Sentences with phrase «from bleak»

Headlines about the U.S. economy range from bleak to pragmatic to hopeful.

I encourage you to read the accompanying resume for full details on how I have contributed to saving animals from a bleak future, by joining hands with PETA.

The future for small - and mid-sized law firms is far from bleak, but we do have to face up to the reality of changes in our profession and the market that we serve.

... Dr. Ehrlich, now 83, is not retreating from his bleak prophesies.

From the bleak and alienated roads of the dust bowl to the frenetic and celebratory halls of tickertape parades, Bullyhoo Hullabaloo Haboob is reminds of the tumults of history.

Taking inspiration from del Toro's extraordinary imagination, At Home with Monsters reveals his creative process through his personal collection of art, artefacts, books, and props, all culled from Bleak House, del Toro's creative haven located in Los Angeles.

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»:

Over on West Twenty - Second Street, visitors dove out of the cold into openings for Nayland Blake and Darren Almond at two Matthew Marks galleries, clearly happy to have art to distract them from the bleak landscape outside.

Considering that the OASIS was considered the real world to many — an escape from a bleak reality — the economic benefits of controlling the world was incredible.

The game world Eorzea looks pretty sweet too, a radical move from the bleak art style of Final Fantasy XI.

Now with the passage of time and an improved economy, the homeownership itch has returned for many of these former homeowners, but this time with an additional concern: What to do about the derogatory credit still remaining from those bleak times?

His novel Fizz is available from Bleak House Books.

You live the year with us, from the bleak frozenness of January, to the blossoming of life in April, to the heavy heat of July and August, the colours and freshness of October, and back to the deep depths of winter.

But this sector's most significant accomplishment has been extricating disadvantaged children from bleak prospects in dire inner - city schools and placing them on the path to college and upward mobility.

In Fury, the new World War II thriller from filmmaker David Ayer, the actor moves from the bleak horror realm of The Walking Dead to an even more intense, and all - too - real, landscape: the Allied incursion into Nazi Germany.

We can have moments of escape from a bleak reality via stories and movies of imagination and beauty.

«By the Sea» provides a needed break from the bleak aesthetics for a colorful and hilarious trip into Mrs. Lovett's imagination at just the right time.

Now in its fifth season, Showtime's timely, chilling series once again unspooled slowly, creating tension not only from the machinations of U.S. and German intelligence officials, but also from the bleak truth, as Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) avers, that the so - called «War on Terror» isn't going to end anytime soon.

Some use it as an escape from their bleak lives, while others are attempting to solve the mysteries of the 3 keys.

Without getting into spoilers, it's worth noting that the harsh turns that friendships and relationships took during the course of Season 3 aren't easily forgiven, speaking to the way in which «BoJack» has never flinched from bleak emotional honesty in contrast to its more fantastical elements.

From the bleak settings and synth - heavy soundtrack to the hyper - stylized violence and hints of body horror, this film would feel right at home next to Carpenter's early output like «Assault on Precinct 13» and «Halloween.»

Both stories contain deaf children who, despite being audibly - impaired, run away from their bleak small towns to NYC where they're left to their own devices in the overwhelmingly big apple.

In the resonant words of Joan, Sylvia's fugitive character, whose frank loyalty to Fonda and her baby brings self destruction and release from a bleak world, we «may never find happiness, but we have a right to live.»

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

While the statistics may seem scary, the reality is far from bleak.

Add in the fact that over 50 % of single men will contact women with children than those without, the forecast for starting over post-divorce is far from bleak.

But to the scientists who study them, bogs are far from bleak.

He stated that the programme would target not less than 60 per cent of Nigerian population, and between 10 million and 20 million Nigerian youths would be saved from a bleak future.

A pinch of this, a dash of that and a teaspoon of the other; we all know how our culinary woes can go from bleak and b...

The New Zealand dairy co-operative's chairman, John Wilson, said farmers» incomes continued to come under pressure but Fonterra's focus on higher value and more profitable products had helped mitigate the fallout from the bleak global outlook.

People will clearly believe any silly fantasy to insulate themselves from the bleak fact that the universe does not care about them.

Many would argue, however, that Amazon has been a positive for the postal service, which has suffered from bleak finances for more than a decade as other means of communication replace first class mail.

In the post she writes about her experiences with various programs offering to give founders from a break from the bleak winter months by organizing working trips to warmer locales.

As Crosby said, the consequences from that bleak transformation could be more severe than most of us can imagine.

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If you use a smartphone, the numbers are bleaker still — you're tethered to work for 13.5 hours a day, with another five hours spent emailing on weekends, according to a 2012 survey from the Center for Creative Leadership.

With Research In Motion falling from favour, things look bleak for our nation's tech industry, but there is hope.

She put together a report, called Project Diane, to show just how much venture capital goes to women of color, and the results are bleak: Of 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black women.

From there the piece explains how Lindell found his first essential piece of manufacturing equipment rusting in a farm field and counted cards at the blackjack table to pay for materials during one particularly bleak phase.

Libya's future is still very bleak, while Nigeria's and Iraq's production increases are far from certainties.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

So far in 2018, it's been the opposite story — from an unfriendly new Pennsylvania map to Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement and bleak special election results.

Conversely, the returns from short - selling or option hedges appear misleadingly enticing when measured only from market peak - to - trough, and misleadingly bleak when measured only from market trough - to - peak.

Bleaker economic numbers from new Bank of Canada forecasts fly in the face of the Harper government's vision of a string of surpluses

SINGAPORE, Oct 30 (Reuters)-- The outlook for oil and natural gas markets remains bleak for the rest of the year and much of 2016, meaning there will be no let up in pressure to control costs, executives from two European energy majors said.

The outlook for oil and natural gas markets remains bleak for the rest of the year and much of 2016, executives from two European energy majors say.

But then Cheever reveals the bleak truth (which the television rendering of the story sentimentally avoids): Lawton is awakened from his spiritual stupor only to lapse immediately back into it.

We can not consign children to a bleak future dependent on the whims of Mum's latest boyfriend and occasional visits from a social worker committed to the sort of agenda described above.

I feel that what must be done is to bring the «absurd hero» within the context of a revised, naturalistic, neo-Whiteheadian ontology — this merger will dispel the harshness of bleak despair from the one position and the remnants of parsonage Victorianism from the other as it links creative insecurity, adventure, with a more penetrating metaphysical analysis than the existentialists were ever able to achieve.

«The human prospect», to use a phrase from the title of Heilbroner's book, 11 is bleak.

While you — You so successfully kept from me your sufferings Your «bleak clouds,» your dark discouragements, Your self - blame.