Sentences with phrase «pretty bleak»

Actually, the first four years of the blog were pretty bleak and raw, documenting an unhappy marriage as it slowly crumbled.

I've got to admit, 2014 looked pretty bleak at the outset, but it's ending so damn fine.

That garage I have gets pretty bleak in rainy weather.

If an agent specializes in one of those sub-markets, things can seem pretty bleak.

Research tells us that a few sessions with a couples counselor are better than good intentions and well - meaning promises when it comes to seeing your marriage survive some pretty bleak divorce statistics.

Yeah, it sounds pretty bleak, but take a deep breath.

Considering Nokia Lumia has almost always been the only Windows Phone manufacturer that has had any real success (if you can call it that), the whole situation sounds pretty bleak.

A month later we met with members of your staff for the first time, Josh had a traumatic brain injury and his future was looking pretty bleak; we had no idea where he would be eighteen months later.

Both were pretty bleak.

This picture makes the outlook for these new solar installers look pretty bleak.

The only trouble is, it makes for some pretty bleak viewing.

This is a pretty bleak picture of what, for example, the U.S. will look like: a 21st century army of Joads escaping an interior apocalypse, only to arrive at the coasts to find the cities flooded under hundreds of feet of water.

Much depends on the price of natural gas, and looking at the data, the supply / demand picture looks pretty bleak.

Both Trainspotting and Young Adam, the two big Scots films of the last few years, are both pretty bleak and existential in nature.

Trapped in a cage by a powerful and mysterious sorcerer, life seems pretty bleak on the onset of the game.

How could you blame someone that seems like a pretty bleak outlook!

If they are happy with their frankly actually pretty bleak lives then all is well, but if they get too unhappy they'll rebel by setting fire to stuff and punching people.

If this was just simply a block buster or other puzzle game with a very basic premise that would be fine, but the minute you add a story you start wanting to see something more than badly drawn monsters and pretty bleak looking backdrops.

He painted a pretty bleak picture for small and independent retailers, saying that his own operation of several stores was simply not getting the same great terms that suppliers were giving to larger chains and Internet businesses.

A: I didn't want to get into prognoses in the last email, because I don't have a lot of personal experience and the literature paints a pretty bleak picture.

A few statistics can paint a pretty bleak picture.Currently, there are -LSB-...]

A few statistics can paint a pretty bleak picture.

If you recall, last summer, we appeared to face a pretty bleak outlook both sides of the Atlantic: The fiscal cliff in the US & the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.

June looked pretty bleak, but just as the major U.S. averages reached a 5 % correction, stocks reclaimed some lost ground and ended the first half of the year with the largest January through June gains since 1999.

With California mortgage lenders going bankrupt and sub-prime mortgage companies going out of business, things are looking pretty bleak.

Tucson may be the sunniest city in the United States but when it comes to credit scores, the weather has been looking pretty bleak.

The future looks pretty bleak.

That smoke signal picture is pretty bleak!

Nevada is pretty bleak until you get to Vegas, so I was most appreciative of the navigation system, which kept us visible on the map even when our cell phones were totally out of service for hours at a time.

But if the question becomes one of wider social justice — of not just helping a few more individuals succeed within a very unequal society, but helping to make that society fairer overall — the prospects must look pretty bleak.

Now the council is applying to four cross-borough schools — all of which I've called, and the likelihood of a place looks pretty bleak.

A year - and - a-half later, following the appointment of Neil Gorsuch, the prospects look good for Janus, and, as they did leading up to Friedrichs, pretty bleak for agency fees and the union strength that depends on them.

«Seven years ago, the future of an Eminence student was pretty bleak,» said Berry, reflecting on this small community of 2,500 about 30 miles from Louisville.

The news in England is pretty bleak.

Without spoiling anything, Villeneuve has arguably made a film with more hope than Scott's, though it's pretty bleak too.

But his newest venture finds him working from an original (and pretty bleak) concept: a dystopian future in which dogs live on a quarantined island.

We get a pretty bleak, yet coherent, film for the first 65 %.

I can only hope that Man of Steel picks up the torch... otherwise it's pretty bleak for comic fans.

Meanwhile, «Children of Men» is a pretty bleak Christmas movie, centering around a world where women have stopped giving birth.

Pretty bleak.

Yes, this is all pretty bleak stuff, with the addition of a dramatic mournful score.

Dating in the 21st century is pretty bleak.

It may be because of this that the dating scene in the city has been said to be in a pretty bleak state for many years.

The old cliche is that the dating pool in your 30's is pretty bleak and I can say that's very true.

cause i got ta say this is looking pretty bleak.

Usually, research findings on the state of U.S. race relations are pretty bleak.

cause I got ta say this is looking pretty bleak.

Things seemed pretty bleak.

I love the colours — and January is pretty bleak and definitely needs all the colours.

If a new study conducted by Blue Cross Blue Shield is any indication, the last five years have been pretty bleak mental health-wise.