Sentences with phrase «bleak setting»

On June 28, the company announced an incredibly bleak set of earnings, including its first quarterly loss in more than seven years.

Scott's sharp eye for detail and strong sense of place are amply employed in this work, which shrewdly borrows from many Southern Gothic traditions - particularly bleak settings; violence; and eccentric, flawed characters.

The folks at Techland created a rich and intriguingly bleak setting for the game, so that gave me a wonderful and creepy world in which to play around.

The otherwise naturalistic dialogue and bleak settings are invested with a touch of poetry through the integration of some simple but effective metaphors — Iris» alienation is figured by a scene where she finds herself literally disconnected by the telephone services, while her disorientation is visualised by her wandering dreamily through the storage corridors of a Lost Property Office where she has begun working, just another neglected object waiting to be found and loved again.

For a bleaker set of drinking buddies, check out the 1987 gem Barfly.

From the bleak settings and synth - heavy soundtrack to the hyper - stylized violence and hints of body horror, this film would feel right at home next to Carpenter's early output like «Assault on Precinct 13» and «Halloween.»

The film's comedy comes, in part, from subverting this bleak set - up.

The bleak settings were uninspiring; the overall grey effect was more stunting than enlightening.

I wish it wasn't quite such a bleak set of films to be celebrating in this of all weeks, but that's just how it worked out.

There are a lot of interesting contrasts in the story: Gorgeous writing combined with a bleak setting.

Dark Souls II immerses players in a bleak setting full of danger and adventure while allowing them to discover what lies beneath the anguish and pain that engulfs the world.

With an interesting story, couple of extra modes and bleak setting, is Deadlight Director's Cut a must for zombie fans or is it nothing more than dead weight?

An example is the maze that is thrown into many adventure games of today, or even a game that simply uses a bleak setting, like a deserted ruin.

Fascinated by the area's past and driven by discovery, Kander's photographs portray stark fact and bleak setting with a characteristic poeticism.

While the moody skies add to the bleak setting of concrete and rubble, they also reference the works of northern European Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich.

The show's action sequences are fun, and amiable supporting performances from Elden Henson (The Mighty Ducks) and Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood) bring some comic relief and heart to the bleak setting, but as usual, the real stars of the show are the villains.