozarks following a teenager looking for her missing father among her rather sinister meth - making family, was never going to be the family - fun hit of the summer.

The only place where the movie really falters is in the final minutes, which is a little too nice for the events that precede it, because even though the subject matter may be bleak, «Starred Up» is a truly captivating film about the ineffectiveness of the penal system and hands - down one of the best prison dramas in recent memory.

Imagine if Edgar Wright's adaptation of the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, all whooshing, 8 - bit inspired graphics and psychedelic action sequences, took place against the bleak backdrop of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, a world filled with gray, heavily polluted skies harshly illuminated by the glow of neon signs.

The exchange is a master class in creating tension and in the effectiveness of simple storytelling: All viewers need to understand what's going on is the sound of the spoon on the teacup, the shot of Chris's tear - stained face, and the bleak, formless look of the Sunken Place itself.

Lee's aesthetic also mirrors the game's lead character, Joel, but Place omits the bleak psychology that saw the game distort the definition of parentage to become a new classic.

But this sector's most significant accomplishment has been extricating disadvantaged children from bleak prospects in dire inner - city schools and placing them on the path to college and upward mobility.

Now the council is applying to four cross-borough schools — all of which I've called, and the likelihood of a place looks pretty bleak.

No doubt about it, Snetterton has a feel of the past and even 60 years later the reasons for its origin can still make it a bleak and desolate place on a cold day.

When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy.

Under other circumstances — if the job market hadn't been so bleak for so long, if the summer hadn't been so glum and muggy — this might have discouraged Josephine from stepping through the door of that office in the first place.

It's bleak, windswept and just one of the most beautiful places in England.

How can something from a place that's bleak outshine something from a world that was wonderful?

Indeed, while you can throw down a bed and rug there's no chairs or couches to be placed so your crew must simply stand around admiring the bleak view.

It relied on a repetitive time - limit mechanic many players detested; it told an uncharacteristically bleak story set in a decidedly non-uplifting place called, appropriately, Termina; and Nintendo released it only 17 months after Ocarina, an unusually short interval between major console Zelda games.

The bleak Seattle environment will also draw many players in, and the dark and stylish visuals give you a real sense of place.