Sentences with phrase «into bleakness»

It may sound unfair, but it's also more real, and is perhaps Stoic's way of drumming into you the bleakness and hopelessness of trying to lead in the most dire of situations.

Thomas Q. Napper draws a fine line between sports and drama delving into the bleakness and destitute life of Johnny, overshadowed by the seedy underbelly of the boxing circuit.

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

But unfortunately, he wasn't able to create anything of any note and almost withered into the bleakness of the game.

Not exact matches

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.»

So the Plessy doctrine ended up plunging the Negro into the abyss of exploitation where he experienced the bleakness of nagging injustice.

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

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

Beauty balances the bleakness, however, as Thubron suggests that suffering allows us to metamorphose into something very different and infinitely wondrous.

He gets tricked and releases Bleakness, the anti-color (see below), into the world.

There doesn't appear to be any sort of positive outcome the deeper you get into the story either, which represents the bleakness he spoke of.

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

This optimism lost much of its credibility as the»60s counterculture fizzled into paranoia and bleakness during the Nixon years.