Sentences with phrase «bleak view»

The only trouble is, it makes for some pretty bleak viewing.

Despite their commonly held bleak view of life, the resulting work leaned more towards two parallel works, rather than one seamless one created by two artists working in unison.

You seem to have a rather bleak view of monogamy.

My response would be to say that Sangster is guilty of taking an unduly bleak view when he calls us a «belligerent, warlike and rapacious species» with «little sign of this destructive nature abating».

Haynes takes great pleasure in nailing every period detail in his movies, and he's chosen an atypically bleak view of the 1950s that's arguably more accurate than the pastel - colored Googie style typically used to represent an era that's more restrictive and conformist than we'd like to remember.

Harrison paints urban wildlife scenes that include cloying blooms, insect infestations, the occasional hare, the occasional skull and bleak views across the London skyline.

When it comes to retirement, millennials take a bleak view of Social Security.

How does she endure such a bleak view of life?

This harsher version of Christian pessimism practically welcomes bad news, as further confirmation for its bleak view.

Mark Greene explores a bleak view of existence in the big screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's finest novel.

i have a bleak view of the country and the economy.

Among the most interesting insights the survey did afford were an affirmation of the importance of family time and a suggestion that many people have a bleaker view of family life in general than of their own lives as members of families.

So it seemed to me that Animal Farm and the Road to Wigan Pier were more relevant to contemporary politics than Orwell's bleak view of the future.

While we do get a better look here at both Jeremy Irons as the building's designer and Sienna Miller as the object of Laing's affection, what's really revealed here is Wheatley's bleak view of humanity — and perhaps more insight into why The A.V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky gave it a B + at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Readers have a choice between the lighthearted world of say, P.G. Wodehouse, on the one hand or the bleak view of someone like Charles Dickens on the other.

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.

That's the bleak view Keiji Inafune has of the Japanese games industry right now.

Anyway, I've provided the bleak view of my backyard.

This is a vision of Paradise in the back yard of an outback town, so different from the bleak view through the window in «Six more Sleeps»:

Both exhibitions are curated by Sean Kissane (Curator, Exhibitions, IMMA) Crozier began to exhibit in the early 1950s and his bleak views of the British landscape from that time seen in works like Essex Landscape (1959) are imbued with a darkness and pessimism that is immediately apparent.

It features artists including Julian Opie and George Shaw — Turner prize nominated in 2011 for his bleak views of Coventry painted in Humbrol model airplane enamels — who is displaying for the first time a huge ink drawing inspired by a 2006 Tate exhibition of Constable's «six - footer» landscapes.

Noble has spent the best part of 15 years creating an imaginary town in minute detail, satirising British new towns and taking a bleak view of humanity.

Another series of works, which has its origins in the artist's own personal narrative, presents the counterpoint to this bleak view by celebrating the redemptive potential of a new union.

William Crozier: A Retrospective October 2017 — Spring 2018 Best - known in Ireland for the lyrical landscapes he made close to his home in West Cork from the mid-1980s, William Crozier (b. Glasgow 1930 d. Cork 2011) began to exhibit in the early 1950s and his bleak views of the British landscape from that time are imbued with a darkness and pessimism that is immediately apparent.

The broad, angular vision that characterizes these lonely and bleak views can be seen in Dymchurch Steps (1922 - 4, Ottawa, National Gallery).

The hostility to pipelines is so pervasive in the northeast that ISO New England takes that bleak view that «no new incremental gas infrastructure will be built to serve power generation.»

We do not find out what takes environmentalists to their bleak view of the world and their low view of humanity.

Hill quotes Einstein's bleak view of the situation, «If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

Though there is plenty of evidence for such a bleak view of marriage in this day and age, long - term commitment to the one you love need not be a gamble.