Sentences with phrase «bleakness of»

After the bleakness of Sheffield it was a revelation: «To me it was like landing in Tahiti.

The grayness of the installation reinforces the overall bleakness of the collapsing environment, but the flatness of tone signals that this is an entirely invented space.

Similarly, Untitled 2008 explore the bleakness of Chinas future.

Chinese Fun captures the uncanny bleakness of these places: entirely unpopulated and silent, a complete contrast to their usual buzz of crowds.

Even though the famed strip is finished, you can experience the wonder of adventure and the thrill of discovery in this mash - up... without any of the horrifying bleakness of George Martin's signature series.

Leonhardt's gradient chromatic sweeps have the fervor of a deep autumnal shade or the bleakness of a Dystopian future.

Whereas earlier works reveal his grim subject matter in discordantly bright colors, here Alsoudani no longer subverts the bleakness of his inspiration.

For over half a century, Foulkes» singular voice has been continuously seeking, exposing, and re-telling the beauty and bleakness of the American cultural landscape.

The figures» caricature - like outlines and the works» pastel and candy colours belie the bleakness of their content: burial mounds, swamps full of wine bottles, stumps instead of trees, a lone cottage and isolated, skeletal humans, both Native Americans and white pioneers, seemingly wracked by melancholy, hunger and substance abuse.

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.

And he closes with an appreciation of «the greatest American painter of the twentieth century» who was «intimately concerned with the bleakness of our spirituality in the absence of God» namely, Mark Rothko.

Sometimes, it seems that instead of softening reality's edges, effulgent technologic marvels flaunt the bleakness of the human condition, underscoring the fact that all our wonderful inventions can't save us.

September 7 — October 14, 2017 The paintings in Gustavo Acosta's «Inventory of Omissions» may initially seem like discrete chapters in a visual essay on the oppressive bleakness of the modern city, but such a reading misses the point of his static but intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and Aleppo.

In these and many other paintings and drawings, Murphy transforms the bedrock bleakness of our daily life into something unforgettable.»

You'll hear of the joys and bleakness of the industry, from Peter Molyneux getting an almost sexual thrill the first time he got a pixel to move across a screen.

These environments are invariably grim, rendered in mottled browns and municipal grey, the bleakness of the urban sprawl punctuated by pulsating neon signs and road - side hoardings that take inspiration from films like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

The developers have mentioned that there will be some humour throughout the game to contrast the bleakness of the subject matter, and of course at the centre of it all is a hopefully touching character - driven story, but I hope they don't stay too far away from the horror of the war.

The aesthetic contrast between the dilapidated planet Earth and the hi - tech, commercial binge of the space station framed by the cold bleakness of space is a thing of beauty.

«I found the narrative very emotional and harrowing as it presented the bleakness of a dark and ravaged world after an extinction event.

Amidst all the bleakness of Microsoft's ergonomic and totally - the - wrong - color keyboards and Google's lipstick - on - a-pig websites, here finally was a company that understood what I had left behind at New College and was now blindly stumbling about for.

Set in WWII London, with its blackouts and frenetic parties, and then in the bleakness of Free France as...

Given the bleakness of this film's vision of the future of humanity, I don't begrudge the screenwriters (director Reeves, in collaboration with Mark Bomback) an attempt to include a single sympathetic figure from our withering branch of the hominid family tree.

A three - hour German comedy about a father and daughter reunion, set against the contemporary bleakness of corporate Bucharest.

«The Revenant» sees him backslide to the bleakness of «Amores Perros» and «Babel» but without the detailed storytelling.

I personally thought Matt Spicer's Ingrid Goes West (2017) from earlier this year perfectly encapsulated the bleakness of social media and its insidious hold on people much more chillingly.

The lower depths: Andrey Zvyagintsev's intelligent, brilliantly acted film plunges into the intoxicating bleakness of the contemporary Russian soul

JOURNEY»S END That's the beauty found in the bleakness of R.C. Sheriff's 1928 play Journey's End.

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.

Mungiu lets the bleakness of these lives seep into the soul.

If the shortcomings in this film's acting and script prevent you from suspending your disbelief for long enough to appreciate the bleakness of the atmosphere and story then try Threads instead.

It always stays true to the characters and the nature of how things generally play out in the real world, with a brilliant epilogue that gives the entire film an overall sense of the bleakness of the cold, uncaring world of drugs and crime.

While Fargo takes advantage of its snowy location, allowing it to serve as an instrumental element of the film's themes and mood, the bleakness of Cut Bank is never explored, nor the wide expanses or back woods of Montana.

The bleakness of the Sheffield landscape serves to show the barrenness of the unemployed men's lives, and acts as a backdrop to the optimism symbolised by the glamour of a strip show.

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

If you are looking for a movie to help you escape the bleakness of the year, Toni Erdmann isn't exactly going to be it.

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

There are some controversial scenes and the film labours to make a point of depicting sex in an extremely unsexy way focusing more on the bleakness of the existence of the lives of the women caught up in the sex industry.

The performances aren't to blame, and the overall tone is light enough to offset the bleakness of the plot, but somehow Married Life doesn't get out of second gear.

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.

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Cassandra's Dream, and Match Point, to name a few, but none of them compare to the bleakness of Irrational Man.

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

Life is wild and chaotic out in the middle of nowhere, but the message is still clear — it can still be preferable to the bleakness of modern society.

There were rumors that Trank was hoping to make PG - 13, summer - friendly body horror, and there are vestigial traces of that conception; it would have been better for the film to have gone all the way, for at least then the bleakness of tone would have felt like it had some actual purpose.

«Frankie escapes the bleakness of his home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online.

But the bleakness of his existence unexpectedly brightens when a fiery redhead named Marie O'Donnell (Connie Nielson) appears and tells the boy she wants to adopt him.

Out of the bleakness of the finale comes a ray of hope that, at last, Jimmy will be truly understood.

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

Rebellion is on the horizon and the bleakness of their world is apparent.

With his father on his deathbed and his mother wanting him to find a girlfriend, Frankie escapes the bleakness of his life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online.

The filmmakers accentuate the bleakness of Tonya's background.