Sentences with phrase «bleak reality of»

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.

Painters such as Rogers Naylor or Steven S. Walker investigate the warmth and familiarity of an urban coffee shop or street scene, while artists like Leslie Nolan portray the potential bleak reality of urban corporate business.

The zombie filled world is presented as a bleak reality of survival and State of Decay 2 succeeds in representing this in its gameplay.

Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN, said the vote means schools could face a bleak reality of reduced choices, higher prices and fewer innovative tools.

Our protagonist is faced with a choice of living in a complete fantasy, one that is idealized, and the all - too - bleak reality of her daily existence.

By letting the protagonists speak for themselves, Akerman evokes the bleak reality of racism that made Byrd's murder possible.

By tweaking a course set by President Barack Obama, Trump suggests that he, like Obama and President George W. Bush before him, is facing the bleak reality of Afghanistan: There is no fast or politically palatable way to win, but losing quickly isn't an acceptable option, either.

But former prisoners will talk on condition of anonymity and the stories they have to tell speak volumes about the bleak reality of Grayling's «right - wing solutions» to reoffending.

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New research by the Centre for Social Justice revealed that more than 75 per cent of teenagers aspire to be married, but Rt Rev Mark Davies said the reality of married life today is bleak.

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

Though Stout is fully aware that the social reality is often more bleak, he confronts injustice with a passion born out of his awareness that something much better is not only possible but already exists.

People are tired, and a bit lonely — and because the great reality of our sexual differences is something they do know about, and suspect may be of greater significance than the dear ladies of DARC and WATCH and NADAWM and so on can fathom — they think that the truth of God is too remote and bleak and can never really be discovered.

But the reality - principle of the new theologians has nothing to do with the bleak realism of the downtrodden, who must scrape to make ends meet and can not afford the luxury of uninhibited fantasy.

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.

If there is a glimmer of hope for Labour, it is that the recent polls, which showed them at real risk of losing their grip on Wales, turned out to be bleaker than reality.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Dirty Computer opens with an ominous voiceover spoken by Monáe, who coldly informs us of the bleak reality we're about to enter.

Hader's character is more allowed to embrace comedy (the subject material is so dark and bleak that the script does need the actors to tell jokes just for the audience's survival), his character using dry sarcasm as a shield against the gritty reality of life.

Upon closer reflection American Graffiti casts a bitter / sweet shadow over a time of perceived innocence, suggesting that the ideal of a simpler way of life was just a front for a far bleaker and cynical reality.

Setsuko is jolted back to stultifying reality, effectively crushing the assertive independence she has inadvertently discovered, until Komori / Tom walks back into the bleak picture, perhaps bringing fresh promise for both of them.

The prospects of a second outing for Ron, Brick, Brian and Champ seemed bleak when Paramount Pictures decided against making a sequel in 2011, but a deal was finally brokered last year to make Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues a reality.

We can have moments of escape from a bleak reality via stories and movies of imagination and beauty.

The realities Ngounou saw for teachers, administrators, families, and students working in education painted a bleak picture of the future, one in which despite all the hard work a certain feeling of powerlessness about policies and practices remained.

And though most of us are in no mood to speak ill of Obama, if there was ever a lying happy face painted over a bleak social reality, «Race to the Top,» Obama's name for his K - 12 «reforms,» was it, since the real social mobility in this country has been downward, for quite some time.

With all the horrible realities of the world weighing us down and a bleak future, sometimes it's a daft little app that tries to puts virtual creatures into our world so we can throw balls at them which brings some light to the darkness.

But when we try it in reality the results are often bleak, full of stress and with very little game to show for it.

Considering that the OASIS was considered the real world to many — an escape from a bleak reality — the economic benefits of controlling the world was incredible.

While criticism has been directed towards the seemingly superficial approach to depicting a city that currently represents an American tragedy, the scale of the exhibition promotes a vision of activity, even if a bleak reality lies just beneath the surface.

Since the late 1960s, Hernandez's photographs have revealed with formal integrity and bleak beauty, the harsh realities of his native Los Angeles.

The future for small - and mid-sized law firms is far from bleak, but we do have to face up to the reality of changes in our profession and the market that we serve.

From the perspective of Britain the picture can look bleak, but the reality is that renewables are going to win out on economic grounds, even ignoring their environmental advantages.