Sentences with phrase «often bleak»

I realise the scientific community's forecast regarding the time window in which to accomplish what needs to be done to reverse our environmental destruction is most often bleak, but in a perverse way, if it weren't getting so bad, we wouldn't have a hope in hell of taking action.

Coming off an excellent survey of Richard Deacon's sculptural works, San Diego Museum of Art's new exhibition focuses on Biondo's «Playground» series, composed of beautiful and often bleak portraits of dilapidated American slides, swing sets, teeter - totters and more.

A native of Sept - Iles, Quebec, her paintings are often bleak depictions of frozen tundras or autumn trees so bright they could nearly burn a hole in the canvas.

But when we try it in reality the results are often bleak, full of stress and with very little game to show for it.

Then again, considering the heavy material that Valiant Hearts dives into often, it's not above using humor and optimism to break up the often bleak nature of things.

Lincoln's CIA sidekick, John Donavan, is also a standout and provided a much - needed dose of comedic relief in an often bleak and emotional tale.

He's well - known for his funny but often bleak, Edward Gorey - like view of the world.

Speaking of lip service, the film offers a glimmer of hope that it might address real - life issues by referencing the job crisis faced by technology - challenged middle - aged people, and then later acknowledging the often bleak prospects even for the brightest and most ambitious college graduates in today's job market.

Many viewers will be particularly off put by a feeling that the often bleak tale lacks a resolution to all of the tension, particularly through an ending that raises more questions than answers (it may help to know the story of Job to understand the significance of the final shot).

The picture - postcard beauty of the imagery is in stark contrast to a storyline, which, for all Lili's courage and determination to find her true self, is often bleak in the extreme.

Often the caretaker interventions are no more than isolating the child back to their cribs or beds where they remain depressed, despondent and somewhat confused and disoriented as the only stimulation they may have is their immediate surroundings which is often bleak and impoverished.

We are still awaiting the final outworking of what God accomplished in Jesus, but there are all kinds of signs to show that, though the situation is often bleak, we are in fact on the right road.

Photos of America during the Depression, much like the mood of the country, are often bleak, available only in black and white.

Not exact matches

Defy offers hope and job skills to a demographic that often faces bleak future prospects.

Though Stout is fully aware that the social reality is often more bleak, he confronts injustice with a passion born out of his awareness that something much better is not only possible but already exists.

In the back reaches of my mind I often encounter Little Dorritt, Little Nell, Pip, Little Em» ly; I hear Little Jo of Bleak House repeating the Lord's Prayer as he lies dying; and I see David Copperfield walking anxiously up the path to Betsy Trotwood's cottage toward hope.

We have been reading guidebooks to the area, and in one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow water.

Bleak signs for anyone hoping government departments were getting a handle on private contracts: it appears they don't even know how often firms like G4S or Serco are tendering.

Despite efforts from local officials, who are working to bring change, any future development plans often look bleak as many sites are highly contaminated from the days of Bethlehem Steel.

By blending hallucinogenic illustrations with often humorous prose, Steadman and Levy seek to bring levity to an otherwise bleak subject.

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.

Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.

By identifying the cause of this metastasis — which often happens quickly in lung cancer and results in a bleak survival rate — Salk scientists are able to explain why some tumors are more prone to spreading than others.

But in the past decade, a series of increasingly spectacular experiments conducted by Giacino and Weill Cornell Medical Center neurologist Nicholas Schiff has proved that this bleak verdict is often wrong.

I always buy boring coloured shoes because they are «safe», but I often end up somewhat regretting being this boring... especially when sometimes a bit of a daring colour can cast a completely new light on an otherwise bleak and simple outfit.

While Babette's Feast is bleak, and often ponderous and stony, it eventually resolves as a moving hymn to art.

It would be impossible to deliver something as bleak, unsettling, and compelling as [David Bowie's] «Blackstar» has posthumously become, but more often than not, when it counts, The Last Panthers delivers.

The best part of Lars von Trier's fascinating, engaging and often didactic Nymphomaniac is that, despite the sometimes - grim tone and bleak color palate, it's an extremely funny film, playful, even.

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

Suffused with the bleak acidity of a time when films often ended with the hero (or heroine) going up in a ball of flame.

And for a director whose films have often been bleak and almost clinically detached, Light Sleeper presents Schrader in a new and philosophically redemptive light.

Rather than attempting the stylistic ferocity of Alejandro González Iñárritu or Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, Soto opts for a more lyrical approach, often delivering sequences that are hauntingly beautiful while also unflinchingly bleak.

It sounds bleak, and it often is, but as the story unfolds, we bear witness to a town full of cleverly developed characters who all have something intriguing to throw into the debate.

Things still occasionally devolve into «run through this burning structure while everything onscreen wrecks around you» kinds of moments, and they still undermine the bleak and haunting mood that's often pulled off.

The bleak but often starkly beautiful streets of Inverness — Gillan's hometown — play as big of a role in The Party's Just Beginning as Greta Gerwig's sunny Sacramento neighborhoods do in Lady Bird.

It's a Western, of sorts, impossibly bleak, familiar, at times, but singular and often mystifying in its sun - bleached and dust - veiled designs.

A very impressive debut from director Oren Moverman who also co-scripted but also a very bleak and depressing drama, dealing with a part of war that is so often overlooked.

Despite the films bleak subject matter and flashback structure that — although handled well, does — at times, break the momentum of the here and now, Away (trailer) remains a thrilling and often extremely moving character drama, that is anchored by two exceptional central performances.

This is yet another movie with a strong ensemble: Terry Notary, Karin Konoval, and Michael Adamthwaite push the boundaries of performance capture, and Amiah Miller and Steve Zahn inject the bleak, often gut - wrenching proceedings with a spark of hope and humor.

The early scenes are often set in bleak and darkened environments.

In the case of Elle, scathing social critique takes the shape of a frequently bleak and often vicious satire.

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone also trafficked in stories loaded with themes and messages that reflected on society, and more often than not they ended on bleak, unforgiving notes.

5 - Samuel Beckett: Widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Beckett's works often offered a bleak tragicomic outlook on human nature, coupled with gallows humor.

WOLFSBURG, Germany — The mood in this often dreary factory city seems bleaker than ever on this cold and blustery day.

While The Driest Season is not perfect, it manages to be an affecting novel because of how it interprets the grieving process through prose and finds hope and goodness in a world that can all too often appear exhaustingly bleak.

The Bridesmaid, Ruth Rendell (1989) Though well known for her Inspector Wexford series, Rendell's standalone psychological suspense novels are darker, bleaker and clearly influenced by Patricia Highsmith, often adopting the criminal's point of view.

Kittens found outdoors and relinquished to shelters often face a bleak, short future.

Dogs may dislike a crate because it is too small or too restrictive to stay in; it has a bleak interior (lacking toys, blankets and treats), the crate has been previously used to punish the pup, or the pup is often forced to get into the crate when it does not want.

The Oregon Coast is often as you might imagine it: bleak, dark, stormy, rough seas.

Using the Unreal 3 engine Bulletstorm only occasionally sinks back into the bleak colors the engine is often used for.