Sentences with phrase «bleak time of»
At this bleak time of the year, dig up a few snowdrops and violets and plant them in a decorative shallow plant container.
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It's a damning assessment that helps to explain the latest round of bleak stats on women's compensation: According to Statistics Canada data, full - time female employees earn just 74.3 cents for every dollar earned by a full - time male employee.
By the time BlackBerry 10 is released, the company could be working with a smaller subscriber base, and it will have suffered more reputational damage in the wake of bleak earnings reports, further souring consumers on its products.
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
And for every 10 times I've been consulted about a bleak mood, only two or three of my 20 - something friends actually has diagnosable and clinical depression.
The situation seemed bleak, but had Teflon existed in Beecher's time, his foes might have wondered if he were coated with it: nine of 12 jurors sided with him, his church denounced his accusers and Beecher resumed his work.
As a paid - up member of WAUS, I think I have now heard «In the Bleak Midwinter,» «Little Drummer Boy,» and «Adeste Fideles» in English and in Latin, at least forty times in the past fortnight.
This could be occasion to paint a bleak picture: The current rate of global diversity loss is estimated to be a 1000 times higher than the extinction that would occur naturally.
I served it to guests yesterday with a scoop of homemade tropical ice cream to end the meal, and every one went to bed happily satisfied... still blissfully unaware of the time suck awaiting us on this bleak DST morning.
Only got off work in time to see the second half but noticed Sane played poorly and overall the team was bleak and out of it.
We need players of quality in our problem positions, we need a manager who is in vogue with current trends and actually coaches, starve kroenke of cash so he can not pillage our club for his NFL side then we may start the long road back some bleak times ahead
Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Anthony Martial, Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Henrikh Mkhitaryan are all options behind the main striker, and so Depay's chances of regular playing time look bleak.
After Jermain Defoe had given the visitors the lead at St James» Park just before half - time, it looked bleak for Rafa Benitez's men as they looked set for a huge blow to their ambitions of avoiding relegation.
Every time Sanchez is asked about his Arsenal future, the Chilean simply replies that he just wants to win trophies with Arsenal, but as the season has progressed that is looking like a bleak prospect in this campaign, and there have been three bits of news recently that seems to indicate our superstar will not be with us for the next campaign.
Yet, the mood is bleak: having been up in second they're now in fifth, 13 points behind Chelsea, sifting through the wreckage of another dead title bid and wondering what the hell's gone wrong this time.
Arsenal are also seeing the return of a number of players, and although key stars like Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere still face some time on the sidelines, things aren't looking as bleak as they have been at times this season.
There is obviously talent in there, but the prospect of Chelsea finding their next John Terry looks pretty bleak if they ship them off to Watford or Bournemouth at the first time of asking.
Schalke are hoping to gain more «clarity» on the future of Leon Goretzka by the time the Bundesliga begins its annual winter break in mid-December, although their prospects of convincing the talented young box - to - box midfielder to stay appear increasingly bleak amid suggestions that he is set to choose between Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
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The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.
This afternoon he mapped out a bleak landscape in his spending review, but the Chancellor was keen to tell MPs that Waterloo would be restored in time for the 200th anniversary of Wellington's famous victory to mark «a great victory of coalition forces over a discredited former regime that impoverished millions».
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.
Burnham also followed an emotionally charged address from 91 - year - old activist Harry Leslie Smith, who spoke of growing up in a «barbarous, bleak and uncivilised» time before public healthcare.
Unfortunately, plastics take a really long time to break down and the high levels of plastics in landfills, oceans and even remote areas of the planet paint a rather bleak picture of the future for plastic pollution.
Statistics relating to strokes and falls are bleak, with research revealing that strokes can increase the risk of falling by 4 times and drastically increase the risk of breaking a hip following a fall.
I believe that with some practice just about anyone can abstain from food for an extended period of time with little discomfort, but for a lot of people, the idea of going without food for a day and a half is a bleak proposition.
It paints a bleak picture, but don't despair; you can save time and money and still date, reducing the overall cost of finding love.
Facebook amended the S - 1 filing several times, each time painting a bleaker picture of Facebook's future.
Woolf comes off as so bleak, spirited, and blighted by her time in the country, but it's of course much more about her depression and the lengths that her overprotective husband goes through to keep her alive.
The whole glum genre has made millions and that in itself is a little dispiriting; unlike the old - time sci - fi of Asimov, Silverberg and Clarke, which were rich with possibility, these new tales all forecast a bleak future, ruined by adults.
The apocalyptic, end - of - the - millennium rage of Thewlis's Johnny — an articulate, grungy working - class lout on the dole who abuses women and spews negativity — registers at times as Leigh's commentary on the bleak harvest of Thatcherism.
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!»
Over their shoulders, we could see a real world, the world of Times Square in the 1960s, which at the time seemed bleak and dangerous — but in the less innocent 1990s seems positioned half - way between our current despair and lingering myths of Damon Runyon.
Hertzfeldt's vision of a bleak, beautiful future is a brilliant marriage of form and content, with art that blends crude stick figures with complex backgrounds, all to tell the story of one happy - go - lucky toddler and her emotionally damaged, time - traveling clone.
Allot of hand held cam work adds to the atmosphere as Goss goes on a one man army kick ass spree to avenge his brother and it does feel gritty and rough if alittle glossy with that Hollywood touch, not as bleak and tough as» 187» or «Harsh Times».
Suffused with the bleak acidity of a time when films often ended with the hero (or heroine) going up in a ball of flame.
The story may be bleak at times, but it's ultimately powerful and absorbing, and Rees presents the racism of the era as both routine and heartbreaking.
Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»
The film takes time to outline and explain Thanos» bleak worldview, as well as giving him moments of emotional depth involving daughters Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan).
As devastating at the moment is, the journey the protagonists take to defy the overwhelming odds against them is a message of hope during bleak times and represents what I most love about the series.
It's actually a sad film much of the time, but hopeful and affirming throughout, even in its bleaker moments.
It's got something to do with the lack of a human grounding: the only other time Pixar stumbled was with its similarly bleak A Bug's Life (that picture resorting, like Cars, to racial caricature as its primary tentpole), which is also the only other time the company has neglected to ground its story with homo sapien ballast.
Leigh's naturalistic style lends itself perfectly to the low - key, slice - of - life drama, which, while bleak at times, nevertheless rings true.
The photography at times has a bleak and mournful quality in keeping with the physical and internal journeys of the pilgrims.
There are definitely some mechanics to be fixed, namely the monotony of the combat, but I enjoyed my time in this bleak world thoroughly.
An aimless teenager (Harris Dickinson) on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self - identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Moss plays a detective who has returned to the bleak rural town where she grew up in order to spend time with her dying mother, and is soon recruited by the sole local police officer (David Wenham) to investigate a case of statutory rape.
It's a Western, of sorts, impossibly bleak, familiar, at times, but singular and often mystifying in its sun - bleached and dust - veiled designs.
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!»
Locate in Night Moves and its brothers the seeds of films like The Dark Knight and No Country for Old Men, and consider that it took the collapse of two towers to bring the United States (after Reagan and his screen analogue, Gump) back into this golden age of bleak self - reflection and, at times, incomparable artistic expressions of fear and trembling.