Sentences with word «bleakness»

Winter paintings can convey a sense of stillness and peace in the observer, or can induce an unsettling feeling where bleakness of existence seems reflected in a desolate, winter landscape.

On one hand, it shares a certain bleakness with its predecessor, its violence and drama presented with the same impassive eye.

I've always been a sucker for bleakness and despair, and he seems to find them around every corner in his fabled hometown — echoes of lost grandeur reduced to trinkets in tourist stalls.

Despite the seriousness of the issue, there is a playfulness that avoids a descent into bleakness.

The Last Tinker puts players into the shoes of Koru, a monkey boy tasked with saving Tinkerworld from bleakness.

Steers described his artistic perspective in an interview in September 1992: «I think I'm in the tradition of a certain kind of American artist — artists whose work embodies a certain gorgeous bleakness.

At the very moment they experience the utter bleakness of abandonment, Powers's favored characters glimpse some benign possibility built into the universe, itself vulnerable, faintly but unmistakably detectable amid suffering and injustice.»

But «the reality of grief is the absence of God,» he noted, and we must guard against words offered «for self - protection, to pretty up a situation whose bleakness [we] simply [can not] face...» («My Son Beat Me to the Grave,» A.D., June 1983, p. 26).

Creativity as self - care is a very real thing, both generally speaking and also as a way to counter bleakness and darkness with beauty, light, liveliness, and inspiration.

Instead of the utilitarian spans reminiscent of Soviet - style bleakness, transportation planners are now summoning Buffalo's rich architectural and historical heritage as they erect a series of new bridges across major highways.

Baker has made a surprisingly joyous film from this despairing situation, but even more difficult, he has done so without obscuring the inherent bleakness of the circumstances of this life or romanticizing them.

At least the crushing bleakness of the story is counterbalanced by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro's colourful and sunny compositions.

Though its themes are so dark they seem to call for the invention of a new color, It Comes at Night does offer a few glimpses of levity and affection amid the unremitting bleakness.

Where many see bleakness and despair, savvy eLearning enthusiasts see a remarkable opportunity to demonstrate how online education can reduce costs, increase quality, and finally earn a solid and permanent position in their company's business strategy.

It was only after I'd finished that I was left to consider the sometimes monotonous fights, the regrettably cliffhanging conclusion, and the overall bleakness of the game's worldview.

One was the anonymity of postwar bleakness and ironic engagement.

Shot using available light, Clark's images range from shadowy black and white nighttime scenes of heroin injection to portraits of small - time thugs with guns, the compounded bleakness of which is only offset by the occasional teenage makeout session.

It also helps to focus on the moments in each day that sing of joy and sunlight, the moments that overlay the creeping bleakness.

Kevin Garnett had some real bleakness around him, and yet he still elevated his game and his team well beyond those barriers.

In the moment, some failure might seem like the end of the road, but remember, there are countless successful men and women in the world today who are only enjoying success because they decided to push past the inevitable bleakness of failure.

RadioShack opted for unadulterated bleakness.

However, the recent bleakness has begun to evaporate in the wake of bitcoin's successful hard fork and Ethereum is once again testing its valuation growth potential, already recovering nearly half its losses from a mid-June slide at around $ 400 to the lowest valuation in recent history at around $ 150 in mid-July.

Still, if you want to avoid violence and stories of bleakness completely, you're going to have to literally cut entire chapters and books out of your Bible with a pair of scissors.

Remote bleakness in his landscapes heightens the sense of melancholia.

Growing up during the Drought meant so much bleakness, but Freddy always found a way to make it bright again.

Deakins» cinematography carefully illustrates bleakness that all parties have to face.

This is Schrader at his sparest; characters rarely look warm — the cinematography by Alexander Dynan («Dog Eat Dog») accentuates the wintry bleakness — the camera rarely moves during scenes, silences and awkward pauses abound, and the score by Brian Williams is used sparingly, but always effectively.

Cinematographer Oswald Morris» washed - out color scheme brilliantly underlines the foredoomed bleakness of the story.

Cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia shoots with an almost - monochromatic commitment to the symbolic bleakness of the wintry mid-West landscapes, and the resulting film yearns for a ray of sunlight.

«The Deuce» needlessly delves into side plots — like the health problems of Vincent's brother - in - law — that add unnecessary bleakness to an already sad enterprise.

The West German director knew that such bleakness makes an ideal canvas for either black comedy or abject tragedy, and that the line between the two can be dim: after all, what is more absurd than the despair intrinsic to living?

The film has some star power in Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal (a Cannes juror last year), but the main draw is Bong's singular sensibilities — he's a master at combining horror, humor, and heart, buried as that heart may be under a giddy bleakness.

Bleakness reigns supreme.

What follows shares the trademark bleakness of the Coen Brothers» greatest previous film, Fargo, while also being a thriller and a western.

By focussing on the emotional bleakness in this story, writer - director Williams manages to find some interesting moments in a film that otherwise seems contrived to reach fans of heartwarming fare like The Best Exotic Marigold...

The unabashed goofiness of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the gonzo tone of Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok signal a radical departure from, say, the staid bleakness of Thor: The Dark World.

From the opening moments of black - and - white bleakness on a field of dead men as a shellshocked horse startles Lee Marvin, the images are rich, varied, and all - of - a-piece.

The dramedy is a refreshingly optimistic addition to a TV landscape that can so often tip toward bleakness, mirroring an increasingly chaotic and fatalistic world.

Biutiful represents something of a departure for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, even as it confirms the pervasive bleakness of his worldview.

At times, Cianfrance startles us with the sheer bleakness of his vision.

Those 80s films, especially Sammo Hung's, had a real misanthropic bleakness to them, a sense of horror as much existential as violent.

Nearly every character has a dark secret — each darker than the last — as though bleakness alone could make «Third Person» important.

Yet the goofball tone wavers as the film reveals its dark controlling idea, sacrifices, and explores scenes of unexpected bleakness.

«The whole movie is a social experiment on a global scale, an ambitious, lavish attempt to see if audiences will turn out for a comic - book epic that goes beyond darkness into Stygian bleakness, grim paradox, endless betrayals and pervasive corruption.

Embracing a particular level of levity or glumness has been key to the financial, or at least critical, success of several summer blockbusters over the last few years (the self - deprecating role of Tom Cruise in last year's Edge of Tomorrow, or the dark morbidity of David Yates» sixth installment in the Harry Potter franchise, Half - Blood Prince, matching the dour bleakness of the source material).

Snow reflects upon the move / counter-move theory as he stares out a window into unforgiving bleakness and his disdain for the revolt that is ongoing is entirely too palpable.

When directors come on to franchise movies, of course they work to fit the tone; however, The Force Awakens is still without a doubt, a JJ Abrams movie, and The Last Jedi will be a Rian Johnson movie with all the amazing, beautiful bleakness that implies.

Nebraska is filmed in black and white, and in the earliest scenes the plain palette suggests nothing but bleakness — an impression heightened as David drives Woody through the empty country of the heartland with its open spaces and run - down towns.

It seems like your normal, spiritually angsty drama, but as this clip shows, run - of - the - mill bleakness wouldn't have that Schrader touch.

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, and the rest of this remarkable cast share a common comic bleakness, as well as, shall we say, a proclivity for profanity.