Sentences with phrase «despairing picture»

The Day the Earth Stood Still comments on the dangers of nuclear knowledge without corresponding human wisdom; On the Beach paints a despairing picture of a world destroyed through unbridled nuclear warfare.

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My first thought, given the continuing tough job market in academia, was to picture despairing Ph.D.'s pondering whether the time had come to begin hormone treatments.

We see the vivid picture of despairing, painful response from Jesus, «I never knew you,» and the command (quoted from Psalm 6:8), «Depart from me, all you workers of evil.»

In the weekend press, we have Tristan Hunt despairing about the inability of the leadership candidates to offer a big picture alternative — in his view dealing with the trivia.

Its tone spans the gamut from exultant to despairing, the content decidedly adult in places for a picture that looks like something Charles Schulz might've drawn on acid and the jabs Satrapi takes at American policy are gentle all things considered.

To give you some idea of what Harvey and Bob think of Charles Burnett's The Glass Shield, they blocked the film's release for a full year, forced Burnett to write and direct a less blunt and despairing ending after some test - marketing, refused to let the original version be shown at a Burnett retrospective in New York, and finally, after sending Burnett on a few interviews, shoved the picture out earlier this month.