Sentences with phrase «on bleak days»

Office caravans may need a jump start on bleak days, too.

On those bleak days where the rain is pouring and the wind is up, be thankful your dog is fine with a walk around the block and pity the person with the typical Toller who is soaked through and hypothermic in comparison.

A gym membership, yearly vacation bonus, or free meals in a canteen are things that can lift one's spirits on a bleak day.

Not exact matches

Against this bleak backdrop, Venezuela's year - on - year production losses are likely to total at least 800,000 barrels a day this year based on current trends and could top the 1 million barrels a day mark.

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.

On an otherwise bleak day when Bombardier announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years, the company also issued a rare, long - awaited piece of good news: Air Canada has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 75 CSeries aircraft.

When things seemed bleak later, they looked back on Buytopia's early days and thought: We've been through far worse.

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClureOn June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClureon Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

One day it's as bleak as late autumn with winds that howl and rain that raps on the window pains.

So many thanks for warming my cold house with this yummy recipe on such a bleak and rainy day!

So, when it snows (and Mother Nature saw fit to drop 10 ″ in the last 12 hours), I turn to one of my favorite soups for comfort on this bleak February day.

A tall, kindly man of 57, Willett works seven days a week, even on holidays, in the bleak labyrinth of Bell Labs, pursuing his goal with an uncommonly single - minded devotion.

I've gained an extra 10 lbs overnight, have raging PMS, or am super depressed and have spent the entire day eating chips in my PJs binge watching bleak melancholic foreign films on Netflix.

Try it, it can give you a lift and make you smile on an otherwise bleak day.

Nothing to perk you up on a bleak winter day like good date.

On one of her lonelier days, facing a bleak blank page with zero inspiration, that.

But Herbert Ross» Pennies from Heaven» (based on the UK miniseries of the same name by Dennis Potter) is an astounding achievement that juxtaposes the lively musical numbers of the day with the bleak existence many faced in the 1920s.

Dark Places tells the exceptionally bleak story of Libby Day (Charlize Theron), the survivor of the brutal massacre of her family decades earlier, for which her brother Ben (Corey Stoll) was convicted, largely based on her testimony.

Seven Days Sunday is a necessarily bleak retelling of an horrific real - life occurrence, that like many films of its nature raises several possible explanations without ever being able to settle on one.

London just looks like it's been caught on a bad day — a little shabbier than usual, a little bleaker.

A few days after Carrey gave a bizarre, existentially bleak interview on the red carpet at a New York Fashion Week event, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Carrey will star in a Showtime comedy series cal... Read more

«Know your lines, turn up on time and do what the director tells you,» Robert Mitchum elaborated, but if ever there was an actor at odds with those bleak, pragmatic mantras it's Daniel Day - Lewis.

Also Worthy and Worthwhile «Keep The Lights On,» «Neighboring Sounds,» «A Royal Affair» (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard guy should have also been in our Breakout Performances of 2012 piece), «The Forgiveness Of Blood» (already Criterion approved with good reason), «Shut Up and Play the Hits,» «Compliance» (captivatingly ugly), «2 Days In New York» (hilariously neurotic, Julie Delpy is clearly the heir apparent to Woody Allen), «Cosmopolis,» «Side By Side,» «Argo,» «The Turin Horse» (Goodnight, Mr. Tarr you sweet prince of the bleak and wretched), «Once Upon A Time In Anatolia» (in many ways mesmerizing and beautiful, but for me, ultimately more in a cerebral way than in a moving, emotional one), «Goodbye Love» (Mia Hansen - Love clearly watches the films of her husband Olivier Assayas; a spiritual cousin to his last 3 - 4 pictures), «Elena,» «Francine» (great non-judgemental direction; Melissa Leo is terrific), «Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,» «Alps,» «The Loneliest Planet,» «The Kid With The Bike» and pretty much every film in our 11 Films You May Not Have Seen list.

A version of this archives appears in print on February 9, 1968, on Page 55 of the New York edition with the headline: Bleak College Days.

Villeneuve's somber thriller opens with the disappearance of two young girls on a bleak, chilly Thanksgiving Day in small - town Pennsylvania.

U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan spoke these grim words on the bleak December day in late 2013 when the international tests in math, science, and literacy were released.

I can't quite believe that I read an article this morning from the Heads» Round Table, the headline of which was: «Heads warn MPs of «extremely bleak» funding problems»; and in the week I read that the EEF were to spend # 2.5 million on a trial to assess the educational benefits of school trips to the theatre; and now we learn that Frank Green earns # 140,000 plus for a four day week.

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

No doubt about it, Snetterton has a feel of the past and even 60 years later the reasons for its origin can still make it a bleak and desolate place on a cold day.

The dogs bring a moment of happiness on what may be a bleak day, and that's a gift.

Aside from this rather bleak part of Con Son, the island has plenty of unspoilt beaches where you can enjoy a day of sunbathing, swimming, and dining on fresh seafood.

This new launch trailer paints a bleak picture for the COGs and Sera after the Locust invade on Emergence Day.

By: Erin Sheley PDF Version: Dogs Getting Their Day: Alberta Court of Appeal Rejects End - runs Around Animal Cruelty Laws Case Commented On: Regina v Sanaee, 2016 ABCA 289 (CanLII) The year 2016 has been bleak for animals in Canada.

Spring amazes me every year, we live with this bleak and bare landscape all winter, which seems to just go on forever, then all of a sudden these leaves and flowers start blooming and before I know it everything is green and lush again, birds are fluttering everywhere gathering food for their babies, the days get longer, and the air smells of all kinds of different flowers, right now I have lilacs and lily of the valley scenting the air.

The colors and patterns are uplifting and conjure up memories and thoughts of lush summer days, even on a bleak wintry day.

Otherwise, I'd worry about doing the paler / crisper blue shades as to how they'd look, and feel, on a bleak January day.