Sentences with phrase «last bleak year»
A routine interview between a reporter and an elderly baker brings out memories of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII.
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For Elsie, Reba's questions are a stinging reminder of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII.
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Asked why more people are sleeping rough, Mr Quagliozzi answered: «We've a perfect storm over the last few years where rising rents - particularly in the private rental sector, wages not going up as fast of those rents and welfare reform are contributing to a very bleak picture...»
This paints a bleak picture for the Gunners, but if the last 18 years has taught us anything it is that the club tends to find a way of securing its place in the Champions League
I maintain what I said in last year's preview — that the future isn't as bleak as you might think — but now's the year for Whipple to prove that.
Espn soccernet had on fergie marvellous 25 years, not forgetting the amount of luck on his side and the 12 man the referee at old trafford on his side, got to hand it to him he knows how to find, manage and disperse of players, wish I could say the same for mr wenger for last half of a decade, I not going to rant about wenger and the dissapointments but I ask for fans not to put down all their cards in favour of arsenal performances as history looks bleak as wenger hasn't taken us over to the trophy cabinet exploration for a while.
Industry regulator Postcomm claims post offices lost # 111 million last year, despite the # 150 million annual subsidy for rural branches, and says the situation looks bleak.
After the Senate's failure to do its job threatened scientists with a very bleak year ahead, Congress comes through with a last - minute reprieve
If a new study conducted by Blue Cross Blue Shield is any indication, the last five years have been pretty bleak mental health-wise.
Having released on computer and Xbox One last year, its arrival on PlayStation 4 with the Complete Edition will hopefully see it find a new audience to entice on a beautiful, and bleak, journey down the river.
His name is Richard E. Grant, and his first big movie role was last year in the bleak, knife - edged comedy «Withnail and I.» He played a dark - eyed, lantern - faced, intense loner with spite for everybody.
Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»
Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life - on - the - margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres.
Directed with the usual dark and bleak look of Zack Snyder films like last year's fan disappointment Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new movie fails to find the fun in all of this and ranks as a setback for the genre after three previous winners this year: Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming and the current Thor: Ragnarok.
It has been two years since we last checked in with Earn (Glover), his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry) and the delightfully weird and sensitive Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) trying to catch a big break in the bleak suburbs of Atlanta, and nothing much has changed.
Land of Mine punches you in the gut repeatedly, although at least it isn't as relentlessly bleak and zoned - in as last year's Foreign Language winner, the Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of Saul.
Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»
The prospects of a second outing for Ron, Brick, Brian and Champ seemed bleak when Paramount Pictures decided against making a sequel in 2011, but a deal was finally brokered last year to make Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues a reality.
Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»
Though economic outlooks are rather bleak right now, the national average credit score has risen one point since last year, perhaps indicating Americans moving toward financial responsibility.
Despite a bleak economy, the percentage of pets in homes that were adopted from animal shelters and rescue groups has risen from 27 percent to 29 percent in the last two years, with the number of healthy and treatable pets losing their lives for lack of a home dropping from 3 million to 2.7 million.
Like Napa and Sonoma after the fires, much of Big Sur could use a little extra tourism after a bleak tourism season last year.
The software sales «predictions» are equally bleak, with an expected 23 percent decline in July sales compared to the same time period last year.
Both Trainspotting and Young Adam, the two big Scots films of the last few years, are both pretty bleak and existential in nature.
Photographed across the U.S. over the course of the last three years, some 35 photographs find beauty in the characteristically bleak: a gritty hand or dangling roadkill; a shaggy - haired «junkie» in Tacoma; a tattooed mechanic, tucked under the body of a Mercedes 280 Coup; a driver holding a gleaming Cadillac wheel with wire spokes.
Last year was so bleak for smartwatches that I even declared they were dying.