Sentences with phrase «less bleak»

For those not buying the basic evolutionary argument for mate selection the outlook is less bleak.

But when you take a look at the overall data, the picture is far less bleak.

But at ground level, the picture is more complicated and less bleak.

Friday night, things get a little less bleak city - wide.

Looking at the total returns for the Vanguard Total Bond tracker (VBMFX) is much less bleak at 5.9 % for the year and 4.94 % for 10 years.

However, it would have been nice to see similar subject matter with a cast of actors more suitable to their parts, some crisper writing, and less bleak, claustrophobic direction.

The movie is definitely not as «fun» as the others (Knight was equally dark, but it was also more tense and exciting and less bleak), but it remains potent and admirable due to the crafting.

In recent months, star Denis Leary and his co - creator / producer Peter Tolan have repeatedly promised a different show, one less bleak and heavy - footed than Season 4, and on this they most certainly deliver.

With summer now in mid swing and the weather starting to look less bleak (always in July), it's now time to soak in the suns rays and feel the warmth on our skin.

Later in the 1970s, theorists used new analyses and some of the first computational plasma physics studies to show that the picture was much less bleak than originally thought.

The teleportation situation becomes much less bleak if you bend the definition a bit, however.

Wringing your hands over what could have been won't make the actual situation any less bleak.

Not exact matches

The hope isn't to make the workspace less professional or productive — it's that, when given a space that isn't bleak and boring, employees will enjoy doing their work and be more productive as a result.

In a quest to get economic activity churning again, the Fed and other growth - hungry central banks are running headlong into a bleak irony — the longer they stick with extraordinary measures, the less extraordinary those measures become.

No less a figure than John Henry Newman may once have argued that «English Literature will ever have been Protestant» [Newman 1852, 314] but, as authors from G.K Chesterton [1928, 236 - 242] to Ian Ker [2003,1 - 12] have argued since, the literary outlook was never quite so bleak for Catholics.

Things were so bleak that the team's P.A.announcer had been told not to introduce the coaches before the game, thusgiving local fans one less chance to boo Winter.

Perhaps if he had been born ugly rather than so endlessly attractive to sometimes predatory women — though he was no angel himself — things would have been less ultimately sad and bleak.

Still, that didn't work so well for politically active women and behind the scenes another bleaker, less cheerful narrative operated in respect of men and women alike.

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.

«The increased death rate is cause for concern, because the prognosis for this tumour is bleak, with less than five percent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.

The malignancy often remains undiagnosed until the cancer has spread, leaving patients with a bleak prognosis and a five - year survival rate of less than 30 percent.

The prospects for that condition are bleak enough to allow for a degree of risk that might not be acceptable in less serious types of cancer, Gorelick concludes.

Mercury's bleak, airless surface is similar to the moon's, so scientists have long been puzzled why the planet reflects so much less light than our lunar satellite.

You are also less likely to be emotionally affected by the bleak weather.

It's also less grim than its predecessor, which may please more viewers while they're watching, but ultimately leaves less of an impression than it might if it took a bleaker route to the end.

Over their shoulders, we could see a real world, the world of Times Square in the 1960s, which at the time seemed bleak and dangerous — but in the less innocent 1990s seems positioned half - way between our current despair and lingering myths of Damon Runyon.

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.

Director Justin Chadwick (BBC's «Bleak House» and «The Other Boleyn Girl») had more recently made the South African - set «The First Grader» on a less epic scale.

Adele sings the opening title track and it plays over an unusual opening credits graphical sequence — somewhat bleaker than we are accustomed to, but no less dramatic.

Less dialogue, more action, and a lot of bleak landscapes to set the tone of the film.

However, I should explain that my prediction is led less by any conviction that the milquetoast Academy voters will get the thrilling formal invention and conversational artistry of «The Class» — and believe me, if they do, you'll hear my cheers from across the Atlantic — than by an instinctive suspicion that they will not get the avant - garde visual stylings and bleak anti-narrative of presumed frontrunner «Waltz With Bashir.»

But it's not simply bleak, it does chart an incredible, if incremental change in its lead character that a lesser film would paint in simpler, brighter colors to end on a note of hope.

It feels now like a slight wheeling back on the bleak existentialism of the peerless «The Dark Knight,» delivering more in the way of outright entertainment (Anne Hathaway's Catwoman, for example) but maybe a little less in terms of braininess and coherent philosophy.

The stage is set for a tale as bleak as a Warsaw winter, but beneath the icy surface, emotions run surprisingly deep, thanks to a captivating central performance of the less - is - more variety.

For dropouts, the economic picture is even bleaker: According to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, over a working lifetime from ages 18 to 64, high school dropouts are estimated to earn about $ 400,000 less than those with diplomas.

The bleak future where all bookstores have gone out of business never occurred and e-book sales have more or less stabilized.

With a credit score less than 700 you may believe that your chances of getting a loan are bleak.

American Airlines has announced the changes to the AAdvantage program and it looks very bleak — Elite qualifying dollars are here and status means less than ever.

The visuals are fine, channeling a heavy anime aesthetic with a colorful cast, but the engine looks less impressive than it did a year ago, and the whole game seems darker and bleaker.

Although Weegee is best known for his bleak shots of New York City crime scenes in the 1930s and «40s, he also had an eye for the less gritty, more playful aspects of urban life.

Other artists are less guarded and more self - parodic, delighting in the absurd and the abject: the wonderful Boris Mikhailov, gleeful with a dildo, bleak and comic with the rubber bag and enema tube; Marcel Duchamp, femmed up as demure coquette Rrose Sélavy in Man Ray's portraits; Joseph Beuys in his fisherman's vest and trilby.

Landscape With Dog Shit Bin (2010) is one of his less romantic titles; but he can also give his bleak, Midlands views grand titles from the annals of art history, such as Assumption.

Chart of temperatures and dust in Antarctic ice cores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png demonstrates that the planet is much windier (more dust), bleak and dry when the planet is colder; less dust when warmer — i.e. warmer is good

A recent study8 examining peer status in clinically - diagnosed 7 — 9 year old children with ADHD from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA) 9,10 found that 52 % fell in the rejected category (when the classification system of Coie et al11 is used) and less than 1 % were of popular status.8 When children who did not fit into any category were excluded in calculating these percentages, the situation was even more bleak, with 80 % of children with ADHD falling in the rejected group.8 These figures are consistent with previous work indicating that 82 % of children with ADHD have peer rejection scores one standard deviation or more above the mean and 60 % are two standard deviations or more above the mean.12