As a rule, viruses, microbes, and parasites do not kill the majority of their victims—the pest that wipes out its host species has a bleak evolutionary future. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe because the alternative is so bleak, I’ve grown to like the sewing room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Little was I aware that that first bleak Christmas was a portent for many similar ones to come. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Is there anyone who you can look at now who you felt was very bleak back then but has changed around? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tone was right—loving and brave—but the details seemed bleak. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our life in New York was so bleak, and we clung to it with such an unsteady grip, that I doubt my da had much he would want to report. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her hand flew to her bosom, grasping at the old brooch that fastened her shawl, and her face went bleak. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth trusted only a few close friends with the bleak truth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Reynie, who had been watching Sticky in bleak despair, noted which button Mr. Curtain pressed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His answering smile was bleak and disappeared immediately. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I just hate showing houses in the winter. Everything always looks so bleak.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was gravity in her, but nothing grim or bleak. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If this was it, his vision was a bleak, uneasy one. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Virtue, bleak and drawn, was her only mooring. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He looks at me, his eyes bleak with misery. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had visited the bleak housing projects and seen how people there were fighting each day for survival. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Opening her eyes, she knew at once what had happened and the bleak knowledge made her shut her eyes again. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were the echoes of nostalgia I heard in the crying strings of wild geese winging south against a bleak, autumn sky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This life that she had once hated no longer seemed so bleak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape below them was a bleak, ash-gray plain bristling with black trees, like insect hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The part of Germany I was in was bleak, flat, and dreary. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bleak area shown here was the largest playground in the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The dream receded and left him there, in his bed, alone—stranded in the merciless intransigence of reality, and it was as bleak a truth to his soul as the nothingness of the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Baba sensed my lack of genuine interest and resigned himself to the bleak fact that his son was never going to either play or watch soccer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The crossing had been hard: bleak and monotonous, physically and mentally grueling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A bleak season came upon the island—a rotting monsoon or a parched summer—and fruit supplies dwindled drastically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Outside, the night wind howled, bleak and black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bleak morning light made the windows gray. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Was it lonely and bleak in the office? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The future for us in Kraków looked bleak. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Is Angel okay up there?” he asked, glancing up at the bleak and depressing apartment building. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belknap found it bleak and strange, with passages that struck off in unexpected directions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She stared at me and I saw a deep, bleak sadness there, inside of her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A savage raised his hand and the chief turned a bleak, painted face toward him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We were soon transferred to the Johannesburg Prison, popularly known as the Fort, a bleak, castle-like structure located on a hill in the heart of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the goose was beating his wings powerfully, throwing snow over the tracks they’d made; and near him, fire lost daemons were clustering or drifting away, crying little bleak cries of loss and longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Jolly spot to spend a carefree hour,” Luke said, standing in the doorway regarding the bleak room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The higher they climbed, the more the bleak land spread out below them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Though our future prospects were worse than bleak, I was still hoping we could save my parents and at least some of the other patients. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ahead there loomed now against the dusky sky the bleak and treeless backs of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now that Eric was working—and his job at Andersen was actually a little livelier than Jesse’s, with more young people around—-he was still feeling bleak, it seemed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His day to day on the estate consisted of conducting sordid parties in the big house and putting his slaves to bleak amusements, forcing them to serve as his victims in Cora’s stead. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This would turn out to be true, but in the fallow days of late 1956 and early 1957, Livermore’s future looked bleak. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He meditated a moment, weariness flowing through him like a bleak slow wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled, bleak, and said, “First we have to cross the Ice.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chuck was too short for his eyes to reach where Thomas could see them as he spoke, but from his next statement, Thomas imagined them filling with a bleak sadness, maybe even tears. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the world was a bleak emptiness of windswept hills and rocky fields spotted with snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The defendants should receive clemency, he said, otherwise the future of South Africa would be bleak. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The future was so bleak, Nhamo refused to think about it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting on toward the end of February, a time of only bleak light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The climate itself made for an ease of living that could never be duplicated in this bleak, barren countryside. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were joined to one another in faded slumping rows, and on shabby corners, people were hunched in puffy jackets, black and bleak people waiting for buses, the air around them hazed in gloom. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes focused on the bleak, unpainted spectator stands, abandoned for so long that tiny plants had started to push their green heads through the cracks in the cement. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Also I can’t say that the bleak aftermath of a special agent’s unsuccessful mission has anything to recommend it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The older ones, some of whom had already lost parents of their own and who had seen it before, simply looked bleak and stayed dumb. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Influenced, I suspect, by a bleak melancholic strain in Irish Catholicism, the nuns portrayed God as a judge. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He had not smiled, and neither had I. He looked curiously at my bleak room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare out the window at the bleak gray sky while she busily prepares me something to eat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But even as he said it, Jemmy felt a bleak discomfort. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

At night, regular blackouts plunged it into an infernally bleak darkness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Grey light leaked through the shutters, promising another bleak cold day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Many of them looked to have been worked by hands, though now they lay tumbled and ruinous in a bleak, barren land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But as the wave expended its force and the waters withdrew, the bleak rocks remained; there was no arguing with fate; neither his despair nor Lyra’s had moved them a single inch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On this afternoon, trekking across the bleak Plateau of Drume, he hated elves with a passion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I said nothing, on my face I registered the bleak look of a defendant who knows the court will never be swayed by all the favorable evidence he has. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was something so bleak about her last words: He’ll never let me go. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The length of her limbs and the beauty of her face were of no use to Miyax as she lay on the lichen-speckled frost heave in the midst of the bleak tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the further shores the woodlands still marched on southwards as far as the eye could see, but all the banks were bleak and bare. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock Doctor Copeland sat at his desk, studying a sheaf of papers by the bleak morning light from the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was bare and bleak and the autumn wind whistled through the chinks in the earthen wall. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Your kindness may be meanness now, and your bleak honesty fretful and conniving. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t say anything more—Mr. Pignati wedged right between us—as we rolled along the bleak pathways of the zoo. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now he found himself staring at the bleak walls of death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Please, she thought, desperate for the bleak velvet of its nothingness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After Granny and my mother left, I reclined on top of a huge boulder nearby and gazed eastward at the flickering stars slowly vanishing from a bleak eastern sky. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had great expectations about how my life would go and then . Nicholas Nickleby! — you fell on hard times and were living in a real bleak house.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Dome is sand and scorpions, and bleak red mountains baking in the sun.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sent one of them in her car to the bleak region where Famine dwells to order her to take possession of Erysichthon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s bleak. Nothing of interest, really. No, Doli, I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do for you. Except set you on your way as quickly as possible.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the color of bruised flesh and storm-dark seas, the bleak and hopeless blue of a dead girl’s eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, after fifteen minutes or so of motoring, I found myself out on a long road curving across bleak, open moorland. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had stood there, something bleak and mad in his gaze. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ll find that nothing in them demands that scythes shun the creature comforts that make life worth living. That bleak interpretation by old-guard scythes is a relic from another time.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The bleak walls have unsightly patches of blue-green mold. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its members most dreaded being assigned to an especially bleak sector at the extreme south end of the park below the Agriculture Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The man said nothing, but he looked at Johnny and the look of bleak hatred amazed the boy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least it shows they believed me about the leopard, thought Nhamo with a bleak smile. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal and Patrice helped me scratch up a little plot that eventually produced a few bleak, dusty bouquets of spinach and beans, which were gobbled up one night by our neighbor’s goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits stood now on the brink of a tall cliff, bare and bleak, its feet wrapped in mist; and behind them rose the broken highlands crowned with drifting cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Just as things were looking their bleakest for Venkatesh, another man appeared. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He shuts off the radio, drives in silence through the cold, bleak afternoon, through the flat, charmless town he will never visit again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fear, bleak and hard, was waiting to fill the empty space they left behind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The moment stretches out between us, bleak and level. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of it—the tinkle of joy in the midst of our bleak American winter—was startling. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We had turned towards home and, at the top of a rise, I saw the gables of Monmouth House, bleak in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My bleak vocabulary did not diminish my enthusiasm for reading. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was in the East and all the mists had rolled away; wide lands lay bleak about them in the bitter light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And then it was gone, flying back to Mordor with the speed of the wrath of Sauron; and behind it the wind roared away, leaving the Dead Marshes bare and bleak. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He saw one bleak hawkish grinning face; hurriedly he mentioned Longstreet’s name. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to now, my life had been bleak and limited, and it showed no sign of changing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It started out bleak—a gutted building along a gray road on a rainy day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His dates with Joyce devolved into bleak meetings in the cafeteria, where they mixed catsup with hot water and called it tomato soup and rounded out the meal with soda crackers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow the light goes bleak for me when I see them and remember burned men pulled from the oil-slicked sea. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, with the bleak light falling on her face, I could hardly help but notice the lines that had appeared here and there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a bare, bleak pool of black life and I hated it; the people were alike, their homes were alike, and their farms were alike. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buford’s pickets saw the dawn come high in the sky, a gray blush, a bleak rose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bleak even light from outside fell on his dark face. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My name is Reek, it rhymes with bleak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The stone buildings and the concrete pavements looked bleak and hostile to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks we need a miracle,” Sticky said in a bleak voice. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the moment, though, the chances of succeeding seemed bleak. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The night was bleak and rain streaked the windows of the train, distorting the lights beyond, until the lights were gone. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Latham’s background was at the opposite extreme, being every bit as bleak as Perry Smith’s. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak day, and no one, not even Mr. Curtain, was out to enjoy it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His voice had a bleak resolve to it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If I tell the bleak truth—then no. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Kepler, stubborn, intelligent and fiercely independent, suffered two friendless years in bleak Maulbronn, becoming isolated and withdrawn, his thoughts devoted to his imagined unworthiness in the eyes of God. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the dark, obstructive, enigmatic souls I had met in this bleak city, his was the darkest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In theory, scientists can get energy from the Casimir effect even at absolute zero in the bleakest part of the vacuum of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

All day they walked up and down this onesided avenue of aromatic leaning trees, blowing on stiff ungloved fingers and looking with bleak hope at those people who paused. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little laugh burst from her lips, bleak and bitter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost too much sympathy for Arm after the bleak malice of Dead Man’s Vlei, but it healed him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes trace a line towards the bleak sky. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their three faces all wore the same bleak look. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was unresponsive, in a coma, lying in a bleak hospital room that reeked of medicine. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They squatted in a bleak wood and drank ditchwater strained through a rag. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And down below, on the planet’s bleak gray surface, there were exactly 1,024 copies of Megadon, the domed city described in the liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That was certainly the truth, for all along the bleak shore and clustered on the rocks for as far as anyone could see were enormous crowds of people, all sadly looking out to sea. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those of you who are interested in the latest bleak frankfurter news will find none. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, he’d said, the Svalbard bears regarded Lord Asriel as being no different from any of the other politicians, kings, or troublemakers who had been exiled to their bleak island. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was the bleak face of middle age, waiting intent and stoical between the beefy faces of the soldiers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was just the dull, heavy skies and bleak light, which gave everything a flat, washed-out feel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes opened to gaze up at a flat dead sky, black and bleak and starless. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bleak faces of the soldiers watching them frightened her even more than being chased. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“For a guy like me, with no college, it’s become pretty bleak out there,” said Martinelli, who is fifty years old and deals with life’s curves with a resigned shrug. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only noise was the peculiarly bleak whistling of the wind through the upper branches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak, bad, dangerous day for the long ride north. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men with vacant eyes, bells on diner doors, motels so bleak and lonely they settle in your bones. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Though a number of Labadists still lived at La Providence, the plantation was eerily quiet, a bleak reminder of the dangers of colonial life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But in the middle of the Aurora, high above the bleak landscape, Lyra could see something solid. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The downpour pursued them to the coast, where they pitched the tent that night, and persisted through the whole week, through sodden landscapes that Harry found bleak and depressing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A hundred years ago there was a hotel on this bleak, forbidding spot, and its wind-worn foundations are still a landmark—I have seen it in photographs—but I have no recollection of it now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted found the English countryside charming, the weather bleak and morbid. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My father’s view of human nature has always been bleak, but scientists were excluded from it, and now they aren’t. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Early stood with his legs wide apart, his hands clasped behind his back, heavy in the jaw, his face bleak and grim, black beard dirty and untrimmed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak land, a bleak house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mood of the city was bleak, although business was good, prosperity general, and the weather fair. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the Stepstones they had taken on grain and game and fresh water, after the long voyage along the bleak and barren coast of Dome with its shoals and whirlpools. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The communities and schools from which they come fail to prepare them for the workforce, and once they have been labeled criminals, their job prospects are forever bleak. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a lot of deliberation, he decided to keep his mouth shut and went running with Minho for his second day of training, below a bleak and colorless sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s bleak, but don’t give up. We’ll find a way.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They sat with their heels dug into the sand and watched the bleak sea wash up at their feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My chance of survival was bleak, verging on nonexistent. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He writes to Theo only about art, about how he tries to see beauty in the bleak surroundings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He took his last shuddering breath in the bleak black dawn, as cold rain hissed from a dark sky to turn the brick streets of the old city into rivers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bleak line of shore surrounding the gray harbor was a disheartening contrast to the shimmering green and white that fringed the turquoise bay of Barbados which was her home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Cal picked up the telegram and read its bleak and dignified announcement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed blind to the bleak desert that surrounded them, now that they had gone outside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A creeping gloom unfurled in her chest, the same kind of bleak feeling she got when she’d broken a rule and knew her mama was fixing to be cross with her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His music was what had brightened the bleakest days of his boyhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When she looked up at him, the expression on her face was a bleak map of loathing and fatigue. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It confronted the bleak Plateau of Drume with angry brows and gnashing teeth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was also becoming apparent that the possibility of supplementing their food rations with game, such as the tapir, looked bleak. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And between, how many times, I thought, bleak of spirit, while her husband in his impotence and I in my innocence did nothing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Brown Lands rose into bleak wolds, over which flowed a chill air from the East. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was developing into a bright day after many bleak ones. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bleak, full of the sound of wind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I was definitely in a bit of a funk, a bit of a bleak period, when I did the next stupid thing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I spent nights there after particularly depressing fights with Lelia, which were really more nonfights, those bleak evenings in which we sat crossly at different ends of the loft, smoldering with voodoo. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

South of Rivendell they rose ever higher, and bent westwards; and about the feet of the main range there was tumbled an ever wider land of bleak hills, and deep valleys filled with turbulent waters. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak and awful-sounding word, yet I had no idea at all what shape it might take if ever I confronted it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how bleak things looked to me, I trusted God to work this out for the good of my community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The situation is undoubtedly bleaker now,” they wrote. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone—including Johnson—had assumed he would seek a second full term as president, but he knew now his chances of reelection were bleak. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Looming and bleak, folded in mist, guarded by a million screeching birds, it looked like some ancient fortress constructed by giants. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Only when Dessie went to her bed did her loss fall on her, bleak and unendurable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just . . . bleak? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I had been given to understand that those castles were ruins. Dismal places, bleak and cold, hardly more than heaps of rubble. At Eastwatch we heard talk of rats and spiders.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jews resisted the bleak surroundings by sharing their hopes and dreams and stories with one another, as Mr. Luftig did with me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All light went out of them, and they stared bleak and pale for a moment into the clear unwavering eyes of the man of Gondor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Good evening,” she said, following him inside the bleak stone-walled room, allowing him to make a little fuss and show her to a chair. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Against his bleak forecasting is set my mother’s cheerfulness, in retrospect profoundly willed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that Ged left off his bleak thoughts and his gazing ahead over the sea, and he saluted Yarrow more earnestly, perhaps, than Vetch. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cold and bleak and inhospitable, but beautiful in the moonlight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As old and bleak as its owner, that’s what Toby liked to say. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maddie could see that it was all set up as informally and cozily as it was possible to make this bleak little room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Scipio, however, just stared with a bleak expression at the foaming path left behind by the boat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fifteenth boy looks out across the dance hall as if staring into a bleak, cold sea, then climbs back down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The patched places showed up bleak against the wasted pink paint of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived on the grounds in bleak, single-sex barracks that contained hundreds of concrete bunks separated from each other by only a few inches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports issued early in the year 1949 declared that the arsenic-resistant ticks could be controlled readily with the new chemical; later in the same year, a bleak notice of developing resistance had to be published. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And when the bleak dawn broke over an empty horizon, Dany knew that he was truly lost to her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d developed an especially bleak outlook on life and was dragging her depression around the house like a dirty blanket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The hills stretched out into bleak rolling moorlands as far as the eye could see. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I started humming a fun, funky beat, but my mood remained bleak. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The bleak isolation awaiting her, the murderous loneliness, it didn’t have to be. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Castle Black seemed a bleak and forlorn place in the pale dawn light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Due south the red waste stretched on and on, he reported, until it ended an a bleak shore beside the poison water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He stood in the back door and looked out at the fields and the road beyond and the bleak country beyond the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It kept her from dwelling on her conversation with her mother the night before - that bleak glimpse of the future Aphrodite had made her promise not to share . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak, harsh view, the sea and the rock unrelieved by any tree or sweep of grass or sand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a place of gray-hued and bleak simplicity—a cramped gallery, a bench for the judge, a witness stand, a plywood platform for the jurors, and scuffed tables for the defendant and his prosecutor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even on that bleak day, it felt more like home than the dingy apartment where we’d stayed with our parents. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As a book it's utterly brill but a bit bleak. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was low and bleak, almost a mumble. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She got up and walked to the window, and stared over the wide bleak darkness with unseeing eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a bleak and uniform gray. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the bleak indie movies, they don’t get the happy ending; they get a tragedy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he touched seemed to glow with warmth, and cracks appeared in the bleak cold of her heart. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth’s bleak mood was interrupted by Franz’s happy yowl, followed by the sound of the mail slot opening and a stack of envelopes and magazines dropping onto the floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And yet even as he embraced that bleak understanding, on this, the worst day of the winter, he recalled something he’d seen on the worst day of the worst heat wave of the summer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archie could feel the coldness—more than cold, an icy hate coming across the desk like a deadly ray from some bleak and lethal planet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked again to the left, saw the bleak silence, felt a crawling uneasiness. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid to share my feelings with him—I didn’t really understand these bleak emotions myself. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing bleak truth in an unbreakable china cup? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twenty-one years old and had been locked up for a year already—the bleakest year of my life—and I had more time ahead of me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But the view was perpetually bleak, and each decaying, overcrowded city we rolled through looked just like the last. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For him, this was perhaps the highlight of an otherwise bleak existence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old people shook their heads, recalling blizzards of their childhood, but it was impossible for Kit to visualize anything more bleak than this first winter of her experience. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was bleak and grim; even the red of the palace walls were cold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, where is the innocence I must never lose, I cried into the bleak landscape in which I found myself. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room felt dim and bleak in her absence. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Cornfields bleak in all those gray, wide-open reaches. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They had lost a third of their number, and still the waste stretched before them, bleak and red and endless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Didn’t so much enjoy the bleak aftermath of my unsuccessful attempt to put them to use—very good at picking locks but not so good at getting out of the building. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The squirrels would be collecting them all very soon, Miss Honey said, and storing them away carefully for the bleak months ahead. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would feel good to sleep on a featherbed again, with a warm fire in the hearth; when she was rested the world would seem less bleak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The four Earth Men sat around a wooden table, their bleak heads bent over their whispers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So standing there in that bleak and empty garden listening to Ob make May alive again, that seemed to fix something in me that had needed fixing ever since the funeral. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither did I,” Dad says, which makes me feel bad, because Dad’s life has been pretty bleak, and through no fault of his own. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the precious final minutes he wrote out his address for her, a bleak sequence of acronyms and numbers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yet here, in this strange bleak wilderness of rock and ice, it was not hard to believe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We had to face the bleak situation that the world authority on the structural chemistry of ions was Linus Pauling himself. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The Apaches were at war but had no warriors, so perhaps she thought the ending too bleak to say aloud. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The 21-minute “NoNoseKnows” video includes views of the seemingly endless beige apartment towers and manufacturing buildings under construction around Zhuji, a bleak landscape that is repeated up and down China’s east coast. Venice Biennale Features Mika Rottenberg’s ‘NoNoseKnows’ 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Describing with blunt simplicity the intensity of the backbreaking toil and squalid existence of Andy and his ilk, McNeillie creates a bleak tableau of deprivation and depravity. Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life by John McNeillie - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z

In his portraits of Avril inside or outside this and other Montmartre haunts, her bleak beauty seems impossible for any actor to recreate. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z

Contrary to any surface bleak impressions it may register, the show actually is anchored in faith, trust and family. 'The Walking Dead' keeps hope alive, amid the zombie apocalypse 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

At one point a perfectly luminous chord, spread through the Houston Chamber Choir’s tenors and basses, was cut off by a bleak, sepulchral cluster in the piano and celesta. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Bursts of activity are followed by passages of bleak indecision. Music Review: Yesterday?s Shocks, Sounding Lyrical Today 2011-04-12T23:56:11Z

In the bleakest moments, requests such as to kiss each boy twice every night – one from Singe and one from Kate – gave him routine. Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

But it’s still quite bleak that the one person who represents a hope is a broken-down, polarized person, who represents a broken, polarized America. ‘Homeland’ Returns for Second Season on Showtime 2012-09-12T14:05:13Z

The facility was less a house of God than an underground parking lot “of a particularly sinister aspect,” with its low ceilings, foul odor and atmosphere of bleak desolation. Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The album’s themes of sexual deviance and spiritual exhaustion echo the Velvet Underground song “Venus in Furs,” as well as “Berlin,” Mr. Reed’s notoriously bleak 1973 album about a collapsed romance. Music: Lou Reed and Metallica Team Up on ?Lulu? 2011-10-27T12:00:00Z

A kind of arch and sometimes bleak humour runs through two further projects in the show. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z

In the bleak midwinter, the eerie light that fills this painting promises redemption. Snow and sunshine create a kind of winter art 2010-12-20T17:16:16Z

His response, “Kill Move Paradise,” premiered in June at Manhattan’s National Black Theatre and was greeted as a “bleak and beautiful new drama” by the New York Times. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that undun is overtly bleak in its outlook. The Roots Have Made A Concept Album. And It?s Good! 2011-12-06T11:58:41Z

He depicts a land of strange, often bleak physical extremes, from the ice-bound graves of ancient Scythians to the world’s deepest lake, Baikal, which reaches depths of a mile. Take the long view: Chile revisited 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

Instead of being explosively melodramatic, its acts of violence are incidental blips of rage against a bleak social environment. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z

As Lloyd puts it: "It's profoundly bleak on so many levels – the failure of idealism, the powerless of one's domestic world to impact on the public world." Can an all-women Julius Caesar work? 2012-11-19T19:18:27Z

Yet that song made clear that even the young Mr. Dylan had his eye on the bleakest possibilities. Music Review: Bob Dylan and Wilco Set the Warm and Familiar Askew 2013-07-28T05:36:13Z

The success of "Glengarry Glen Ross" is a bright spot in an otherwise bleak season that has seen "The Producers," "The Anarchist," and Kathie Lee Gifford's "Scandalous" all open and close quickly. Al Pacino wins as 'Glengarry Glen Ross' recoups 2012-12-19T18:31:05Z

In Ó Cadhain’s view, the threat to the language from government neglect and emigration was existential, and the outlook bleak. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

It's a journey that is at times dreadfully eerie and unremittingly bleak. Hidden treasures: The Microphones – The Glow Pt 2 2013-03-12T15:45:19Z

Then, after the bleak new year, the wash of colours of Holi, the festival of spring. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

In 1979, he opened Zuni on a bleak downtown San Francisco corner. A carbonara with its roots in queer history 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Watt’s literary science fiction is engaging and stunningly bleak, but he asks all the right questions about our evolution. Best new science fiction and steampunk

I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, guys. Listen, this is bleak. This is really bleak.’ Andy Cohen Had a Year 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

From movies to literature to video games, the bleak aftermath of either a natural or man-made global holocaust easily plays into both our worst fears and inner longing for adventure. Review: 'Metro: Last Light' a can't-miss shooter 2013-05-16T14:41:10Z

At 61 Mr. Waits is acclaimed as an American marvel: a songwriter who can be smart and primal, raucous and meticulous, ethereal and earthy, bleak and comical. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z

In other words, without that “like,” an affinity becomes an identity, and a bleak one at that: Life really is a tale told by an idiot. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

An advanced degree in sociology is not mandatory for finding evidence confirming Rice’s bleak forecast of America’s ignorant future. We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

There are laughs to be had in Kidding, but those expecting classic Carrey japery will have the grins wiped from their faces, as it deals in the bleakest humour. The true man show? Why Jim Carrey’s new show Kidding is too close to the bone 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

Featuring images from portraits to bleak landscapes, they're in the grand tradition of road photography established by the likes of Walker Evans and Stephen Shore. The genius behind Alec Soth's Brighton biennial success 2010-09-19T21:00:00Z

He's heard that Molly is making her exodus and is keeping his head down, hoping this might be the end to this bleak little chapter. TV review: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T21:01:00Z

With that in mind, we took to Twitter to gather suggestions for other films that could be improved with a bleaker ending. Does your favourite film need a bleaker ending? 2013-07-08T16:50:36Z

I do remember some bleak notes mixed in there. Theatre by the Lake: you wait ages for one Bus Stop ? 2010-06-30T15:55:00Z

This material is so bleak, and so miserably entrancing, that all Mr. Parry really needs to do is set out the facts and, essentially, stay out of the way. Books of The Times: ‘People Who Eat Darkness,’ by Richard Lloyd Parry 2012-06-06T20:39:37Z

Walking up Vine, one block would have upscale shops and bougie brew pubs and on the next, nothing but bleak, abandoned buildings. From Chili to the Underground Railroad, Cincinnati on a Budget 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The work’s debt to Beckett is forthright, but it translates the bleak comedy of that Irish master into an exuberant American vernacular that even has room for optimism. Review: Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

There are others, conflicting and combining: stomping rock, meticulous chamber music, Celtic modes, improvisational noise, bleak cynicism, pervasive paranoia and glimpses of kindliness. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z

And let’s face it, her secretive behavior now offers a bleak look at what media access will be like if she’s elected. It’s time for Hillary Clinton to face the music — and the media 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The image of a single bright flower in a bleak landscape comes to mind not just because Mr. Irwin is wearing a blazing yellow Pierrot outfit. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z

But Unorthodox Jukebox offers a bit more than clinically perfect songcraft – it also reveals Mars's bleak view of the women in his life. Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox – review 2013-01-03T21:15:01Z

But where one book is warm and generous, the other is cold and bleak. Life Onstage With John Lithgow and Hal Holbrook 2011-10-02T16:04:46Z

A cheery, can-do sort would say that life is not always so bleak. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The exhibition curators frequently underscore connections between Kuniyoshi’s often bleak emotional life, full of anxiety and uncertainty, especially during the war years, with the content of his images. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The fractured narrative leaves us to connect the dots between these disparate characters, all of whom make bleak compromises because they — like so many women throughout history — have so few options available to them. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

That is a bleak conclusion, and it’s one that this meticulous and messy movie both acknowledges and resists. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

But when it was interrupted by a call from a friend to Mr. Reese, who is 45 and known as Corey, and he abruptly announced that he had to go, their future suddenly looked bleak. Their Second Date Could’ve Been Their Last 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The anecdotes, some of which are funny, some horrifying, are edged with a bleak sense of absurdity and shadowed by the rapid onset of oblivion. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

"The alternative is just too bleak to consider," he said. New Zealand's Hobbit crisis spurs national rallies 2010-10-25T09:08:00Z

But just when things were looking bleakest - Bam! With Martha's help Emeril going strong 20 years on 2010-04-19T16:38:00Z

Told as realism, without the element of romantic fantasy, the story of a woman driven insane by her brother’s ham-handed treatment becomes almost unbearably bleak. Review | ‘Lucia’ unvarnished, Handel unbound: Opera Philadelphia festival strikes again 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Hochschild subscribes to the earlier, bleaker view of the war as one of utter folly. Narrative history of WWI focuses on war resisters 2011-05-02T11:11:09Z

It’s very funny, very dark, very bitter and bleak. David Tennant Craves Old English Dinners and Cigarettes After Sex 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Desperately, unremittingly bleak, but all the more hilarious for that. TV highlights 20/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:01:02Z

Since the economic collapse, these last two winters in New York have felt particularly bleak to me. Generation B: It?s All Downhill From Here 2010-03-25T23:02:00Z

The tax return reflects the bleak economic times. Philharmonic Paid Maazel $3.3 Million in Last Season 2010-07-16T23:30:00Z

It’s a perfect gift for anyone out there in the bleak, pandemic dating world. Review | The best books to beat this year’s special brand of Valentine’s Day blues 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The movie’s view of human society is bleak, but its ending strikes a chord of melancholy hope. 6 Best Summer Blockbusters You Have to See 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

There are moments, too, of utterly bleak comedy, such as when Terri, Krystal's mother, whose council house is a rubbish dump, attempts to defend her patch against the predators from the social services. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – review 2012-09-29T23:05:13Z

While it lacks novelty, it doubles down on absurd inconvenience: guests must navigate a velvet rope shared with a nightclub, a dark hallway, an elevator, another corridor and a bleak staircase humming with ice machines. Bo?te: JBird, a New Speakeasy in Midtown: Review 2011-09-21T21:44:49Z

Despite the bleak situation, there may be reasons to be optimistic about the country’s longer-term prospects as a vacation destination. Tourism to Turkey: Challenges and Hope 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s a really wonderful picture and somehow as bleak as it is, it also shows the resilience of children,” he said. How Real-Life and Fictional Horror Seeped Into ‘The Black Phone’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

When things seem bleakest for the Titan, Jack has a deus ex machina at the ready: He is a living Professor X with Cerebro capabilities. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Consequences Abound 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Without disclosing the crucial plot-twist, the play even offers the bleak conclusion that dealing with bipolar disorder drives the attendant helpers towards madness. Polar Bears 2010-04-06T23:48:00Z

That part of the world seems to be this bottomless treasure chest of bleak, wonderful character-led thrilling drama. TV review: Kingdom of Plants 2012-05-26T18:00:01Z

A bleak, violent end — and the intimation of a worldwide cataclysm — looms from the very first scene of “The Crimes of Grindelwald.” ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: Apocalypse Too Soon 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The aerial views of a pre-Ikea Red Hook are relentlessly bleak. From ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ to ‘Little Men’: A Borough’s Real Estate Crises, Onscreen 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

He's at his best on the traditional Black Is the Colour and a bleak, previously unrecorded Richard Thompson song, Seven Brothers. Blair Dunlop: Blight & Blossom – review 2012-10-04T21:07:00Z

From its bleak tone to its theme of planetary apocalypse — which is never specified — “The Midnight Sky” feels like 2020 in movie form. It’s been a bleak year, so our gift to you is George Clooney’s thoughts on movies, murder hornets and mince pie 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

It's a world of limited choices and bleak prospects – a furious EastEnders with a genuinely hard edge. Three in a Bed and The Runaway 2011-04-01T07:00:01Z

The images, elegant, bleak and harrowing, place her in a desolate landscape devastated by the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Eiko, Without Koma, Creates in Philadelphia and Fukushima 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

In his bleakest hours, he attempted suicide four times. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

And Onion, raised in bleak circumstances and taught that it's better to be protected by a disguise than die as boy who gets shot to death. "The Good Lord Bird" is a zany, rollicking ride through the mania of abolitionist rebellion 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

I love a bleak foreign detective thriller, me. Haven't we had enough of murder on the telly? 2012-06-03T19:00:06Z

This account of the novel's genesis helps to explain why, in spite of its bleak subject, it is such an exhilarating and life-enhancing read. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

This is possibly the bleakest thing I've ever read in my life. Reading group: strange bodies in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood 2012-12-19T11:36:00Z

He also called himself “a bleak sort of person,” “jittery” and “anxiety-ridden,” and once defined writing as “delving into a corner of yourself that’s dark and uneasy and articulating the confusions.” Brian Friel, Playwright Called the Irish Chekhov, Dies at 86 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The mountains are bleak, the sky black, the runway is awash with water. A masterclass in Mexican food culture from the country's leading chef 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

“It just seemed too bleak,” he told me. Walking the Heights 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

And the Broadway-style uplift at the end, understandable when the play convened anxious theatergoers during the bleakest days of the epidemic, seems more problematic today. London calling: 'Angels in America' as fresh as ever at the National Theatre 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

However, most of the novel proffers a bleak vision of total war, as fleets of airships rain down destruction on the world’s cities. Even in the 21st century, H.G. Wells still speaks to our fears and dreams 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Writer Robert Kirkman has a reputation for being a bit self-serious: “The Walking Dead” is bleak as hell, and his superhero series “Invincible” sometimes falls into the “dark for dark’s sake” trap. “Preacher” fans, your prayers are answered: Here are 10 comics with outrageous portrayals of God 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Pappano and the LSO certainly played their part in the unremitting focus of the Shostakovich, the winds interweaving eloquently with the solo violin in its bleak reflections. LSO/Pappano – review 2013-05-19T16:30:01Z

The repercussions for a society that so abandons its most marginalised is one of the strongest undercurrents of his film, his bleakest prophesy. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z

It's a bleak story that reflects the currently bleak prospects for a resolution of the conflict. The Promise delivers but still divides 2011-02-14T11:27:00Z

These two, stars in their own right, have all the makings of a great rap duo — EST Gee, from Louisville, Ky., is steely and narratively vivid, his verses square-cornered and bleak. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

It’s an amazingly bleak way of elongating a franchise, and it’s happening everywhere. Rise of the 'bleakquel': your favourite heroes are back – and more miserable than ever 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Preljocaj also takes direction from the Brothers Grimm, including a bleak twist at the end. Dance Review: Ballet Preljocaj’s ‘Snow White’ at the Joyce Theater 2014-04-24T21:55:25Z

The music is exhilarating; the aftertaste is bleak. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

But I don't like girls in bikinis or surfing or boys in big shorts or inspirational true stories or arm amputations or bleak post-traumatic despair or Dennis Quaid whooping with his top off. Soul Surfer: something for everyone 2011-02-02T09:38:00Z

Watching Jack Nicholson’s bandaged gumshoe roam through Roman Polanski’s bleak depiction of postwar Los Angeles is just as depressing as it sounds. The Best Movies For Getting Over Your Ex 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

“The Handmaid’s Tale” returns to a bleak future. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Archer’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Indian interlocutors presented a bleak assessment of the current situation in Afghanistan. US embassy cables: India accuses Pakistan of supporting Taliban 2010-12-16T21:30:37Z

Dealing with the same subject, “Boy” is so determined not to be sensational or bleak that it bleaches itself of troubling complexity. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Composite: Michael Whitaker This is meant to be a bleak time for young people and words, as an entire generation is assailed by "death of journalism" notices and financial catastrophe. New York magazines – start spreading the news 2013-01-06T00:07:33Z

It’s been filled with gloom and doom, but some celebrities and those inspired by them have tried to brighten a bleak year. Despite bleak 2020, celebrities make effort to brighten year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Her world was forever rearranged by his cheery, but to her, bleak response: "Nothing!" "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

It’s remarkable how bleak and yet so spirit-lifting “Cabaret” can be, all at once. Willkommen once again to ‘Cabaret’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

But don’t turn up your nose at the thought of a “depression cake,” because it's not quite as bleak as it sounds. What is a 'depression cake,' or a 'war cake'? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

Essentially, we’re watching dead people refuse to lie down, yet the acting isn’t terrible, and Scott Winig’s photography is satisfyingly bleak and grimy. ‘Aftermath,’ a Postapocalyptic Tale by Peter Engert 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Alfred Whitehead came from the bleakest rural poverty in Tennessee. Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z

No matter how bleak the subject matter of the nominated films, no matter how intense the performances of the nominated actors, Oscar night is generally presumed to be a night for merriment. Time for a red carpet revolution: Stars have a huge platform to use — if they dare 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Kellow’s A Life in the Dark includes enough other bleak tales of Kael mentoring gone wrong to make it seem that this too was a habit. The Perils of Reading About Pauline Kael 2011-11-02T09:00:57Z

It's witty and bleak, infused with a kind of playful misery that recalls the surrealism of Luis Buñuel and Terry Gilliam. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-19T00:06:06Z

Brightness flickers fitfully in the bleak, beautiful landscape of “Girl From the North Country,” a rich and strange marriage of the talents of the Irish playwright Conor McPherson and the American songwriter Bob Dylan. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

And “Baskets” may be the bleakest of the bunch. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s hard not to take this history into account while watching “Petrov’s Flu,” which paints a bleak, wistful, tragically funny portrait of a man, a people, a world. ‘Petrov’s Flu’ Review: Roaming a Grim, Rowdy Underworld 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of massive, often violent, state power being wielded against the arts is a bleak one. Subversion on stage: can theatre change the world? 2011-01-06T12:13:12Z

Tamura provides many glimpses of the wartime trauma with archival photos of the barracks, guard towers and the bleak Idaho landscape. ‘Minidoka’: remembering the Japanese-American internment 2014-01-15T22:19:58Z

But with NIN comes a certain mind set, one that addresses a particularly bleak world view with a mixture of aggression, anger and drama. Nine Inch Nails, 'Hesitation Marks' review 2013-09-03T16:31:00Z

I took a bleak sort of pride in making the house’s worst hazer laugh so hard he had to leave the room, but I couldn’t see my shucking and jiving for what it was. I was the black guy in a white frat 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

“I draw the line,” he specified, “at something I might listen to at home, which might be bleak and dystopic.” Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Think of Wu-Tang’s “C.R.E.A.M.,” or “Cash Rules Everything Around Me,” ostensibly a love letter to hustling that really turns on bleak experiences of youth and adolescence. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The authors of ACT's "Double Indemnity" want that humanity to glimmer through — along with Cain's philosophical overview, shaped by a post-World War I, Great Depression America of bleak streets, grinding desperation and shattered collective dreams. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

Outside, the weather has grown bleak and wintry, and north of Washington the world is digging out after a major snowstorm. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The largest is his assertion that Eilert’s manuscript describes a bleak future. Theater Review | 'Brack?s Last Bachelor Party': Drunken Rages, Bad Deeds: Hedda Won?t Be Happy 2010-03-04T23:02:00Z

My most recent obsession was Sky Atlantic's Hunderby, a darkly deadpan, strangely filthy sitcom from Julia Davis set in bleak 1830s Cornwall that finished earlier this week. Top TV spoofs: 'Don't I know you from Lark Pies To Cranchesterford?' 2012-10-11T14:27:05Z

The other two — an escape or a narrative pivot — can be seen as ways for the work to circumnavigate the bleak realities of how Black people are treated in our society. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

This bleak and unforgiving definition of manhood lies at the heart of “Kicks,” Justin Tipping’s début feature, which opens this weekend. The Dark Manhood of “Kicks,” an Anti-Coming-of-Age Story 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Dog Eat Dog” shows three criminal pals careening through a garishly bleak Cleveland, filmed by the exceptionally sure-footed Alexander Dynan, here shooting his first feature. Review: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ Is a Pulpy Tale With Nasty, Bumbling Crooks 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Nor, if the season opener is anything to go by, are the team afraid of pushing the boundaries of bleak, brutal barbarism even further than in the first series. Elisabeth Moss on the Handmaid’s Tale: ‘This is happening in real life. Wake up people’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, he cheerfully matches bleak lyrics against upbeat melodies, as on the opening Times Is Hard, where the man once compared to Dylan announces "you folks need some cheering up ... it ain't me, babe". Loudon Wainwright III: 10 Songs for the New Depression 2010-07-15T22:16:00Z

In “Dollar Days,” it gets bleaker: “If I never see the English evergreens I’m running to/It’s nothing to me, it’s nothing to see,” he insists. “Look up, I’m in heaven”: Bowie’s haunting farewell “Blackstar” is a triumph 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Though things are bleak all over, and certainly for the Met, it was inspiring — and fun — to see beloved artists relaxed, smiling and sounding splendid, some in gala attire and some, well, not. The Met Opera’s At-Home Gala: Informal Yet Profoundly Moving 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

It wasn't the quality of the illustrations which drew Lakis's attention, but rather the "bleak" issue of child soldiers. Reader reviews roundup 2013-02-15T17:00:30Z

IT was a bleak afternoon on the outskirts of Manhattan’s garment district. Up Close: The Return of Tinsley Mortimer, Branding Irons in Hand 2012-03-13T18:22:52Z

There’s always been a bleak, nihilistic thread running through Top Boy, as young people without much hope struggle to simply get by. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Fleischmann's situation was probably as bleak as any that I can imagine. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z

I enjoyed the subtle humour and vividly bleak scenes it painted for me. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and the books you are reading 2012-08-02T08:58:37Z

Now Ms. Molloy enters the ring, exploring rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating acuity. Review: ‘Crackskull Row,’ an Irish Gothic With Masher, Basher and Rasher 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Stones stopped touring after the bleak 1969 Altamont concert in California, where four people died, withdrawing to studios to complete three of their masterpieces: “Let It Bleed,” “Sticky Fingers” and “Exile on Main Street.” Pop: The Rolling Stones at 50 Prepare to Tour 2012-11-08T16:00:00Z

Judging by the early reviews, people are shocked that the author of Harry Potter could have written something as bleak as the Weedon family. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

On one screen we see Ms. Steyerl visiting the bleak site where her friend died. Art Review: Hito Steyerl Has New York Solo Debut at e-flux 2012-12-20T22:07:09Z

We meet one of those survivors in Dylan Mohan Gray’s shattering documentary “Fire in the Blood” – which is something like a bleak but necessary second act to France’s film — with one key difference. Pick of the week: Big Pharma’s African genocide 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z

He seems so happy even though it looks bleak. Alan Partridge's top 10 hits - in video 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

An exultant sensuous verve jumps from the pages of this sometimes bleak, never deceived and yet always life-affirming book. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

He is further isolated when he is passed on to provide care for an epileptic nobleman in a bleak outpost of Cumberland. A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

But the audience at Klein's BBC2 session was left with a picture of a bleak and austere future for the channel. BBC4's £5m budget cut 'will not break the channel' 2012-08-25T10:42:53Z

These interruptions may pull readers out of the story, though perhaps that distance is necessary for adolescents trying to process something as bleak and overwhelming as the Syrian refugee crisis. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

But the palate of District 12 is much bleaker than the palette of the Capitol. ArtsBeat: Gary Ross Answers Reader Questions About 'The Hunger Games' 2012-03-30T18:55:38Z

Cave's adopted home of Brighton may or may not inform Wide Lovely Eyes's bleak narrative of closed-down funfairs and mermaids hung by their hair. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away – review 2013-02-14T22:05:01Z

It’s going to get really bleak, but we’re still alive, which means hope is not lost. How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

This all sounds a bit bleak, doesn’t it? Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z

Despite the bleak name of his new project, Black Cards, their music is apparently inspired by Jamaican dancehall. Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz unveils new reggae direction 2010-07-12T14:56:00Z

"Some of them are pretty bleak," Allyson admits, but fudges about whether the album is autobiographical. Karrin Allyson brings heartbreak to Jazz Alley 2011-08-03T01:39:31Z

“The best — and also the most troubling — thing about ‘The Favourite’ is its rigorously bleak assessment of human motivations and behavior,” Scott rules. What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

But anyway, he liked the movie — he calls it a “bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking”– so what’s there to complain about? The Carpetbagger: The Film With the Broken Embargo 2011-12-05T16:13:08Z

News & World Report a male writer accused the film of having “an explicit fascist theme, wedded to the bleakest form of feminism.” Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right 2010-03-10T19:14:00Z

"They're all, for the most part, incredibly bleak, incredibly dark," Murphy observed. Ryan Murphy on "Hollywood": "I wanted to give a happy ending to so many people who didn't have it" 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

In fact, Mr. Lane ended his sold-out run in the fluffy backstage romp “It’s Only a Play” just days before beginning rehearsals on “Iceman,” one of the bleakest dramas in the canon. Review: ‘The Iceman Cometh’ Revived, With Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As an artist born in the shadow of Hitler's death camps, the product of a love that survived the Holocaust, Reitman might have been forgiven for making bleak art. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The comic starred Binky, a crudely drawn, anthropomorphic rabbit whose hopes collide with a bleak, sardonic vision of modern urban life. 'Simpsons' celebrates its 26th season with — what else? — a death 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

He's a classic Pinter interloper, whose mere presence disrupts his host's bleak household and pathetic decline. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z

She found herself, one particularly bleak day, in Los Angeles, crying on Sunset Boulevard. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji: 'I’m 33 years old and I’m a virgin' 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

This monotonously bleak outlook made the real-human characters of “Westworld” its most dull, from the boorish park visitors to the corporate villains. Review: ‘Westworld’ Gets a Partial Upgrade for Season 2 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s bleak at the outset, but by the end of the track a sense of hope and vision has prevailed, thanks to the wry realness of Perkins’s rapping and the sun-sprinkled buoyancy of Muldrow’s voice. The Playlist: Unreleased John Coltrane, and 9 More New Songs 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Only in the bleak final moments is it revealed that this Morty is actually an authoritarian we have previously met in the first season. A "Rick and Morty" guide to 9 essential episodes to get schwifty for Season 4 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

It is the bleakest, most mournful book by an author celebrated for his barbed tongue and high silliness. A New Novel Stars the Dupes, Villains and Victims of America’s Forever War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

On my bleakest days, I found myself thinking: at least I'll make the right choice on my next go around. How I came out to my three kids 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Someone told me they thought the show was very bleak,” Parr said, sounding not at all displeased with the idea. Great Britain, Strange and Familiar 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The Handmaid’s Tale is now so relentlessly grim, so spectacularly, queasily bleak, that it overwhelms any point it might be trying to make. Westworld annoys the hell out of me – but is it OK to give up on it? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

"It's a bleak collection, very bleak, but he has such attention to detail and is a real storyteller, a real craftsman." Frank O'Connor award goes to Ron Rash 2010-09-20T11:37:00Z

In joint productions Mr. Gelb placed some bets on relative newcomers with excellent results, especially in Shostakovich’s bleak comedy “The Nose.” Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

The collaboration by Vladislav Delay and Lillevan, a shared improvisation, was simultaneously lush and bleak, enveloping the room with ominous implications. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z

Most of the stories don’t contain such bleak moments, but the initially bouncy tone grows significantly darker and more melancholy. Review: ‘Now en Español’ Uncovers a Slice of Latino Life in Hollywood 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Nordstrand’s bleak, quicksilver beauty mirrors the mercurial fortunes of its inhabitants. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z

And during the bleakest chapters of the pandemic they found solace by watching the river. Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

“All the King’s Men” is a powerfully bleak novel; many lives are ruined over the course of it. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The front-runner for Best Play is probably Stephen Karam’s bleak and revelatory drama “The Humans,” which has much to say, albeit indirectly, about the disquietude driving this election season. The 2016 Tony Nominations: Not All About the Hamiltons 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

UHF isn't, as you may have gathered by this point, the easiest of listens, although it's worth noting that as bleak and eerie and difficult as their sound is, it's also weirdly enveloping and captivating. Hacker Farm: UHF – review 2012-12-20T15:29:01Z

To say it's pitched as a comedy, this second series of Girls has been spectacularly bleak. TV highlights 18/03/2013 2013-03-18T07:00:09Z

So bleak that it might seem fair to ask why the author chooses to live there when not teaching at Trinity College in Hartford. ‘The Interior Circuit,’ by Francisco Goldman 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water writer Taylor Sheridan writes and directs this bleak but powerful thriller about a murder on a Native American reservation in Wyoming. The 11 Best Indie Movies You Might Have Missed This Summer 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

It was a bleak era for Davis and Joan Crawford, both of them rattling around in an abyss of free time. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Our guide Elena is solemn when she points out the tombs – covered daily in fresh flowers – and describes their final bleak days in Ekaterinburg, where the family were killed by a Bolshevik firing squad. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1980s, the story charts the family’s bleak disintegration through a series of precisely framed and staged chronological scenes in which nothing much seems to happen or everything does. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

One piece is about seeing the funny side, and using humour as a kind of survival mechanism that Bobby Baker excels in even in the bleakest of moments. Jocelyn Pook: inspired by mental illness 2012-11-23T22:55:11Z

Britain's Telegraph, however, welcomed the bleak undercurrent, saying the film's vision of Depression-era America "caught in the jaws of fear and paranoia has the stony-grim ring of the here and now." Mostly magical reviews for 'Fantastic Beasts' but is it too dark? 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The global growth helped to counter an otherwise bleak year in the domestic market. China growth drives record year at box office for Hollywood 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Glenn Cowan’s story is ultimately a bleak one, and Mr. Griffin finds a through line connecting those consequences to Ivor Montagu’s original ambitions. Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin 2014-01-02T22:23:15Z

At the time of the interview, things looked bleak. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland on the catharsis of 'Still Alice' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Or is Nocturnal Animals, by its bleak, isolating finale, a misogynistic cautionary tale complicit in punishing its heroine? Nocturnal Animals caps off Hollywood's year of toxic masculinity 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

For one thing, Mr. Wilson’s script is at once talky and terrifyingly bleak: how else to characterize a landscape where love is dismissed as “a neurosis everyone should have together?” Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z

Razor clams are served raw, twirled in their long shells and topped with curling pea tendrils, and there’s caviar, of a sort — North Atlantic bleak roe — served in a jelly jar. The Cruise Issue: Beyond the Buffet: 10 Restaurants Worth Leaving the Ship For 2011-02-11T19:55:00Z

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin, in which an adventurous girl and a dragon trace the clues in ancient Chinese stories to break the curse on her bleak village. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘What We Found in the Corn Maze’ 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The bleak indictment of “The Staircase” on North Carolina’s legal system is more than offset by the sisters’ unrelenting devotion to their family — and to each other. ‘The Staircase’ on Netflix Revisits a Genre-Defining Trial 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

His description of the cold Darwinian order of things and the bleak immorality of it all - brilliant. ArtsBeat: Times Staffers Recommend 'School Books' 2012-08-24T16:53:00Z

This Copenhagen looks like Birmingham, Manchester or Newcastle at their bleakest. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z

The collection contained the short poem In the Suburbs, in which he offered the bleaker suggestion that there was "no way out" for those "born to this middleclass life". US poet Louis Simpson dies at 89 2012-09-18T14:52:54Z

"Well, a lot of it's very bleak", he says. Two Gates of Sleep: hitting the snooze button with Brady Corbet 2010-05-25T14:48:00Z

But as the book progresses, the metaphors calm down and Subramanian finds her footing, the language taking on a musicality that is in sharp contrast to the bleak setting. In This Novel, the Fate of an Indian Slum Is in the Hands of Its Women 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

When the storm finally breaks, an enervated calm falls over the stage, slowing down the dance to a bleak stillness. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z

So yeah, you could probably forgive her if her opinion of the world is as bleak as the new True Detective teaser at the moment. Game of Thrones Watch: Dead Lords and Monsters 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

That's one of the bleakest reports from the front lines of juggling parenting and work on the upper-middle-class side that I've seen in a long time. Motherlode Blog: An Overwhelmed Mother's Departure Memo 2012-11-09T20:50:35Z

Either setting would suit their bleak purgatory until they serve out their parole and can remove their GPS anklets. 'Lost Memory of Skin': a pariah in purgatory 2011-09-28T23:50:05Z

So it’s going to be a bleak summer for us! James Corden Wants to Make the World of Late-Night TV More Diverse 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Following two of the band’s best and most inventive albums — 2009’s rambunctious “Embryonic” and 2013’s gorgeously bleak “The Terror” — the Flaming Lips’ latest might be the most cryptic and challenging. Wayne Coyne, mad scientist: “If the Flaming Lips make a wrong move, so what?” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

But this production still takes place in that bleak, arid prison that is the usual milieu of Chekhov’s discontented souls. The Anger on London’s Stages Is Palpable, and Thrilling 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

As he discussed the war and its aftermath, his composure gave way to something bleaker. At 77, He Gets to Woo Mary-Louise Parker 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

These landscapes look quite bleak because of the time of year, but if you follow the dales, there are some really pretty rivers. Take a Tour of ‘All Creatures’ Country 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Another is a bleak nocturnal landscape, its safety-first pedestrian crossing sign marred by adjacent graffiti of a swastika. With pointed, political new work, Llyn Foulkes, 82, shows he's far from finished 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

There's explosive action – a scene where the humans are escaping by train had me point blank refusing to talk to anyone until it was done - and I lapped up Cronin's bleak vision of the future. The Passage: a post-apocalyptic vampire tale you can get your teeth into 2010-06-11T08:46:00Z

None more noir but containing flashes of unexpected humour, this was one of the more impressive of the bleak dramas that flooded out of Scandinavia. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

At her bleakest, her mother suggested it was “logical”. My granddaughter, the girl who refused to let joy into her life 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Yet as bleak as things get, she refuses to retreat. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In his latest collection, the ever inventive Marcus delivers taut, bleak, dystopian stories that are disturbing and outlandish yet somehow eminently plausible. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

And yet, I played through this bleak, very long game twice. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

As powerful as it is bleak, it cannot leave audiences cold: You may hate it, or you may love it, but you will definitely have some reaction. Review | The American Dream as American nightmare: An opera for our time 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

For Sally, 40 is a bleak deadline, the end of all promise. Hollywood's latest craze: the over-40 female actor 2013-06-11T16:39:45Z

So it's no surprise that it comes to us clothed in the bleak garments of death. 'If I Stay' asks life-and-death questions, with love as a referee 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

He keeps you watching, as do the images of reverberant, often haunting power and beauty, including a fecund garden in which kale, berries and gourds grow in bleak contrast to the ship’s laboratory fetuses. ‘High Life’ Review: Robert Pattinson Is Lost in Space 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

From this bleak premise, a mesmerizing tale unfolds. William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Yes, that's bleak but so are the times we live in. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z

"Idol" had been a bright respite in an unbearably bleak period of illness and loss. The night my family won "American Idol" 2011-08-15T16:30:00Z

This year's bleak summer is making winter an even doomier prospect. Live music booking now 2012-07-13T23:11:17Z

The effect is at once dazzling and bleak. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Even at this bleak moment, in which America’s most ill-equipped president is about to take office, “South Park” epitomizes George Carlin’s view of politicians. So much for hope: “South Park” abandons serialization, apparently all really is lost 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

If you like your techno-futurism bleak, cynical and beautiful, try this textured animated drama. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Both the Walking Dead universe and works like Stephen King's "The Stand" tend to portray a bleaker and more sinister bungling government than anything we have had the bad luck to experience. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

The sunshine, when it comes, brings a welcome ray of hope to May's often bleak exploration of what motivates people to commit atrocities, and illuminates this graphic picture of contemporary family life. Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:02Z

Brutal and bleak and tender, full of dark moments and astounding images and basically just as good as everyone says. Jon McGregor's top 10 dead bodies in literature 2011-01-19T09:17:13Z

Just because something’s bleak, he added, it doesn’t have to be depressing. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

A de-cozied departure from the books and the original series, this bleak and occasionally comic version, set in Depression-era Los Angeles, follows a lurid single case — the murder and mutilation of a baby. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Young’s earlier book, “The Grey Album,” looked at the generative power of storytelling, but “Bunk” takes a bleaker view. In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

And this second season admirably plumbs the bitter, bleak crises burbling beneath the facade of wealth these families have constructed, ostensibly for the sake of their children but demonstrably to impress and one-up each other. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

BBC3 Much of Britain's best comedy has come from the bleakest of domestic conditions, from Steptoe to The Young Ones to Ideal. Spooks 2010-10-04T05:45:00Z

Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits a former classmate, Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

It might be the first line of a riddle or a bad, bleak joke without a punchline: a reflex gag. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z

It’s a bleak temple to materialism, a sort of modernist version of the death-denying pyramids of Egypt. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

"Terms of Service" is a bleak, unsparing and discomfiting critique of a modern life built around Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. 'Terms of Service' a critique of modern life built on social media 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

At times in past work, Mung’ora has gone for maximal urban scenes that are chaotic and sometimes bleak. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

But in the absence of clues about what the hell is going on and where the hell this is all going, Roach gives a bleak but nevertheless enticing prognosis. Utopia: inside Channel 4's new unsettling thriller 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z

His last article was a rather bleak assessment of President Obama for The Nation. 2010-01-29T05:49:00Z

The conversation has grown intense among arts organizations, especially smaller ones that are staring at particularly bleak futures. The Sacrosanct Endowment? Not Anymore for Some Arts Groups 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

She didn’t necessarily mine the score for color or character — Gilda’s apotheosis was stubbornly earthbound — but Scappucci surfaced bleak hollowness in the woodwinds and strings that touched on the futility of Rigoletto’s struggles. Review: At the Met Opera, a Tenor Arrives in ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

But when the mood was sober, he sang with exciting confidence and detail, delivering Poulenc’s elegantly bleak “Sanglots” with subtlety and concentration. Music Review: Elliot Madore and Megan Hart in Song Continues Recital - Review 2012-01-17T23:32:45Z

But their bleak financial circumstances lead many to reconsider and return, deciding that risk of a bloody, swift death is preferable to a hellish lifetime of digging out of an inescapable financial hole. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

The judges said: "A bleak inner landscape, written with a temperature control set very low and an acute sense of smell." Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z

Ian Thomson’s book “The Dead Yard,” a bleak and prickly survey of Jamaica’s past and present, takes its title from one of that country’s funeral practices. Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z

The novel opens in March 2020 with the precipitous arrival in the bucolic Hudson Valley of a group of middle-aged friends who have fled Manhattan to escape covid’s bleak, menacing hold on the city. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

America is glorious and bleak, lonely and kind, a million things at once—to suggest otherwise might be to misunderstand the place and its potential entirely. Wanting to See Like Robert Frank 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The first portion of 21 Savage’s set found the rapper mostly tearing through many of his collaborations — some bleak, some spirited. Six months after ICE arrest, 21 Savage raps his redemption 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

What it shows in a bleak and desolate-seeming Tehran, the lives of people with barely enough money to survive being made more miserable by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, unemployment, drug addiction and wife abuse. Indonesia massacre, Iran sanctions impact infuse Venice film offerings 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

While homeowners are settling in for the long haul, the outlook for guesthouses relying on short stays is bleak, in part because meals from restaurants are hard to come by. Is the Party Over on Fire Island? 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

Hanks talks about his early years with a kind of bleak whimsy, the constant moving around from town to town in California, the disruption of his parents’ new partners. Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Brilliantly designed and meticulously detailed by Ridley Scott — then coming off the bleak, brutal triumph of “Alien” and considered Kubrick’s heir ahead of the more optimistic Spielberg — “Blade Runner” was a visual triumph. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

“By future I mean the present. It’s bleak, Mary.” “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

The series is brutally violent, bleak and engrossing. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: The End of 'Scalped' 2012-11-30T20:18:21Z

Sequences of chanting show a different way to deal with bleak facts: quietly intoning things that happened as part of history. Review: Making Eloquent Theater From Bleak Facts 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“The Sacrifice” is a bleak and, at times, painful reading experience. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Though he doesn't shy away from the label "dystopian" — "That describes what it is" — he also doesn't see his body of work as some bleak end-times revelation or futurist prophecy. Sci-fi 'Ex Machina' feels modern, futuristic and classical at once 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It shows him touching down in gospel music at his bleakest times and, near the end, strains to present him as a spiritual figure. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Whitehead replied, “Life continues — empty, bleak, and seemingly without purpose.” Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

“It was a really bleak time,” David Schachter, who starred in the film as David, says to me in a Manhattan bar, blocks away from where the film was shot. 'There was a lot of panic' - behind the first movies to tackle the Aids crisis 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

And together the group fostered a kind of bleak, escapist, off-season way of life for artists that remains familiar to this day. The Inquisitive Guest Visits a Motherwell Retrospective 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to grasp the scope of the devastation from the road, but aerial videos and photographs reveal vast, bleak sandy wastelands punctuated with waste ponds and industrial installations where Wisconsin hills once stood. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

Unlike Creed, which reverberates with hope and vibrancy, these films are infused respectively with tragedy and bleak cynicism. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Despite the bleak violence he portrayed, there was an innocence to his world – the video to one of his early hits, Gin & Juice, showed partying kids panicking as the parents arrive back early. Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z

"What am I doing here?" he seems to be asking as he looks around at the bleak surroundings. Transformers 3: more robot flaws than robot wars 2011-02-09T09:27:00Z

Cypress trees grew in the bayous and creeks snaked through large swaths of farmland, which were worked by sharecroppers, whose own poverty was often bleaker than that of those in the camps. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Although it may not be clear why, a bleak marsh or haunted attic are as traditional as mistletoe. A terrifying Christmas in prospect 2010-12-24T13:30:18Z

I haven't seen it, but find it difficult to imagine it is as cynical and bleak as the novel. Step right up for carny classics 2010-10-21T09:25:00Z

But over the decades, “Nightmare Alley” reaped renewed interest among film devotees for its hard-boiled dialogue and bleak portrayal of an opportunist who gets his just deserts. Coleen Gray, doe-eyed beauty of film noir, dies at 92 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ratmansky’s version of the ghost story “Giselle” is both familiar and unfamiliar, with surprising nuances he has gleaned from archival sources, most strikingly, a hopeful ending in place of the usual bleak one. An Ad Hoc Ukrainian Ballet Troupe Settles Into Life in The Hague 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Visiting four convict sites, he “decided to concentrate on those bleak prison years and try to visualize the Georgian city that existed long before anyone was throwing shrimps on the barbie.” In Transit: Sunday Preview 2010-12-31T20:58:18Z

The unremittingly bleak descriptions of life for the mining families is both harrowing but impossible to ignore. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Could there be a bleaker denouement than her murder, given that she’s pregnant and that, if there is hope for humanity, it resides in her belly? The Walking Dead season seven premiere: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

However, I’m very drawn to northern, bleaker climes. Jane Alexander's Bird-Watching Tips 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

During the bleak days of the 1970s economy, characters were mostly committed to just getting by. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Overall poverty remained at the highs we've seen for the past three years, with the picture still particularly bleak for children: 15 percent of Americans and 1 in 5 children live in poverty. Motherlode Blog: When Parents Can't Enroll in Medicaid, Children Stay Uninsured 2012-09-26T15:41:10Z

Violent, bleak, and pessimistic, the movie benefits also from the single greatest car-chase – between Hackman and an elevated metro train – ever committed to film. The French Connection: No 14 2010-10-17T10:42:00Z

Employing minimal background music and a bleak, blue-gray color palette, Rasoulof evokes a sense of nihilism that is as suffocating as it is affecting. ‘A Man of Integrity’ Review: Fighting Dirty 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

I'd recovered from the shock, I did fear that the author of the undeniably bleak vision of those first two albums might not be a perfect fit for the environment he was to play in. Where's the strangest place you've been to watch a gig? 2012-08-17T14:07:46Z

It’s a harrowing backstory that would lead, in most cases, to a bleak future. Tiffany Haddish: on Girls Trip, saving the Hollywood comedy and the Dickensian horror of her life story 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

"It's a very challenging song, subject matter and it's super bleak." Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Morella: It works on so many levels — the social message, it’s entertaining, it’s silly, slapstick, dark, scary and bleak. Scrooge summit 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The tortured expression on Becky’s face tells us how profoundly she would like this to be so and yet how clearly she foresees the bleaker reality. Television: On ?Friday Night Lights,? Abortion in a Small Town 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z

"Matilda," the import from London, is a witty musical adaptation of the beloved novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground. Tony Award nominations may have a British accent 2013-04-29T18:51:14Z

The bleak, mythic vistas of the dramatist Sam Shepard and the novelist Cormac McCarthy come to mind, as well as films by Peckinpah and Ford. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

We'll talk to Rossum about the bleak moments her character endured this season, and how that fits into the series switching into the comedy category. Join a live chat with 'Shameless' star Emmy Rossum on Friday 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

It does snap to briefly when Ms. Surrey’s Janet stands up to her father, telling him plainly what her life has been like under his roof: bleak and bloodless. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z

Your future is bleak, and you may be perpetually tired. Five things that can make you a better parent right now 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Kate Mosse The Man Who Planted Trees is the story of one man's mission to bring new life to a bleak landscape in southern France. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z

Beneath its blithe humor, it, too, is a bleak vision of mismatched lives and misguided mores. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Though the world they depict is a grim one, the stories themselves are not unremittingly bleak. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z

It is a bleak outlook for domestic dramas. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Some critics say the films favored by festivals abroad tend to cater to a widespread perception of the Philippines as a bleak, impoverished place of slums, corruption and drugs. Filipino Filmmakers Shed Light on the Forgotten. They Hope It Can Last. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

It climbs when Dennis enters, his black clothing and bleaker silence effectively rendering him a negative of a person. Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Accordingly, her works are heavy and bleak, full of warnings and catastrophic failures to heed them. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

He describes his music as "informed, almost viscerally, by my depression", and spiky, atonal pieces such as The Noise Between Thoughts attack the listener with a bleak physical force. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

Sherlock co-creator Gatiss said he was "delighted our loyal audience tuned in on an appropriately bleak and stormy New Year's night". Sherlock return watched by 9.2m 2014-01-02T12:29:36Z

A gambit of daringly bleak nihilism that managed to be simultaneously hilarious and genuinely startling. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

All that’s needed to open tear ducts throughout the theater is there in the contrast between those impossibly bleak circumstances and a breezy, silly play as a source of diversion and solace. London Theater Journal: Discipline, Punish and Put on a Play 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

It was an icy night in February and the room was cold and bleak with filthy industrial carpeting and a small metal-framed bed covered by a thin beige comforter. A little room to write 2012-08-17T00:00:00Z

Fans of his short stories and autobiographical writings will hear echoes of the playwright’s life all across this familiarly bleak landscape. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

But the more I thought about those last few minutes, the more I’ve become convinced that Nolan opened the door for an even bleaker continuation of his pitch-black vision. Dark Knight Sequel: Did Christopher Nolan Pave Way to Something More Cryptic? 2012-07-24T12:00:07Z

Mr. Padilha was intent on addressing those objections in the sequel, 2010’s “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,” which is more comprehensively bleak about the spread of corruption, to which even B.O.P.E. is not immune. 'Narcos' Episode 2 Recap: Death to Kidnappers 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

The author was speaking at the launch of The Casual Vacancy, responding to an admission from Mark Lawson that the novel's "bleak and shocking climax" made him cry. The old magic 2012-09-27T22:37:10Z

Here, too, is a show about “man devouring man,” to quote a lyric from Mr. Sondheim that dovetails with Mr. Bond’s bleak, beautifully written preface to the newly published edition of “Saved.” Theater Review: Psychological Turbulence Onstage 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

For a time in the 1990s he lived in Allen Ginsberg’s apartment in New York, drawn to the bleak forecast for humanity that the Beat poets were shouting in English. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

It's quite bleak but quite beautiful, and quite average as well. Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z

A fable about an 11-year old motherless boy in a rough, depressed mining town, and his burgeoning passion for ballet dancing, the indie film was gritty but also sentimental, bleak but hopeful, too. Review: 'Billy Elliot' is pro-union, and pro-razzle-dazzle, too 2011-03-25T00:20:39Z

We didn’t go to Woody’s three hospitals — including Creedmoor in Queens, where he died — figuring we could skip this story’s big, bleak institutional chapters. Roaming Through Woody Guthrie’s New York 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

This bleak reality, however, has led some of the secondhand market’s most loyal shoppers to view continued in-store shopping as a moral imperative, to keep the small businesses that underpin the market alive. Secondhand Shoppers Worry About Their Favorite Local Spots 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

So the surprise, when we meet, is his miserable little office – a bleak sliver of the London School of Economics, surely nowhere near sumptuous enough for the dashing professor. Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z

Greenery can be a spiritual pick-me-up in the days of bleak midwinter. ‘Interpretation of Trees’ on exhibit at the Embassy of Argentina 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

God it sounds bleak, but it’s not all bleak, there is light and laughter as well. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

For all the darkness of season six – and this is horribly bleak, at the episode’s start and end – this memory loss episode managed to harness the perfect Buffy silliness that buoyed everything. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Given its transnational provenance – its Anglo-German source novel adapted by a British-Bengali screenwriter, its Australian director and its bleak Nazi-era subject matter – I'm reluctant to dub Lore a straightforwardly German movie. Lore: Cate Shortland's latest isn't your standard second world war movie 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z

After a short burst of flashbulb-lighted glory that includes a Studio 54 wedding to Binky, Chad winds up in a bleak hotel room, singing to himself: Review: A Dirge for Wilting Salad Days in ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The director started out in smaller, grittier crime fare but his bleak period drama The Immigrant, also sorely underseen, kicked off a new, more ambitious phase in his career. The early favourites: who might be winning Oscars in 2020? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

On a deeper level it is a searching, somewhat ham-handed allegory of American hubris in the 21st century and a bleak assessment of the country’s wobbly moral compass. Movie Review: ‘At Any Price,’ Directed by Ramin Bahrani 2013-04-23T22:09:27Z

In the diary her life on the Scilly Isles is bleak and boring. The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo - review 2012-02-09T15:00:00Z

"All I hear is one bleak feeling that lasts an hour." Crystal Castles sparkle with or without The Brain 2010-05-21T23:09:00Z

The main combatants are rival gangs, the Spartans and the Trojans, who have helped turn Chicago into a war zone — hence the tragic, bleak portmanteau title. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“I wasn’t prepared for how bleak it was.” Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But no current show is more certifiably bonkers or combines such demented visual imagination with its bleak moral philosophy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

His prose is often described as bleak, but in fact it practises a parity of gaze. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

The fact that much of the story is set in a literally bleaker landscape doesn't help matters. "Shrek" series finally ends with tired 3D outing 2010-04-22T11:49:00Z

Now, however, the future appears bleak for Israelis and Palestinians. Review: ‘Foreign Land’ Sees a Better Past Than Future for the Middle East 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Shackled and chained together in black biker regalia as master and slave, they occupy a sleek domestic living room instead of a bleak dungeon. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

It’s just a bleak and dangerous moment in our geopolitical landscape right now. Zachary Quinto on Gay Hollywood and Why Star Trek Beyond Is the Perfect Movie for Right Now 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

As an ending, it feels triumphant and bleak at the same time, which may be why I keep coming back to it. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

A bleaker, Nordic version of “The West Wing,” “Borgen” finds a remarkable amount of drama and suspense in center-left alliances, pension plans and televised debates. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

Why would this monster have this need trapped in this bleak dimension? Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

With its bleak, rainy nights and ominous, do-NOT-go-down-there basements, “Barbarian,” written and directed by Zach Cregger, is the kind of horror movie that makes you believe you know exactly where it’s headed. These Would Be Our Oscar Nominations 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

But it is a bleak place to inhabit — not because of a sense of guilt, it’s the agony of being someone who is obsessed by betrayal and vengeance. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Discouraged by the bleak prospects of publishing, she studied painting and printmaking and immersed herself in the new art moving through the city’s galleries and museums. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z

This is rather a bleak run of highlights for a life that, while occasionally lonely, has, she says, been full and fun and artistically satisfying. Life's looking up, Dame Harriet 2011-01-15T12:04:01Z

In these bleak circumstances, with characters I love dearly, breathing their last cradled by sobbing next of kin, it seemed absolutely fitting. TV review: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T21:01:00Z

The stars aligned for Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, its bleak, dystopian premise making for an appropriate victor in a year that saw Donald Trump take office and the #MeToo movement take off. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The three ghosts haunt Scrooge with his unhappy past, show him a present in which the long-suffering Cratchits endure their losses but stay big-hearted, and his own inevitably bleak future. The psychoanalyst's tale – why we need to tell stories to relieve our sorrows 2013-01-07T19:00:03Z

That bleak plotline, though, is repeatedly interrupted by short anecdotes of kindness, countervailing moments of friendship between Leila and other outcasts. Review | Elif Shafak continues to resist Turkey’s repressive government with brilliant fiction 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Since Wittels’ death, the trend has continued for blacker, bleaker comedy, not laugh out loud. ‘Harris Wittels was the funniest person I ever met’ – Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman and Aziz Ansari on a lost comic genius 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

It stands out from the other MCU movies in that respect, even though its reputation among fans is not much better than that of its bleak sequel, "Thor: The Dark World." MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

The reference to not seeing East Jerusalem or the bleak Israeli checkpoint of Qalandia furthers the sense of dislocation. Poem of the week: The bus to Ramallah by Jasmine Donahaye 2011-02-14T11:52:43Z

By then, even the most patient reader may be excused for being exhausted from all the bleak moodiness that preceded it. Review | Fans of Tana French are in for a surprise with ‘The Witch Elm’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Here’s the requirement for a quip, here’s the requirement to be interested in something you’re not interested in, and inside you’re feeling incredibly bleak and existential. Nobody Makes Films Like Alex Garland. But He Might Stop Making Them. 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Emphasizing the bleak canvas over the doomed souls who populate it, the show is more chilly than chilling. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Marlene Dietrich's Tanya watches over this doom like a witch or prophet, and a bleak reminder that there is no hope. Touch of Evil: No 2 2010-10-17T10:54:00Z

But Christopher has painted a bleak enough picture of their fall from grace to suggest that no happy ending is likely. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

Maybe you didn’t get work because of the way you look, I say – you do have an extraordinarily bleak face. Adeel Akhtar: ‘I thought, Ah, there is a power to this’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

He's presumably not planning on any more prank phone calls, and when I ask about the Australian DJs' hoax call which led to a nurse's suicide he looks suddenly bleak. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z

It looks a little bleak after that, but it’s not as bleak as it seems. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z

Where some see bleak social commentary, others just see nastiness for the sake of it. Black Mirror's Bandersnatch: Charlie Brooker's meta masterpiece 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

He was speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, and the atmosphere at the summit — billed as the “last, best hope” to save the planet — was bleak. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

CPS is presenting its bleak fiscal outlook in the midst of heated contract negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union, which leave much about the district's financial picture uncertain. CPS shortfall: 'There is going to be pain' 2012-03-28T02:49:00Z

As with his Lorca update, “Yerma,” Mr. Stone recontextualizes a classic playwright’s themes and characters in a desperately bleak contemporary setting. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Kander was Fred Ebb’s collaborator for four decades and the two transformed American theater with dark, bleak stories that had a socially conscious edge. Composer John Kander Rides New Creative Wave at 86 2013-10-16T14:09:00Z

Consider the matchups: Michael Connelly with that apotheosis of the urban diner, “Nighthawks,” Lee Child with the bleak “Hotel Lobby,” Joyce Carol Oates and the naked woman at the window of “Eleven A.M.,” Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Gone is the depressing vibe of a lonely Lean Cuisine or a bleak breakfast burrito — it’s a whole new frozen world. Millennials are finding hope up the frozen food aisle 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

The song has lyrics that are bleak, even by Mountain Goats’ standards: “And just before I leave/I throw up in the sink / One whole life recorded / In disappearing ink.” Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Songwriting for Tormented Souls 2012-09-25T15:00:13Z

The bleakest, bravest song on “Vulnicura” is “Black Lake,” which is dated in the album booklet as “2 months after” the separation. For Björk, a New Album, ‘Vulnicura,’ and a MoMA Show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

And yet, even in those bleak circumstances, his music felt so charismatic, so near, so alive. Perspective | Drakeo the Ruler wanted us to listen close. His death brings a disorienting silence. 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Yet within this bleak worldview, Heinecken devoted his career to the only "mystic truth" worth revealing: that we must be continually jolted out of our passivity. Hard truths and savage intensity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The 57-year-old retired from directing after the release in 2011 of "The Turin Horse", a bleak, black-and-white portrayal of a peasant and his daughter abandoned by man and God in their remote, windswept cottage. Bela Tarr swaps film making for running unique school 2013-02-25T13:02:17Z

Many of our predictions are bleak, about bad situations probably becoming worse. Looking ahead: Top food and agriculture stories for 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

THE AMERICANS,” just as bleak and even better in Season 3. 2015’s Best TV: I Hate Top Ten Lists, but O.K., Fine, Here’s a List 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

For her best known project, a series called “Ugly Babies,” she constructed and photographed bleak scenes featuring baby dolls. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Over 72 issues, Wood detailed this bleak, not-so-distant future, where Manhattan serves as a demilitarized zone between the United States government and the secessionist Free States of America. 10 Great TV Shows Just Waiting to Be Made 2013-10-03T09:45:34Z

The “Ballad” mostly feels bleak, claustrophobic and funereal. Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The detectives she most admired scorned elite L.A.P.D. divisions and worked the bleakest parts of Los Angeles, devoting themselves to, as she puts it, “making black lives expensive.” Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside,’ a South Los Angeles Murder Case 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In our bleak age, Dracula has become a necessary monster. In Art and Words, a Book Lover Honors the Characters He Can’t Forget 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Searching for Sugar Man” takes its title from “Sugar Man,” a bleak portrait of a drug dealer and his clients that is the first track on Rodriguez’s debut album, “Cold Fact,” released in March 1970. A Film Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez 2012-07-20T15:58:26Z

The movie, which is seeking U.S. distribution, also has inescapable echoes of the violence in Ferguson, Mo., as fraught relations with the police only worsen a bleak situation. 'Tales of the Grim Sleeper' documentary looks at L.A. slaying suspect 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Over the series, V.I. has been growing progressively darker in mood, but throughout her bleakest times, work has always been her salvation. Best mystery books and thrillers of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

It's a tonally strange break from the usual excitement, but one that shows humans at their best and worst in a bleak and hostile environment. Six to watch: Star Trek episodes 2013-05-09T15:16:48Z

Somehow both outrageously silly and bleak at once, it’s a show I binge as soon as it drops. My Not-Top-Ten Television List, 2018 Edition 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ambassador Pageant, hails from Birmingham, Ala., known for some of the bleaker chapters in African American history. Anecdotes from the African American Museum’s grand opening 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Unless those higher up in the industry are prepared to acknowledge the disparity between the commercial success of Spotify and the royalty rates paid to artists, the outlook for smaller musicians will remain bleak. Sam Duckworth: Thom Yorke's right – artists can't survive on Spotify streams 2013-07-16T16:26:22Z

The play is unrelievedly bleak, but with a denouement of unexpected hope: a moving, almost revelatory evening of theater, and easily the best new play of the year. When the Rain Stops Falling: The Year's Best New Play 2010-03-18T09:35:00Z

It's also often a time of year we often feel bleak and depleted, in need as much of comfort as kale. A stick-to-your ribs breakfast salad to start your day right 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Yet, as Haley’s story unfolds, the landscape begins to be terrifying, unutterably strange and bleak, a cloud hanging over it day and night. Review: ‘Roots,’ by Alex Haley 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Eventually, we drove up onto bleak, washed-out roads where, through the scratched plastic windows, we anxiously watched the steep mountainsides for rock slides. 2010-01-14T18:35:00Z

The strength of “Frog” is bleak humor, not overworked misery. Review: In Mo Yan’s ‘Frog,’ a Chinese Abortionist Embodies State Power 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The singer becomes the protagonist of this bleak story about a young man jilted by his beloved, who now fancies someone else. Matthias Goerne Sings Kentridge’s Version of ‘Winterreise’ 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Even if your Facebook presence is as bleak as Don José’s in this staging, living in an opera may not be the answer. Review: ‘Carmen,’ Boldly Rewritten as Therapy for a Modern Man 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Yet the perspective that infuses them is as bleak as anything from those greatest of theatrical modernists, Beckett and Chekhov. Review: A Heartbreaker Returns in ‘The Young Man From Atlanta’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Some might find his skewed tone a bit bleak over long stretches, and he doesn't vary his dynamics much. Odean Pope/Billy Hart/Lee Smith: Odean's Three – review 2013-01-10T22:55:01Z

But the bleak erotic wisdom that suffuses most of her writing is filtered, in “Gigi,” through a gauze of nostalgia for quaint French naughtiness. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

There's lots of death and lots of sex; the world is relentlessly bleak and war is hell. Is A Game of Thrones the most eagerly anticipated TV show ever? 2010-07-23T11:11:00Z

Listening to the music over and over, I am repeatedly struck by its rollercoaster quality: vulnerability countered by sudden violence, absurd comedy snapping into bleak sorrow. Daniel Kramer: Carmen, I've cracked you 2011-01-12T21:31:00Z

Their outlook is bleak but tough, and their clothes looked ready for some soon-arriving war in the streets. When Dressing the Future Means Skipping the Present 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer wrote, “Land survived the hardship of her years as a maid, her body exhausted and her brain filled with bleak arithmetic, to offer her testimony. It’s worth listening to.” The Author Behind ‘Maid’ Has a Room — and a Voice — of Her Own 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Butoh is a bleak, raw performance art that rose from the physical and psychological devastation of Japan after World War II. In the decades since, its influence has spread, as illustrated by this festival. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Without the dressing of a string quartet that lent the original recording a classical gloss, the song was a bleak portrait of stoic common people. Review: Barb Jungr Applies Her Emphatic Voice to the Beatles’ Music 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

These blatant retro flourishes – embellished by the singer’s “Mad Men”-era beehive -- were given a modern twist on “Back to Black” with its semi-autobiographical lyrics and bleak humor. Album review: Amy Winehouse, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures' 2011-12-05T18:40:00Z

Despite the metros with negative home equity, the situation isn't so bleak across the country. Where Americans Are Losing Home Equity Most 2010-05-06T20:10:00Z

As with Polanski’s work, the film ultimately turns dark and bleak. Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

By reaching across time, the book presents a bracingly pessimistic, even bleak, vision. What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

She was very sort of anti-capitalist and wanted me to just be exposed to obscure, bleak European cinema. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Beyond a few professors and close friends, she didn’t routinely tell people of her bleak diagnosis as she focused on staying alive. Should cancer be kept secret? 2012-07-25T16:46:00Z

Besides, the world was at its bleakest when the camera peaked over the horizon and showed us the prison, a place where our main characters found a temporary measure of peace. The Walking Dead Watch: ‘Claimed’ 2014-02-24T02:09:50Z

She writes a bleak novel, “The Gin Closet,” about an alcoholic woman. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The book is bleak and venomous and yet it’s written with such spare beauty. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The film, if anything, is even bleaker than the novel. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z

The title track was a mawkish devotional number with slide show that depicted a bleak winter landscape turning into lush summer. Live review 2010-04-14T00:12:00Z

And it was bleak because Don Draper was the bleakest. Mad Men makes its final pitch: for hope (Warning: spoilers) 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

And when the play moves into the bleaker territory of its second act, the transition is jolting for the wrong reasons. Review: ‘Legacy,’ an Uneasy Comedy of Morals at Williamstown Festival 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Death has become not just the punchline of black comedy, but the setting itself, and initially things look pretty bleak. Dead and loving it: why has TV become so obsessed with the afterlife? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

He did not want the series to be seen solely as a bleak fiction, but neither did he want it to forsake its moral mission. On Track for the Apocalypse, ‘Snowpiercer’ Comes to Television 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

After the beautifully bleak Christmas setting of Batman Returns Tim Burton was the ideal talent to give the season of goodwill a Halloween make-over in the early 1990s. Oliver Pfieffer: Is Christmas the new Hallowe'en at the cinema? 2010-12-24T12:55:29Z

I very much liked Bunny Christie’s design, elegantly lit by Jon Clark, suggestive of a gaping bleak, black hole in which anything is possible, given the impossible mess we are making of life on Earth. Theater Review: In London, Climate Change Comes to the Stage 2011-02-08T12:30:07Z

The electronic beats and strings and atmospheres felt modishly bleak, seeming to push him toward a beautiful-loser persona that he’s always been better off resisting. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-22T00:00:27Z

One of the film's strengths was that although it was bleak, there were elements of friendship and love, and there was a positive ending. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z

In the most tense and thrilling live-reported moment of the evening, Blitzer opened a window, or perhaps a metaphor, into the bleak heart of the problem. ‘Oh! So frustrating indeed!’: Not even Wolf Blitzer could take the agony of waiting for Iowa 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The final note is audaciously bleak, a stinging reminder that grief and trauma are all around us, a reminder that many of us might not need right now. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Invitation 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

The world Cronenberg paints is bleak and cynical, and he is unsparing with his closeups of needles entering veins. Antiviral brings Cronenberg father-son act to Cannes 2012-05-21T16:51:13Z

The ’60s did turn bleaker, as that period’s early optimism faded into violence and rebellion, but advertising was still in its heyday at the end of the decade. The TV Watch: Don Draper and Associates Wrap Up Season 6 2013-06-24T16:26:28Z

“Pablo!” he called it, “probably the bleakest book I ever wrote, and I wrote it when I was 18.” From ‘City of Night’ to ‘After the Blue Hour,’ John Rechy’s lyrical voice speaks many truths 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Even bleaker was a painting by the 35-year-old Lucien Smith: “When a Man Loves a Woman,” a two-year-old abstract canvas of spray paint. An Anemic Auction Yields Just $52 Million at Phillips 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Russaks’ former address led us to a bleak, graffiti-covered high-rise in the middle of what was, under Nazi occupation, the Lodz Ghetto. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

From the second we select “watch now”, we know that it will be bleak. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

In the interview, Dr. Ali painted a bleak picture of the state of Egyptian archaeological sites and the inability of the government to protect them. Egypt Asks U.S. to Impose Sharp Curbs on Importing of Antiquities 2014-03-14T22:09:51Z

But combining exquisite singing, youthful allure, affecting vulnerability and, by the end, bleak intensity, Ms. Oropesa emerged on Wednesday as a major Violetta. Review: Lisette Oropesa Makes ‘La Traviata’ Her Own 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

While he spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

There is a windswept bleakness about many of the new enclaves, but it's a curious new kind of bleak. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The bleak picture is a condemnation of how fighting is romanticized, often burying the grim truth of battle, as well as the unfair expectations placed on Japanese women in times of war and peace. Turkish film wins in Berlin, Polanski honored 2010-02-21T00:39:00Z

That’s the bleak scenario at the Metropolitan Opera, where fractious labor negotiations threaten to disrupt the new season for the first time in more than 30 years. Lockout looms as Met contracts set to expire 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian moviegoers are facing a bleak year of second-rate foreign releases and lowbrow local productions as Hollywood studios, the government and movie importers remain locked in a protracted standoff. Indonesians bemoan Hollywood blockbuster blackout 2011-06-28T11:15:12Z

Terry, who was a diabetes patient on dialysis, said his hopes for a kidney were bleak because waiting for a matching cadaver kidney could have taken years. Kidney transplant chain has links in Chicago 2012-02-20T15:35:00Z

Then again, a world in which no one ever said sorry is a bleak one to contemplate. Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Auntie Maude and the art of saying sorry 2013-03-05T14:30:02Z

When we last left the characters in the holiday musical episode “My Furry Valentine,” things were pretty bleak for fan-favorite Andrew Glouberman. Netflix's best new releases in October, from the "Breaking Bad" movie to "Big Mouth" 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

She’s got all the vocal glamour and acting chops needed to make it through the title role of the composer Leos Janacek’s bleak yet affecting opera. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

There’s not much of a respite for the reader in this bleak, powerful novel, either. ‘The Glorious Heresies’: A nasty world of faith and vice in 21st-century Ireland 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

The worlds Ms. Arnold creates, often centered on a lone female protagonist, aren’t bleak or preachy, but intimate and laced with unexpected humor and the power to shock, particularly when it comes to sex. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z

This is Black Mirror, so it’s not giving much away to say that it’s unrelentingly bleak. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The images create the impression of a bleak landscape, a Hungary where the past, present and future appear drained not only of color, but of hope itself. ‘Twilight’ Review: Film Noir in the Hungarian Hills 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

The new three-album set — something they created and recorded during the pandemic, during bleak times for the country — was an important project for them as they spent time harmonizing, Golden told Fox News Digital. William Lee Golden on 'Peaceful Easy Feeling': 'Always enjoyed this song' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Then, just at the time that things look bleakest for the Little House, she is saved. 'The Little House' and 'Brown Bear' chalk up big anniversaries 2012-03-24T04:14:31Z

Maybe it's because I'm a naturally melancholy person, and fall is the most melancholy time of year -- a brief, final flowering of life before bleak winter settles in. Leaf peep show: The greatest autumn movies 2010-10-23T01:01:00Z

“The Neighborhood” is a bleak introduction to one of America’s most dangerous cities told by figures from its past, present, and future. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Most of "Beautiful Boy" is unrelentingly bleak and depressing, but there are smatterings of understatement and grace. 'Beautiful Boy': Imagining the unimaginable after a campus massacre 2011-06-16T20:06:04Z

Novelist Ron Hansen, writing in the New York Times Book Review in 1991, called Mr. Bowden “a thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice.” Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69

Reading the bleak, provocative book, one might sense that it was written in a hurry; the plot is cluttered with a few too many secondary characters and narrative coincidences. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

We chose to shoot in the Dales because we felt it looked more photogenic and less bleak than the Moors. Take a Tour of ‘All Creatures’ Country 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Whereas Williams’s stage directions describe the set as “rather dim and poetic,” this production begins with a bleak, nearly naked, fully lighted stage, with a metal cart of props. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Be smart, people; stay home and you’ll survive — Even though that turkey’s looking mighty bleak — It’s grown a fungus and tends to reek; Still, you get to eat it for another week! Style Invitational Week 1382: For us, it’s still Post Time — it’s our annual foal name contest 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

In an interview withHuffPost, the show’s creator, Bruce Miller, discusses how he actually sees the show’s ostensibly bleak arc as optimistic. The future isn't female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid's Tale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Punctuated with sudden explosions, random mayhem, yelling, cursing, and ringing telephones, “The Oak” is impossibly busy as well as incredibly bleak. ‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, she focuses on areas haunted by an urban dispossessed, which regeneration seeks to concrete over: city wastelands where fortress-like old tower-blocks rise, with their Escher-like walkways and bleak "recreational" open spaces. Artist of the week 126: Laura Oldfield Ford 2011-02-18T13:09:32Z

"Animal Kingdom" writer-director David Michod returns with the very different "The Rover," starring Guy Pearce as a sullen loner who seeks revenge on a group of bandits in a bleak, futuristic Australia. 'Neighbors' having good, not-so-clean fun 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

In rendering them in bleak black and white the cropper also isolated them, reducing a conversation piece to two alienated individuals. MI5's uselessly dehumanised crop of the 7/7 bombers picture 2011-02-22T16:14:44Z

Ms. Gautney’s analysis of present-day America, like Mr. Sanders’s, is unsparingly bleak. Blue States, Red Diapers, White Hair 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

There is a humorlessness to the script, a lack of wit or substance, with fountains of blatant exposition and an unremittingly bleak and somber tone. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The idea that threats r going to stop people from going to a theater & laughing is so bleak… Now I've never wanted to see a movie more. Hollywood Stars Support 'The Interview' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

That it’s also painted a rather bleak and cynical picture of humans and their ways of behaviour is something for another day. Westworld finale recap – robot army, assemble! 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

You could argue that the principles the Tea Party stand for suggest a bleak, brutal, self-centred view of humanity, but it's not as if the band's oeuvre is overflowing with goodwill towards their fellow man. Alexis Petridis on the Velvet Underground's Mo Tucker 2010-10-06T20:45:00Z

Critics called season one of The Leftovers one of the bleakest shows on television. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The Irish band Lankum amplifies the bleakest tidings of Celtic traditional songs, leaning into minor modes and unswerving drones, harnessing traditional instruments and studio technology. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

The once-bleak economic situation of millennials forced to string multiple jobs together has become even bleaker in the economic collapse caused by the pandemic. Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Playing out like a bleak Boogie Nights, the film, shot by Israel’s Tomer Heymann over eight years, catches Agassi’s swift climb to the top then sticks with him through a slow, ugly decline. Former porn star Jonathan Agassi: I'd be dead if they hadn't made a documentary about me 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Did he wonder if the play, a three-act tragedy that Hunter doesn’t acknowledge as bleak, made life in Idaho seem too dismal? Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

But the bleak routine of the teens’ lives changes dramatically within a short period of time. Eerie visitor, string of murders haunt B.C. logging town 2014-02-19T20:14:55Z

Easy growing vines Recycled materials find new life in a pool Painted cottage porch Taking your yard from bleak to blooming requires a little patience. Backyards from A-Z 2010-09-03T05:52:00Z

As the film-makers readily admit, and the casting of Robert DeNiro betrays, Joker follows in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese’s triumphantly bleak 1970s/80s movies Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

His home is called Bleak House, but the only bleak thing about it is the distant shadow of Chancery. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z

And it is funny, because “someplace new” is inevitably just one more drab apartment or bleak landscape on the ragged edge of American life. Review | Sam Pink’s ‘Ice Cream Man’ explores life on the fringes 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

While few characters in “Eight Hours” wind up dead or humiliated, it’s not as if Mr. Fassbinder’s bleak worldview has entirely gone away. Review: ‘Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day,’ Another Fassbinder Masterpiece 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

In the bleak world that this story presents, wit and irony, along with jazz and literary fiction, have evaporated in the heat of a second Holocaust sometime in the 21st century. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future

Tonight's show does little to turn Woolhouse's default setting beyond bleak; one song, People Get Still, is borderline alarming. Deptford Goth – review 2013-04-27T23:05:38Z

The often bleak speculative fiction of Octavia E. Butler might seem an odd escape from the news, but I found most of the vampires in Butler’s final novel, FLEDGLING, somehow reassuring. New & Noteworthy, From French Pancakes to a Bipartisan Road Trip 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

The streets of Philadelphia are a romantic hunting ground for the four main characters in “Beautiful Something,” Joseph Graham’s bleak, agonized study of gay men looking for connection. Review: ‘Beautiful Something’: Craving Love in Philadelphia 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

If too many contemporary novels strike you as effete and suburban, here’s survivalist fiction at its rawest from a novelist who sometimes sounds as bleak as our own Cormac McCarthy. Review | The tale of a disaffected teen on the run from a crime he didn’t commit 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Khristen, a teenager, arrives at this bleak vacationland after the boarding school to which her mother has abandoned her scatters students to the four winds. Review | The post-apocalyptic world of Joy Williams’s ‘Harrow’ reads like a cautionary tale 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It is a bleak and hellish destination to which she leads us. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Echoes” initially took me a few tries to get through simply because the episode is so bleak and startling, but the content is incredibly important. The 10 must-listen podcast episodes of the decade 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

America's funniest fake news programme is filmed in an unassuming building in the middle of the unremittingly bleak stretch of run-down brownstones and warehouses just west of Midtown Manhattan known as Hell's Kitchen. Carrying the Fire 2010-08-27T23:02:00Z

Their live show sees the sombre threesome play the majority of their concept album in order, but it is soon clear that Hospice's bleak splendours do not transfer readily to the stage. The Antlers 2010-05-23T21:15:00Z

This bleak portrait of a woman defending her identity, which opened on Tuesday night at 59E59 as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, is letting no one off easy. Review: ‘Tuesday’s at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman’s Travail 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

It is among Pinter's most enigmatic and densely loaded forays — and among his bleakest. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z

Only the place where they were working is the opposite of summer camp: Alcatraz, the notoriously bleak military prison turned maximum-security penitentiary turned national park. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Shot largely in black-and-white, the movie is a tonal and thematic change of pace for the director Jacques Audiard, who has a habit of haunting the grimmer, bleaker corners of human existence. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Arguably the bleakest film ever made – at least until Requiem for a Dream. Bernd Eichinger: a career in clips 2011-01-28T10:58:00Z

My issue is with how bleak and depressing it is. Romesh Ranganathan: Joker left me in need of a lie down. Is The Lion King more my style? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

And the greater happiness of those under 45 may be because they’re too thick to appreciate how utterly bleak, miserable and cold the universe is, but again that doesn’t matter. 20 reasons to be cheerful in middle age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

I don’t think it’s a fool’s errand to really try to express and explain yourself to your loved ones, but some bleak mornings, I do wake up and think it’s all a farce. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

In Texas, where he winters, he paints bleak, flat, sun-baked landscapes relieved by metal barns and oil well pumps. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z

It's a bleak description of drug dealing, violence, limited horizons and fatalism. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z

The Gallagher clan has endured deaths, mental illnesses, prison stints, addictions and so much more over seven bleak, hilarious seasons. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Shameless’ and ‘Last Week Tonight’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

That’s the question at the Emmy Awards this year as voters choose whether to reward television dramas and comedies that provide comfort and escapism, or bleaker fare that echoes troubled times. Escapism or realism? Top Emmy races pose a choice 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Even before the family’s misfortune, life in rural Indiana is represented as a dystopian version of “Little House on the Prairie” — unrelentingly bleak, and spiritually as well as materially impoverished. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

This list lists toward bleak comedy, which may suggest an alignment of current personal tastes, prevailing national mood, and a televisual trend of mining tragedy for farce. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

One gallery brings us inside a space meant to evoke the pole itself, with the tent Scott found pitched there by the rival party; it is surrounded by bleak, ghastly, icy vistas. Exhibition Review: Race to the South Pole at Museum of Natural History 2010-05-28T22:30:00Z

The Cenotaph is also a raw, bleak object, but we are glad it is there, pleased that poppies are worn and a silence held to remember the war. How much bearing should private grief have on public art? 2011-03-10T13:00:04Z

Yet “Low Winter Sun” is so clotted with bleak cityscapes, shadowy interiors and brooding portent that the narrative sags under the weight of all that mood-setting. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z

But beneath the consumerist middle-class trappings that usually adorn Mr. Ayckbourn’s work, there also lurks the shadow of Samuel Beckett, for whom wild laughter was always an appropriate response to the bleak human condition. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

When the ticket stubs for summer are totalled up, they will paint a bleak picture: takings are expected to be down by as much as 15% year-on-year to an estimated $3.8bn. Even superheroes may not be able to save Hollywood’s desperate summer 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Turkey stands at the bleak vanguard of a tendency seen all over now, not least in the United States: a cultural politics of perpetual grievance, where even in victory you are indignant. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

It would be a mistake to see this rekindled industrialism purely as bleak music for bleak times, though. The new wave of British industrial techno … and you can dance to it 2012-06-08T23:05:18Z

Olive is a rescuer, too, but in a very different way, one that matches a terrain where winter is bleak and even spring has some harshness in its bloom. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

She also somehow finds ways to bring wit and energy into even the bleakest scenes. 'Started Early, Took My Dog': Kate Atkinson's story of a cop, a child rescue and a fabulous dog 2011-03-31T20:30:05Z

There’s a reason for that: Ms. Cohen remembers her bleak formative years in the vegetarian wilderness. Amanda Cohen Replants Her Vegetable Restaurant Dirt Candy 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Watching it now, it’s a statement as bold as it is bleak. How David Bowie Told Us He Was Dying in the 'Lazarus' Video 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

At a news conference before the performance, a journalist asked Mr. Handke whether it wasn’t all a bit bleak. Critic’s Notebook: Philip Glass’s ‘Spuren der Verirrten’ Has Debut in Linz 2013-04-17T21:39:00Z

Raw, bleak but vibrantly rendered, it exposed the faultlines of modern France – racial, generational, economic – against a backdrop of sterile housing estates and simmering police tension. Mathieu Kassovitz: 'I'm not proud to be French any more' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z

This bleak, funny observation glints like a bit of obsidian held in the hand for a moment, but the spell cast by this richly textured new play is ultimately optimistic. | 'Kin': No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely 2011-03-22T02:01:24Z

But what’s really dislodged him from his usual groove is the bleak fact that the play’s title character is dead. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Even the impetus behind the journey, which does include a trip back to Las Vegas, the scene of the wickedly fun original, is bleak. The Hangover Part III: The Third Time’s the Harm 2013-05-22T23:43:08Z

Traces of indigenous culture are also notably harder to find, the result of massacres and mass resettlements; Tasmania's history in that regard is particularly bleak. From Top End to Tasmania: Two Very Different Sides of Australia 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Fun isn't really The Leftovers' goal; like The Sopranos, it can feel unrelentingly bleak. HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

So what I look at is these bleak stories: they're narratives and they introduce you to a character and the character says something. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

No such bleak shadows hover over the Taproot rendering — which takes the play at face value, and focuses on its intrinsic charms. Into the Wilde with Taproot's 'Ideal Husband' 2011-10-03T18:07:04Z

It was difficult to write it in the third person -- it became too bleak. Book Talk: The humorous side of Pakistan's troubles 2011-05-05T11:08:23Z

This cycle may seem bleak, but for Mr. Coatney ephemerality is another day at work. Hipster Culture and Instagram Are Responsible for a Good Thing 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

This is a bleak reading of a play that is bleak enough. Timon of Athens – review 2012-06-06T13:07:03Z

But the halcyon days of the mid-80s are over; we are into a bleaker terrain than even the worst years of Thatcherism. 100% arts funding cut? This Newcastle budget is an act of vandalism 2012-12-18T15:45:01Z

Some are calling it wrenching, or bleak, or poetic. Lynne Ramsay's stark 'Kevin' gets Cannes talking 2011-05-12T14:43:09Z

A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop. Patagonia adventure: a voyage round Cape Horn 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Being lonesome and listless is often both the topic and the feeling, but the songs also carry a pleasure in the achievements of their flat, sometimes bleak exactitude. Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, he heads into Scotland’s bleak, underpopulated north country. Detective John Rebus returns 2013-01-24T23:29:57Z

The days are bleak, our vitamin D comes mostly in pill form, and it feels like all the good parties are squarely in the rearview. The ultimate guide to hosting your first fondue party 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

He’s as drab as the room in which he is painting a self-portrait, daubing on color that help turns the scene into a masterpiece of bleak. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The three members of a band responsible for some of the most searingly bleak music of the past 20 years radiate a feeling of domestic contentment. Portishead 2011-07-16T23:04:05Z

"The book is bleaker, grimmer, weirder than what you could put on screen," says Pichette. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

Shetland is almost entirely treeless, with a terrain that veers mainly between the barren and the bleak, but is adorably dotted with the tiny ponies that take their name from the place. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The heroines of both works rebel against the confines of their bleak lives, but in typical operatic fashion, one ends up dead, the other heartbroken. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Kiss’ at the Opera Theater of St. Louis 2013-06-23T20:56:36Z

At home, Britons faced bleak and dispiriting postwar deprivation, and globally their once-mighty Empire was crumbling in the face of colonial independence movements — including Jamaica’s. ‘Goldeneye’: Jamaica, Ian Fleming and James Bond 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

If your appetites extend to the bleak and grotesque, you'll want to seek it out. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z

As for Fincher, his chilly temperament "meshes well with the unsettlingly bleak view of human nature that 'Gone Girl' is all about." 'Gone Girl' a chilly, precisely crafted thriller, reviews say 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The message here, of course, is pretty bleak, and throughout the show, there is a deep sense of self-awareness. From "Sex/Life" to "Kevin," TV offers new answers to whether women can “have it all” 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Kein Licht” treats its bleak topics — stupidity and blindness leading to man-made apocalypse — with neurotic humor and a taste for the absurd. At 75, the Holland Festival Is Back and More Global Than Ever 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

The panels arrived in London on the same bleak February day in 1970 that he cut open his arms in his New York studio and died at the age of 66. Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z

But it wasn’t until he read the script for “Devotion,” the film he directed that is now in theaters, that he learned of Brown’s story, and was moved to tears by its bleak familiarity. A Cast and Crew’s Commitment to Making ‘Devotion’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

A great fear of single urbanites comes unhappily true for the central character in “A Life,” a bleak new play by Adam Bock that opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons. Review: In ‘A Life,’ Lonely and Looking to the Stars for Answers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

But, inevitably, his darkness returned, and galleries tried to dissuade him from this bleaker work. An Early, Wordless Graphic Novel About Mankind’s Appetite for War 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The compositions hurl notes with maniacal relentlessness, the harmonies bristle with dissonance, and the lyrics, when they occasionally appear, are bleak. King Crimson Plays at the Best Buy Theater 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Solitary confinement induces the bleakest depression, plunging despair, and terrifying hallucinations. “We’re dying in here, miss, we’re dying!”: Horrors I saw in solitary confinement 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Only Carter could make all this live and breathe, and deliver Melanie from the grip of her lush adolescent dreams to the bleak street of her adult life. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z

Eventually I commit to a bleak corner and sit in the white-blue light until I have to get up and do something else. Therapy lamps tested: ‘The optical equivalent of freezing cold shower' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The bleak, rigorous cynicism of the script is matched perfectly by Mr. Edgerton’s ruthless cinematic discipline. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z

Written and filmed on the director’s family farm, it depicts a shiveringly bleak rural homeland, abandoned to faith and neglected by its young — who learn too late they’ve been gone too long. ‘The Dark and the Wicked’ Review: Home, but Not Alone 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

It was bleak stuff, but moving and important. John Cooper Clarke; Assignment: radio review 2013-05-03T06:00:22Z

The Treasure” is like the work of Samuel Beckett’s long-lost Balkan cousin — bleak, stoic and suffused with a flinty, exasperated empathy for its ridiculous characters. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, in terms of the directors he’s collaborated with thus far or the bleak subjects that he’s been asked to work with, but I’m a huge fan of the Martinez approach. How a Red Hot Chili Pepper Gave Drive Its Pulse 2012-02-01T13:59:49Z

Hall likes his coffee the way he likes his prestige series — dark — and his sense of humor skews bleak, too. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt was an eerie and disturbing film, a western, of sorts, and a bleak one. Meek's Cutoff and Post Mortem shine at Venice film festival 2010-09-06T09:48:00Z

That was also a bleak film, far more so than "Dark Phoenix." "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

He rescues a Jewish scientist from a bleak labor camp. Review: Alternate-history Nazis cry ‘Wolfenstein’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Brotherus often punctuates the bleak beauty of her homeland with a solitary rambler: herself. Artist of the week 104: Elina Brotherus 2010-09-08T16:13:00Z

His characters dress flamboyantly in mink coats and beanie hats, or all-in-one jump suits and find poetry in an invented vernacular which swoops from firecracker dialogue to bleak pastoral. Ireland's Kevin Barry wins Impac award 2013-06-07T12:09:28Z

A bleak tan building stood on the corner of this industrial part of town, its roof edged with blackened soot, which had begun to run down its exterior like smeared mascara. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

It's certainly not brimming with seasonal cheer, but Chris Ware's latest graphic extravaganza is an object of bleak, intricate beauty. Christmas gifts 2012: the best fiction 2012-11-29T08:30:02Z

There’s clearly something about the character’s heady mixture of theatricality, bleak humor, and good old-fashioned psychopathy that attracts thespians of note. The Jokers, Ranked 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

His Sally sings “Cabaret” in a state of shock, full of wrath as she stares down her bleak future, and all actresses, Larkin included, sound the same in this climactic moment. Review | Sam Mendes’s ‘Cabaret’ icy and not much fun at the Kennedy Center 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The episode entitled The Grim Reaper is particularly bleak, ending with Death itself murdering Grami and sneaking off with his corpse. Netflix, no! What's that penis doing on kids' TV? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Despite its upbeat melody, that song’s lyrics, recounting a fictional battle between the Chicago police and Al Capone’s gang, were bleaker than Mr. Callander’s usual fare: Peter Callander, Lyricist of ‘The Night Chicago Died,’ Dies at 74 2014-03-14T04:53:02Z

Escape they must, or this would be one bleak trilogy, into a Maze of New Brutalist architecture and mystic combinations to mysterious chambers. Review: The Hunger Games Meets The Lord the Flies in The Maze Runner 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The story centers on three well-to-do suburban families — the Slates, the Kellys and the Conrads — and one bleak February night that changes all their lives. Three Canadian Novels Test the Bonds — and Boundaries — of Family 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Back then, the setting was the cosy world of Miss Marple, where bleak reality never intruded. Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction 2013-07-11T11:35:00Z

Greenway locates a bleak personal odyssey amid serene natural beauty, which offers her tortured protagonist glimpses of a world beyond suffering and sorrow. ‘The Bird Skinner’: bleak, beautiful tale of a man in retreat 2014-01-15T22:16:27Z

This is a remarkable novel, both bleak and chastening. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z

It carries a bleak 22 percent average on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. 'Crazy Rich Asians' has exceptionally strong second weekend,... 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

The closing moments showed Ani and Jordan wandering through a sea of celebration and fellowship, a marked contrast to the endless highways and bleak industrial landscapes that appeared throughout the season. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

But its bleak ending is mitigated by the energy of the cast and the spirit of the filmmaking. ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

His American combat uniform — a few sizes too large — is draped over his shoulders, and seems scant in this cold and bleak setting of mud, snow, and mortared ground. Fred Korematsu's freedom fight: Remembering a Japanese American hero who resisted internment 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“The situation for the weavers isn’t any less bleak than it was five or six years ago,” she said. For Indian Weavers in Varanasi, Help for an Endangered Craft 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Their stories have been described as possessing an "aura of charged stillness", a term that could also be applied to the quietly bleak paintings of Edward Hopper. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

I got the idea for it during the bleakest days of last winter. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

But there’s another message, a rather bleak one, especially taken in concert with Tyrion’s parable of Orson the Methodically Murderous Simpleton from a couple weeks ago. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Season 4 Finale 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

The Dartmoor Prison museum at Princetown, perched on a bleak outcrop of the Devon moors, is a dark and salutary delight. Why I went to prison on my holiday 2010-08-22T18:59:00Z

His bleak contemporary tidings arrive in rich, retro settings. Father John Misty: The End Is Near, Sing All About It 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

As I want to stress, the novel’s bleak, sometimes Buddhist-like understanding of life, sex and the nature of things doesn’t offer what you’d call a fun time, only an unforgettable one. Review | ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ may have sold 596 copies in its first printing, but it deserves a wider audience 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Not only did the studio, RKO, scrap the bleak ending and shoot a new, anodyne one, it also ultimately destroyed the excised footage. The story of the final — and unfinished — work of Orson Welles 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

It was so bleak that I staggered to the phone and called my agent and said, ‘Let me write a chapter before I sign.’ Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

It's an entertaining, but bleak, picture of politics in this country too, a world of bitter competitiveness and ruthless ambition that has very little to do with the interests of the country. The Politician's Husband – TV review 2013-04-26T06:00:11Z

By the end of the book, you might be convinced the situation is bleak, with Amazon fated to rule all facets of social and economic life. What Is Amazon Doing to Our Country? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

These bleak circumstances and lack of opportunities lead the characters to make dreadful decisions with tragic, often violent consequences. Books of The Times: Two Women Love One Man, Worthy of Neither 2011-06-19T21:55:18Z

With an appropriately bleak final twist, this is a perfectly paced jaunt. This week's new games 2012-08-10T23:05:31Z

Despite bleak weather, Boris Johnson, London's mayor, issued a call to "let the true spirit of London shine through," in the hope that the carnival would help heal wounds left by the riots. Notting Hill carnival gets off to a peaceful start 2011-08-28T20:18:26Z

Locked in a boxcar with few options, save for waiting to become dinner to a community of non-zombie cannibals, Rick and company's situation was as bleak a cliffhanger as the show has ever done. 'Walking Dead' premiere finds little sanctuary against despair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Its view of humanity was often bleak: Many characters are often outcasts, or unstable, or lost, and the horrors that shadow them are the results of vice or misfortune. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Sharp snaps of snare drum punctuate a gradual increase in forcefulness to a bleak, expansive landscape of solemn brasses and a droning in the strings, which melts into an almost Tchaikovskian Romantic sweep. Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Having spent the small government payroll loan she received last year on staff salaries — and now being forced to give up her own apartment — Sokoloff faces bleaker days still. Desperate for cash, strapped arts venues wait out delays in federal covid relief 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

That includes "Veep," a foul-mouthed but beloved adult comedy with an honest if not depressingly bleak outlook on the corruption and insincerity of American politics. How 9/11 helped define this generation’s new brand of patriotism 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

It looked bleak from the outset on Friday. Bloc 2012: making music out of chaos 2012-07-09T16:48:00Z

There was nothing elegiac or bleak—sometimes I cringe when my stories are described as elegiac or bleak—and I quite liked the unkindness and ludicrousness of that encounter. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Manning also writes about how important these books were to the wounded, who had nothing else to get them through long, bleak hospital stays. 'When Books Went to War’ by Molly Guptill Manning 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Finally, a revelation in the last scene forces the audience to reconsider everything that has come before, in a bleak light that seems at odds with the prevailingly comic tone. The curious incident of Leela in the nighttime: New play explores the OC through autistic eyes 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

We tend to be in the bleak midwinter – but in his hands, the season transcends itself: the thickest of frosts is no hazard. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z

On a Sunday afternoon in winter, in the bleak hinterland of an alpine Italian city, I glimpse an exotic tableau. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The film’s bleak tone and artsy look are pointedly atypical for a comic-book movie; its director, Todd Phillips, envisioned it as a gritty character study in the mold of “Taxi Driver.” ‘Joker’ Opens Strong at Box Office, Despite Controversy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Only in this version, the damage is not angel-inspired fantasy, and the bleak reality remains, making it difficult to look at any bit of carefully rendered "charm" quite the same way again. Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

This young poet, who was born in Lincoln, Neb., in 1970 — he got his B.A. from Harvard and his M.F.A. from Brown — moves easily from humor to bleaker, more complex material. Books of The Times: ?The Grey Album? by Kevin Young 2012-03-15T21:50:21Z

“I had a good laugh in the bleakest place on earth: LAX.” Style Invitational Week 1461: It’s the eponymy, stupid 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

This arc is familiar from Orlandersmith’s earlier solo pieces, “Beauty’s Daughter,” “Monster” and “Gimmick,” all about young black women determined to rise above bleak circumstances, who find salvation in art. 'Forever,' a harrowing memoir with no Hollywood ending 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

You may be surprised at how sweet this movie is and also, in retrospect, startled by how bleak its vision turns out to be. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

A window in the upper right corner affords a distant view of the Crucifixion in a bleak landscape rendered in almost microscopic detail. Getting to Know Bartholomeus Spranger at the Met 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

I Know Where I'm Going, from 2008, for instance, envisages a bleak future. Artist of the week 125: Ben Rivers 2011-02-10T15:01:14Z

It's a bleak and darkly comic play, which shocked its original audiences and still has the power to surprise and move us today. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z

Britain was falling apart, but in that very bleak time people were carving these incredible identities for themselves, and some magical subcultures were created. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z

High crime rates, heavy drug trafficking, corruption and government incompetence add to the bleak picture. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Judy” tries hard to inject brightness and pleasure into this bleak picture as this lost, luminous woman grabs onto one last chance, one more man. ‘Judy’ Review: The Singer (Disaster, Legend) at Rainbow’s End 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

It was that little glimmer of hope that so many of us watching this bleakest of shows had been hoping for. The Leftovers season finale: how much more gloom and grief can we take? 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

To make such a blistering, unsentimental and tough film that wasn't too bleak, out of such unlikely material is some achievement. The best film of 2012: readers' choice 2012-12-21T09:53:57Z

Where are you off to, once the Great Confinement relaxes its bleak grip? The 15th-Century Wool Worker’s Son Who Made Books for Princes and Popes 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Anderson: "No matter how bleak the atmosphere, it will always be pop." Leading the field 2010-05-21T23:02:00Z

After the screening, guests made their way to Harlow, a nearby restaurant, and more than a few admitted to being floored by the bleak ending. Scene City: Woody Allen Skips His Film’s Premiere Party 2013-07-24T17:46:32Z

With the closing of a huge Hudson’s Bay department store in March, the intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets has felt bleak. Toronto Steps Into Summer 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

His partner died when he was in his late 30s and this pitched him into what he describes as “the bleakest period of my life”. ‘It hits you over the head’: can I survive my midlife crisis? 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a welcome reminder that even when things are bleak, escape is still possible. The 18 Best TV Shows for Vicarious Travel Thrills 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

An adaptation of his novel “The Man in the High Castle” rolls along on Amazon, while the bleak cityscape of “Blade Runner 2049” arrived in theaters in October. What’s on TV Friday: David Letterman’s New Show and a Tribute to Tony Bennett 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Strawberry Theater Workshop's sharp production of the spooky play "The Bells," by Theresa Rebeck, plunks us into a bleak terrain that lures, tests and can easily crush anyone who dares explore it. 'The Bells' at Strawshop: haunting landscape, haunting secret 2012-02-03T00:18:04Z

One bleaker story in the collection follows the trials of an astronaut stranded miles above Earth. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘In the Dark’ and ‘Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Her bleak, scathingly humorous short stories, shot through with moments of violence and grace, have become a kind of template for the form. University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

These songs are bleak, black stories but told in an entertaining and melodic fashion. Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks 2013-05-08T06:30:00Z

It’s a question the entire novel grows around with fairly bleak expectations. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Sadly, these employees who wear dark, fencing-style masks live a bleak existence and are presumably as exploited and option-less as the contestants they govern. Netflix execs and "Squid Game" VIPs are playing from the same out-of-touch handbook 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

He faces deteriorating health, increasingly frightening lapses of memory, loneliness and the prospect of a bleak, empty future. Books of The Times: Detective Meets His End, Sort Of 2011-03-27T22:37:55Z

My mind flashed to a bleak paparazzi photo of Houston just before she died, out at some party, looking dazed, her bare legs flecked with something that bloggers speculated was vomit. Sparkle: Whitney Houston's Last Picture Show and Jordin Sparks' First 2012-08-16T16:17:09Z

She starts in Greece and soon discovers how bleak things are – unemployment, food handouts, scavenging in Athens. TV highlights 26/06/2012 2012-06-25T18:59:01Z

In Merwyn, “a gray, bleak village” of lost souls, he finds a wife who thought she was a war widow and her veteran husband, who feels he might as well be dead. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Some returned home to a bleak future; one was reduced to sweeping streets, using his Olympic jacket for warmth. Review: ‘Olympic Pride, American Prejudice’ Recalls Black Athletes in 1936 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

So the desert was the same kind of bleak isolation for these boys as Birmingham was for Black Sabbath and rainy, dark Seattle was for Nirvana. Kyuss: Kings of the stoner age 2011-03-25T10:00:04Z

People who had been dead for years came back to life, returning to a small Alpine town situated next to a vast dam, which seemed to serve as a bleak concrete metaphor for eternity. Rewind TV: The Returned; Confessions of an Alien Abductee; The Fall; Dates; Agnetha: Abba and After – review 2013-06-15T17:00:05Z

The Cannes Film Festival practically put itself on suicide watch in 2008 by opening with the bleak plague drama "Blindness." Sundance Day One: Fest jumps right in with 4 films 2013-01-17T17:16:04Z

The same dark nihilistic spirit that expresses itself in his most offensive material also allows him to offer some unpalatable but fascinating insights about the bleaker side of our everyday existence. This week's new comedy 2011-03-19T00:06:49Z

And by the time we return to the League story in 2009, it's a much bleaker cultural landscape still. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

It brings to mind some of the films adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for his bleak view of a violent U.S. Cormac McCarthy keeps moviegoers guessing in 'The Counselor' 2013-10-23T22:33:23Z

I followed the Cannes guide, Karin Osmuk, into the Fort Royal museum and even deeper into the bleak cell of the unknown inmate. What’s it like to film a TV travel show? I joined the crew of “Travels With Darley” to find out. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The show is bleak and elegant, with the stylish cinematography and brutal violence we all expect from cable dramas, though luckily with a brain and central moral questions. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Watch if you like gory, bleak foreign murder mysteries. What You Should Watch if You Have Kids or Miss ‘Downton Abbey’ 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

This answer — delivered with the measured confidence of a writer who has spent her career contemplating how we remember women’s lives — is bleak but honest. The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

We see it in the surrounding industrial milieu, not particularly bleak but removed from the life of the city, despite the up-to-date office interior; this mode of capitalism is obsolete. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

“His European and Jewish heritage inform his powerful, sometimes bleak but never pessimistic perspective,” the Capote citation read. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Part of Make Music Winter, Mr. Herbert’s “Winterreise” — or “Winterize,” as the organizers called it — found a bleak setting that seemed conjured out of Wilhelm Müller’s despondent poems. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z

Free Market Capitalism defeated Soviet Communism in the bleak mountains of Afghanistan. Aundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Three 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

In other words, once you factor in the cost of tickets that no one wants, the picture is not so bleak. Premium rail product? That's the early morning smell of a stranger's armpit 2013-01-06T00:08:11Z

Del races Pete on the fair circuit, but also hauls him long distances to bleak, makeshift tracks where the horses are separated from onlookers by a length of rope. Review: In ‘Lean on Pete,’ a Boy’s Survival in the Other America 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

The director, 52, from Nebraska, made his 2011 hit The Descendants, starring George Clooney, following the critical success of the bleak comedies Sideways and Election. Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks 2013-05-25T23:06:17Z

The postoperative prognosis was bleak, but a then-experimental drug therapy has lent her time. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Nesbø, who rose to fame with his bleak thrillers about a detective named Harry Hole, also said that he will put his own twist on the tragic play. Jo Nesbo To Write ‘Crime Noir’ Version of Macbeth 2014-01-14T13:26:13Z

Over that bleak winter month, creeping into our one-year anniversary of quarantine, the film became the latest must-stream content. Britney Spears' plight and the outrage of millennial women who've had enough 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

The future of the current program - a 25 percent refundable tax credit - looks bleak. Film incentive proposal gets into NC House budget 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Britain experiencing a butler boom Topics: , , economy, the rich, Jobs, butlers, , , LONDON, UK — Amid an otherwise bleak landscape, Britain’s economy is showing one unexpected bright spot: The job market for butlers is booming. By Jeeves! Britain experiencing a butler boom 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z

In a bleak period, the work of the archivist assumes exceptional poignancy. The Record Keepers’ Rave 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Courtney Summers is also the author of a zombie novel, “This Is Not a Test,” that has stuck with me for years because of its beautiful, bleak narration. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

Fast, funny, furious and terrifying, Churchill's bleak vision was given a remarkable premiere by Stephen Daldry. Theatre picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

It is sardonic and playful, bleak but parodic, disturbing and deeply moving. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

In an article in the Styles section this weekend, my colleague Alex Williams searches for the bright side in what many of us see as a bleak family tableau — and he actually finds some. Motherlode: Families at (Parallel) Play 2011-04-29T20:53:19Z

If I see a movie that is unapologetically bleak about the knowability of a person, then I feel less alone. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

I get a lot of flack about the book being depressing and very bleak. No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Benjamin wears a red hoodie as he wanders around his bleak French neighborhood. A fairy tale with a real-life grit 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The characters in the film shine at the expense of highlighting a bleaker story, one that’s perhaps more horrifying than Bulger’s. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

It was a bleak portrait of a soldier held in deplorable conditions by enemy forces. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Rodgers is no longer poor, but he’s still bohemian, ready to work with any young band trying to escape a bleak economy by creating an alternate reality of all-night partying. Nile Rodgers — defender of disco 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ishiguro said the story is about mortality and "how people cope with their fate," but isn't meant to be bleak. Keira Knightley due at London Film Festival opener 2010-10-13T15:00:00Z

And the short films that follow are equally bleak. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

The focus on bleak lives, and the insistence on pushing the characters to their breaking point, would seem to situate “Tyrannosaur” in a tradition of British kitchen-sink realism that has often tipped into miserablism. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z

“The alternative is just too bleak to consider,” he said. ArtsBeat: New Zealand Rallies for ?The Hobbit? 2010-10-25T12:48:00Z

Actually, what Mr. Gilligan wants before the series ends, is even more bleak: to remove all vestiges of likability from Walter White, to complete a transformation unlike anything a television series has ever tried. Television: Shattering All Vestiges of Innocence 2011-07-15T12:00:00Z

In one bleak but hilarious scene, a young waitress is baffled as four lonely businessmen sitting at separate tables break down into tears one after the other. Depardieu charms as anti-hero in French tragi-comedy 2010-02-19T22:53:00Z

A less bleak one: Don and Ted leave together. The Mad Men mid-season finale: so what happens next? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

I've chosen a seasonal lyric, "Autumn", for this week, a week frequently weather-filled in the UK as it marks the transition from a rich autumnal month to a bleaker more wintry one. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z

A prickly buddy comedy unfolds between Joel and his unruly charge, and Pascal’s laconic gunslinger appeal translates well to this bleaker universe. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Admitting he "has painted a bit of a bleak picture" of the record-making process, Nick Lowe-style, the musician attributes the sonic returns of "The Convincer" to the painstaking experience of its original production. "The Convincer" still holds up for Nick Lowe's toughest critic — himself 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Over the past few years, Weir, a London-based journalist, found herself “seeking comfort from politically dark winters and the relentlessly bleak news cycle.” When it comes to happiness, Americans are doing it wrong. These books are here to help. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

In past documentaries, Mr. Segre often focused on the harsh, bleak existence of illegal immigrants to Italy. Film: China and Italy Meet in a Seaside Bar 2011-01-19T16:58:51Z

This is not a bleak book, though it has its moments. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-30T09:00:01Z

In its content, “The Mother of All Questions” reinforces Solnit’s gift of hope; in the circumstances of its publication in this bleak year, it obliges readers to put it to use. Rebecca Solnit tries to answer 'The Mother of All Questions' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

But the unfortunate reality is bleak, with low wages, long hours and high stress levels. Social Q?s: When Bakers Go Bad ? Social Q?s 2011-09-29T19:05:50Z

However the report, to be released on Wednesday, is not as bleak as many feared. Hundreds of churches at risk, English Heritage survey finds 2010-06-27T15:21:00Z

Taylor has written a bleak book with flashes of beauty, circling a hothouse of young people on the brink of transplantation into the harsh outside world. For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

Their lives are simple, austere, even bleak, while their relations with one another are sensitive and complex, bound together by need and dependency and, in the case of Betty and Harry, desire. Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany – review 2013-06-12T03:53:35Z

His collaborations with the Coen brothers have included the snowy, expansive visuals for “Fargo,” the bleak, modern western feel of “No Country for Old Men” and the period gritty western feel of “True Grit.” The Bright (and Dark) Side of Roger Deakins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The latest entry in the terrible workplace genre, “Corporate” is as nihilistic as they come, so bleak it often becomes absurd and even supernatural. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The Guardian described the original series, which aired in 2016 on Sky in the UK, as “craftily observed, beautifully performed, as well as typically, gloriously, boldly bleak”. Lena Dunham to remake Julia Davis sitcom Camping for HBO 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Yes, he has this hyper-realist degree of detail, but there’s nothing sentimental. These are tough works — the bleak winter landscapes, old age, death. There’s just this aching loneliness.” All the Andrew Wyeth No One Has Seen 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

These stories, in any case, are irresistible, delivering a portrait of contemporary relationships that, although bleak, is shot through with veins of real connection. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

That’s a pretty bleak outlook for children under 10 to contend with, she admits. Maggie Smith and the poem that captured the mood of a tumultuous year 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In retrospect, the film seems all the more brilliant, bleak, and terrifyingly on the mark about the dangers of nuclear weaponry. Sunday Reading: On the Precipice 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Atkinson's view of contemporary society can be bleak, but she has an amazing eye for kids, dogs and human fallibility. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z

And while record-breaking prices have been made during the bleakest of economic times, nobody knows what will happen this season. Art: A Bouquet of Offerings to Test Uncertain Waters 2011-10-30T04:00:12Z

It paints a bleak picture of life: “Now we are victorious, we’ve become our slaves/A land of hope and glory, building graveyards for the brave.” New this week: ‘Cinderella,’ Imagine Dragons, Selena Gomez 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The result is a standout, lyrically bleak novel whose teasing title, “The Dark Remains,” can be taken to mean a few things — none of them good. Review | Ian Rankin took on the challenge of finishing his mentor’s book. The result is a darkly beautiful novel. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

James says the bleak line "I cried for you on the kitchen floor" from You Know I'm No Good was inspired by one of many splits with her then boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil. Amy Winehouse: songs in the key of life 2012-07-22T17:00:12Z

These entries join recent standouts like Cartoon Saloon’s Oscar nominated “The Breadwinner” and the movingly bleak French title “The Swallows of Kabul.” Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Everyday Is Like Sunday becomes a bleak celebration. Morrissey – review 2012-07-29T17:30:01Z

As a sitcom about dysfunctional televangelists, it is necessarily satirical, but at the same time it is crude and bleak and – sometimes – surprisingly big-hearted. Forget Friends! The 25 greatest overlooked sitcoms – from Lovesick to Younger 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

During the bleak hangover that followed, the 40-year-old Swedish actor thought he might have torpedoed a career that had just seen him get the part of Tarzan in this summer’s blockbuster. Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I still wake up shivering in the foetal position’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

You’d never guess that Kasdan used the same cinematographer, Michael McDonough, who made the chilly palette of Winter’s Bone so effectively bleak.  has the look and tempo of a commercial for an arthritis medication. Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion: The Big Chill for the AARP Set 2012-04-19T10:45:39Z

It’s a landscape that mirrors the bleak outlook of the people in Larkin’s verse. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z

It’s draped in an ominous, gray cloud of sonic energy, an overcast atmosphere that seemingly exemplifies Chicago at its bleakest. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The show — bleak, tragic, and disciplined — offers a no-frills, narrow-scoped approach to solving Wall's case. "Godzilla vs. Kong" and a Tina Turner doc highlight what's new on HBO Max in March 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

The film shows how unstoppably she fanned the “Bolero” flame, building it from bleak austerity to cruel delight. Review: Mariinsky Celebrates a Prima Ballerina 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The stories of Ms. Abramovic’s rough upbringing enliven the proceedings with their bleak humor, but much of the rest of the text is more impenetrable. Theater Review: ‘Life and Death of Marina Abramovic’ at Park Ave. Armory 2013-12-15T23:14:05Z

Her message is blunt and bleak: “Love was not enough in the end, not that kind of love.” ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

He unpacks 19th-century novels, paintings and monuments, as well as dozens of bleak photographs placed within the text in a manner that recalls the dreaminess of Sebald. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

I didn’t realize just how bleak the outcomes could be for childbearing women on screen until I got pregnant. When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

"Nobody's Smiling" weaves together bleak but thoughtful narratives of violence, drugs and street life — a stark difference from the uplifting spirit of "Glory." Grammys 2015: Common's' 'Nobody's Smiling' deserves rap album honor 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

No optimism there, just the bleakest sort of revelation, in which the very thing Jacobs has trusted, around which he has constructed his existence, is exposed as the most pernicious sort of lie. Faith and magic get a 'Revival' in new Stephen King novel 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Her apparent apathy toward school seems, in part, like the product of a bleak upbringing filled with poverty and street violence. Review: In ‘For Ahkeem,’ a Last Option for a Troubled Teenager 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Rebus is back," wrote Marcel Berlins in the Times with some relish, "only more so … Rankin and Rebus show themselves to be equally at ease in the bleak, unlovely parts of Scotland. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-11-09T22:55:10Z

This seems like a rather bleak perspective on marriage, but it should be read as a bleak view of a specific kind of marriage, and a critique of Lydgate’s romantic thinking. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Still, this “Chicago” is a mostly joyful take, as is nearly inevitable with full sets and costumes instead of the bleak aesthetic of the long-running Broadway revival. Blame Canada (or at Least Ontario) for a Wealth of Smart Revivals 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Set in a near future with ever more concentrated wealth for those at the top of the corporate pyramid and bewildering living costs and debt for everyone else, “The Transition” is bleak but prescient. 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In any case, nothing of note happened with uPlaya: the last post on its Facebook page reads, “It looks like the music industry is not as bleak as predicted,” and is dated January 30, 2012. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

He then adds, in a line as bleak as it is funny, “Don’tcha think it should cost less to be alive?” Review: ‘The Humans,’ a Family Thanksgiving for a Fearful Middle Class 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

I think it’s going to get very bleak before if there is a happy ending. Kit Harington Says 'Game of Thrones' Will Get 'Very Bleak' Before Any Happy Ending 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Even the dumping of a bucket of pink paint during the opening robbery — a sight gag in any other treatment — registers as bleak. Review: In ‘The Last Panthers,’ Old-School Crime Is Breaking Out Across Europe 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

For such patients the outlook is bleak and average survival is no more than 19 months. Prostate cancer ‘Rosetta stone’ paves way to targeted drugs 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

In the gamut of P&G meeting rooms, ranging from mountain-view to bleak, we sat in one in the death-zone category, a basement chamber that contained the ghostly echoes of dial-in codes gone wrong. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

If the bleak despair of Le Carré's conclusion has warmth, it's derived from the heat and velocity of its author's rage. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z

But Ms. Hynes, who chose these three plays for their overarching theme of emigration, ends the trilogy with the even bleaker “Famine,” from 1968. ‘DruidMurphy,’ Three Tom Murphy Plays at Lincoln Center 2012-06-29T00:55:05Z

“The end needed to be a little less bleak. We’re allergic to happy endings, but we’ll always go for the hopeful one.” The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

She later showed them living in a car, the parents sprawled in the front seat, the children looking out the back window at a bleak landscape. Mary Ellen Mark, photographer of outcasts and hidden beauty, dies at 75 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Their house was full of LPs and musicians and Roberts absorbed it all, and added several complex layers of lyrical ingenuity, a bleak wit, and a forensic interest in northern European folklore. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

As the suffering rolls out in this bleak, bleak episode, you can almost see the paper being crumpled up on the “Walt dies alone in hiding” idea and thrown into the wastebasket. Breaking Bad Watch: The Iceman Cometh 2013-09-23T04:26:21Z

Mr. Dylan excised the backbeat from “Can’t Wait” “Can’t Wait,” changing it into an even bleaker vigil with a tolling, descending piano line. Music Review: A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theatre 2012-09-05T11:35:10Z

Then the overture begins, somehow bleaker and more focused in this context. Stefan Herheim's Wagner revolution 2010-04-29T15:23:00Z

No matter: In this bleak moral universe, simply being born establishes guilt. ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Yet, while memorializing suffering, the museum wants even the bleakest artifacts to have a positive message. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

These are set off, as usual, by bleak open spaces, where you might find a sepulchral forest or graveyard. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ in London 2013-07-23T21:05:32Z

It's a sobering reminder of the bleak oppression of musicians in those cold war years and how, in this respect anyway, life has improved. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

The brutal, bleak series that has captured the hearts of a generation will come to a brutal, bleak end in November when The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 arrives in cinemas. In debt, out of luck: why Generation K fell in love with The Hunger Games 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

The film "The Wrestler" painted a very bleak picture of the wrestling world. Secrets of the professional wrestling world 2011-04-26T18:16:00Z

North of central Prague, on the Vltava’s left bank beyond Letná park, Holešovice was for a long time seen as a bleak district with little to offer locals, let alone visitors. 10 of the coolest neighbourhoods in Europe 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

There is something about the meadow that reaches deep; it is vital and still, nostalgic and bleak — like the memories of childhood and of dreams. At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages

This isn't just a heist film but an all-time classic noir: bleak, realistic and cynical. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Tower Heist 2011-11-03T13:01:07Z

Clayton’s goodbye conversation with Rachel was even more bleak, and she couldn’t stop crying. Analysis | ‘The Bachelor’ star was rejected by the winner for the first time in show history — and then things got worse 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

At a conference in Rome last week, Culture Minister Giancarlo Galan painted a bleak picture of the state of Italy’s arts. Outrage Over a Storied Roman Theater?s Future 2011-06-27T21:53:12Z

“The Americans” is a bleak show that ends each episode with heartbreak. “The Americans” Is Too Bleak, and That’s Why It’s Great 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s, these creepfests offered a far bleaker view of our future world than the robot sidekicks in “Star Wars” that would soon overtake the culture and the film industry. Do Studios Dream of Android Stars? 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

Shaver’s unofficial job spoke to the singer’s bleak condition. Billy Joe Shaver invented outlaw country music. Why is he still rambling around Texas in a van? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

But the show’s first season finale is down-to-earth and true to the series’s bleak, but cautiously optimistic ideas about heroism and guilt. ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 1 Finale: Doing Something Good 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

This might explain why a few of Vanessa’s lines seem more a bleak projection of what some men might imagine of her life. Sarah Baker Speaks for the Overweight on ‘Louie’ 2014-05-13T02:30:16Z

Advertisers using these networks often “blacklist” news providers in a crisis, specifying that they do not want their ads to appear next to bleak articles about illness or natural disasters. The coronavirus crisis is devastating the news industry. Many newspapers won’t survive it. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Even as he was making his name on the New York scene, he professed a bleak outlook. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

It's hard to imagine any of them being in the running for the Orange prize were they writing today unless they'd balanced out their humour with something bleak. Orange prize 'grimness' is not the fault of women novelists 2010-03-18T12:00:00Z

For Whitaker, however, the real picture is not as bleak as the film might make out. `Zulu,' violent portrait of S. Africa, ends Cannes 2013-05-26T17:15:13Z

Cash concludes with some original selections from Black Cadillac, the bleak album that appeared after her father's death, which she dedicates to her three daughters, one of whom has just released her first CD. Rosanne Cash 2010-07-28T21:30:00Z

His grand, bleak drama of a woman's and a nation's defining ordeal is nonetheless exhilarating for the beauty of its prose and the depths of its unsentimental compassion. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

It's also less satirical and acerbic than some of his previous television; not just a technology-obsessed sarcastic underwhelmist's bleak view of the future. TV review: Black Mirror; Penguins - Spy in the Huddle 2013-02-11T23:05:01Z

Holliger and the WDR players have real affection for the material, and for the fuller portrait it affords us of an artist too often described as unremittingly bleak in his outlook. A Musical Modernist’s New, Smiling Guise 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

In Fleabag, the bleakest and by far the best of these, the lead character’s sex life is an inefficient coping mechanism for past trauma. Let’s have more sex in the movies – but please can it be the fun type? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Here the twin themes of universal human loneliness and the souring of the American dream combine to bleak, funny and moving effect. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

Vague warnings become direct threats as someone stalks her through the bleak ghost town of the snowy Hamptons. Kim Kardashian slammed for filming "American Horror Story" during WGA strike 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The challenge for Oliver’s talented team of writers would be to make this bleak trend in U.S. correctional facilities amusing. 6 Things John Oliver Should Tackle Next 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Smith told me he’s hopeful that truth, through good journalism, will prevail, but he’s also able to imagine a bleak dystopian future. Perspective | Will truth win out? Rob Porter’s departure holds a key to effective journalism in the Trump era. 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Yet – surprise, surprise – there is a bleak fallout to this culture. Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

They debated moving the wedding to Sunday, but the weather prospects still looked bleak. Snowzilla delayed this couple’s wedding, but not their marriage 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Even in his late teenage years, when he was full of promise and had many loyal friends, Schubert wrote many bleak works, like the song “Erlkönig,” which became a mini-sensation in Vienna. At the Bard Music Festival, Concerts and Argument 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

The future looks bleak, but then suddenly they unexpectedly land a mysterious multi-million pound commission. This week's new theatre 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

New Yorker magazine's David Denby called the movie, "a bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking" and said it was "Mara's shot at stardom." Critics stamp their approval on "Dragon Tattoo" 2011-12-13T20:11:42Z

The result is a bleak and unsettling song cycle about pain and the healing process, both physical and emotional. Before Summer Music Tours, a Burst of New CDs From Texans 2013-05-12T01:55:16Z

The Swimmer is a bleak story told in a cunningly light-hearted tone: "The day was beautiful and it seemed to him that a long swim might enlarge and celebrate its beauty." The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

Have you responded to bleak posts from one of your children and been rebuffed? Motherlode Blog: When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help 2012-02-24T04:20:27Z

“It’s such a weird, wholesome story at a time when everything is so bleak,” Sergent said. A tattoo, a peculiar chair in Baltimore and the zany power of the Internet 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

One thing's for sure: the ending being as bleak as it is makes the book feel more distinctly Bachman: the pseudonym's books have a way with endings that stare into the darkness. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 19: Thinner 2013-04-16T17:27:36Z

He's an excellent singer and guitarist who writes bleak, well-observed and sad personal songs that are carefully balanced against witty, good‑humoured introductions. Sam Carter – review 2013-03-24T17:54:27Z

In a turn brimming with bluster and insouciance, Buckley delivers a convincing account of what Lin presents as American complicity in the bleak dashing of hopes for a Russia that will play fair and square. Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The album is a marvel of isolation and bleak solitude. Music Review: Thom Yorke of Radiohead Brings Atoms for Peace to Roseland 2010-04-06T22:10:00Z

For around 7,000 years it has looked the same — bleak, harsh and stunning. Lava lands add geologic ‘wow’ to Bend’s big attractions 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

"Almost Like Christmas" is as bleak as any of Heller's novels, but without the dark humor he would become famous for. Early Heller story to be published this month 2013-07-11T18:18:45Z

In “The Man I Love” pas de deux, she reveals sudden darknesses — those sharp, bleak quarter-twists of the body — that made it psychologically startling. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z

“Thammavongsa’s gift for the gently absurd means the stories never feel dour or predictable, even when their outcomes are by some measure bleak.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The Harry Bosch series started out bleak and, with the passing years, has only gotten bleaker. Review | Two loner detectives find each other in Michael Connelly’s darkly brilliant new novel 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Things look pretty bleak until Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog figure out a way to keep Dr. Dinkle permanently out of the picture. Super Diaper Baby is back in all his powder and glory 2011-07-23T01:23:32Z

The dialogue crackles with bleak jokes about the siblings’ misbehavior and rampant pathologies. Review: ‘Barbecue,’ an Intervention With Love, Insults and Whiskey 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

We did reach some kind of bleak, definitive moment. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z

For all its pain and longing, “You Will Not Die” is not bleak: It tracks a long arc toward joy. For Nakhane, Songs Can Be Painful and Dangerous. His New Album Is a Balm. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Now, with Labor day approaching, headlines like "Summer bummer" and "Summer of slump" are capturing Tinseltown's bleak mood. Hollywood's summer of monster movies makes audience yawn 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

All the young people we meet are trapped by forces larger than themselves; yet Mantel’s writing makes even the bleakest narrative propulsive and urgent. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Indeed, he refuses to sink into the bleak despair of so many of his fellow Hollywood liberals. Steven Spielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The accounts are delivered in face-to-face conversations, in emails or social media posts, and they are frequently bleak. Fathers and Sons, Reliving on Film the Pain of Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Last week, Jeffrey Wright and Hugh Laurie mostly performed in one room with only bleak lighting—and they did so in a subtle, moving way more expected from live theater than from TV. House Watch: Ending the Chase 2012-02-14T14:45:51Z

“The paradox of this film is that it is both unremittingly bleak and rigorously humane,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in November. DVD: Mitchell Leisen?s ?No Man of Her Own? and ?Bedevilled? on DVD 2012-04-08T03:13:01Z

A colorful Victorian, the house is wedged between new 1930s developments, which Rockwell rendered in a bleak grayscale. Behind the scenes of You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

But his message does not, perhaps, strike quite the conciliatory tone his record label – who find themselves flogging a collection of bleak, unflinching to people expecting another album of post-Winehouse retro-soul – might have hoped for. Plan B: Ill Manors – review 2012-07-19T14:29:01Z

It’s certain to be a bleak day of reckoning for serious fans of Jackson, who has been trailed, even in death, by accusations of unconscionable behavior. A Day of Reckoning for Michael Jackson with “Leaving Neverland” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

When you get bleak about things and think, Gosh, is there an end to this? U2, Preaching Defiance, Heads Back to Paris 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The specter of future generations hangs over all of these issues: the moral question of whether to bring children into such a bleak and foundering world. Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The results paint a bleak picture of gender diversity in the workplaces that give rise to one of our country’s key cultural products. Women reign on Emmy favorites, but few are involved in making them 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s really beautiful but also, in many parts of the country, extremely bleak and kind of scary.” How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Karam’s play is not alone in its bleak assessment of American life. The Decline of White, Middle-Aged America, Onstage 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t jiggle TV, it was juggle TV: a bleak look at the difficulty of balancing career and personal relationships. Television Review: ?Prime Suspect? and ?Charlie?s Angels? - TV Review 2011-09-21T22:59:11Z

In the late 70s, I was recording a TV drama at London Weekend's headquarters on the South Bank in the bleak midwinter. Letter: Jim Goddard gave me the coat off his back, writes Robin Ellis 2013-06-30T12:49:21Z

The opera's relative lack of popularity is due in part to the plot, which is unremittingly bleak, even by Verdian standards. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z

But frantic non-events and bleak sudden ends are unpopular at the box office, and junkies don’t make great heroes. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The new paintings didn’t continue the focused portraits or bleak Social Realist subjects of working class and immigrant strife that he had made before. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

I need to keep talking to her, to alleviate the bleak sense of isolation. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s Years and Years propelling us into a near-future nightmare at whiplash speed, or the painstaking drip of doom that infuses every scene of Chernobyl, current programming has been described as “peak bleak”. Farewell Jane the Virgin: the best possible antidote to TV's bleak streak 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Success stories such as Saltaire near Bradford, one of the country's biggest buildings which is now a world heritage site ranking beside Stonehenge, disguise a wider, much bleaker picture. Trouble at mill: recession brings renewed threat of bulldozers 2011-03-21T11:55:05Z

Kenny comes across as feisty and brash, with a wicked sense of humor that helps pull her through, and keeps "Sick" from being a massively bleak downer. Review: 'Sick' is a scary plunge into a tale of misdiagnosis and recovery 2011-04-15T00:33:49Z

It’s a bleak world that Blazkowicz wakes up to, filled with concentration camps and towering brutalist buildings where Deathshead and his countrymen conduct their experiments and build ever more powerful weapons. Review: Alternate-history Nazis cry ‘Wolfenstein’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

"As bleak and depressing as his fictional world could be at times, Cain portrayed his losers with great humanity, complexity and artistic integrity," wrote filmmaker William Preston Robertson, in a 2001 homage to Cain. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

"He portrays his country as bleak and dark, a complementary mood to his protagonist, Inspector Erlendur," said Doug Brewer of Tacoma. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z

This is tense and bleak, but instantly credible and a compelling watch. Playing with Daisy/Voices ? review 2011-02-24T17:59:16Z

“My God, the thought of being without him – the world would be too bleak!” says Reiner, and Brooks’ face falls a little, as if he is envisaging all too clearly a world without Reiner. 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

“The final defining characteristic of the network is painting a bleak vision of America with threats around every single corner and one solution,” he said. John Oliver on NRA TV: 'Just a vessel to sell America guns' 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Gusts of wind blew over the crowd both days, and bleak clouds hung overhead without ever drenching the crowd, making the 10-hour days a little more bearable. D.C.’s Landmark Music Festival: Mallapalooza it wasn’t 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

In both, and in the many dystopian novels of today, an apparently bleak world is re-imagined and lit up by children who understand clearly what is worth saving as they step from childhood to adulthood. Book Doctor: Why do teens like dystopian fiction so much? 2013-07-08T17:26:49Z

They've learned to fight, formed their friendships and slowly adjusted to life in the bleakest outpost of the kingdom. Game of Thrones recap: season four, episode nine – The Watchers on the Wall 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Horizon” is beautiful and brutal, uplifting and bleak, a story of the universal human condition set in some of the most distinctive places on earth. Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a strong pair of lead performances and a simple yet effective black-box set, Kafka’s bureaucratized dystopia shines through with a fresh lacquer of bleak humor. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

"They sing with a new confidence," Köhler said, making a comparison with the feeble, anxious sound of the choir he remembered from the bleak 1950s. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

For a brief, bleak period in the early 2000s, it was acceptable for straight men to punctuate gestures of perceived male-male intimacy with the assertion “no homo.” New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

It's tough to mix humour and violence but McDonagh really knows his way around a bleak joke, and he's more than comfortable with gallows humour. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-13T04:59:02Z

The English hit "Matilda," which opened Thursday at Shubert Theatre, is a witty musical adaptation of the beloved novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground. Review: Broadway's 'Matilda' is blast of nasty fun 2013-04-12T00:20:09Z

But the mood was bleak on the other side. How America’s Food System Could Change Under Biden 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The organization did say that “On the Ice,” a bleak drama about two seal-hunting Alaskans that screened at this year’s festival, would be one of the first. ArtsBeat: Sundance's Digital Move Seeks to Link Filmmakers and Audiences 2011-07-27T19:30:58Z

In "The Invisible Wall," Bernstein wrote about his bleak childhood in an English mill town, with Christians and Jews co-existing uneasily. Harry Bernstein, published at 96, dies at 101 2011-06-04T19:22:08Z

But too often the plot veers off into overwrought tangents that clash with the bleak realism of the story. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

With a mixture of pessimism, resignation and good humor, Mr. Soderbergh surveyed a landscape at once crowded and bleak, as filmmakers struggle to remain true to their vocations and find a home for their work. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z

In Brexity times, there is something particularly bleak about watching endless power plays among a handful of more or less corrupt entities. What happened when our TV critic watched 67 hours of Game of Thrones? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Fellowes may be channeling the grim of Victorian tragedy but enough of his signature flair and a few anachronistic touches make Belgravia's bleaker elements palatable. "Belgravia": Where "Downton Abbey" meets Dickens, except with a more dashing, less hungry orphan 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

But no aspect of the emotional distance and dissatisfaction wrought by the lure of social media and digital communication is as bleak as Turkle’s assessment of how our lack of conversation has impacted family life. How to Foster a Healthy Relationship Between Kids and Tech 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

It’s a bleak, “No Exit”-type coda that Ramis wisely refashioned into something like a Hollywood ending. The Tao of “Groundhog Day,” Onstage 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Laced through with sadness and music, his story is bleak but layered with tenderness. I Heart Peterborough – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T17:00:10Z

“There’s a lot of very bad news out there. Like there’s a lot of evidence to support that things are very, very bleak. And, in fact, mounting in that direction.” Natasha Lyonne: ‘There’s a fighter in me that wants to survive’ 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

Like Joyce and Hopper themselves, it's a bleak but charming scene. Explaining Exactly What Happened at the End of 'Stranger Things 2' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

But even though the numbers look bleak, not everything is dire at NBC. Several factors contribute to NBC’s low Olympic ratings 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

But they have what he called “the gift of anonymity,” while his bleakest moments have been photographed, chronicled and occasionally mocked. The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

Lokita has effectively become a prisoner while the more resourceful Tori continues to scramble in the outside world, a bleak situation that mirrors their respective immigration statuses. ‘Tori and Lokita’ Review: Precarious Lives in Exile 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

They were worried about rising temperatures and sea levels, but they didn’t think the future all bleak. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

She suffers from some of the symptoms researchers have found to trouble women in insecure jobs, including low morale and a bleak view of the future. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z

Similarly Paul Greengrass, who is taking his bleak film 22 July, about the Utøya massacre in Norway, to Venice, has also made the mainstream Bourne franchise films. Arthouse v blockbuster: will superheroes wipe out serious movies? 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

I know everyone is doing the best they can to get things moving, but with the holidays just around the corner, I think it'll be another rather bleak Christmas/Hanukkah. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Supply chain backup delaying holiday gifts 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Her critics complain that her outspokenness serves only to turn her into a talking point and fails to highlight the issues she is passionate about, while others decry her bleak focus on India's problems. Arundhati Roy 2011-03-08T00:05:13Z

Game of Thrones might be dark and frequently bleak but it is still a fantasy. Game of Thrones: season two, episode ten – Valar Morghulis 2012-06-04T13:19:00Z

‘At once dazzling and bleak’: Or You Could Kiss Me at the Cottesloe. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

At some point in 1605, Shakespeare acquired a copy of “The True Chronicle History of King Leir” and decided to use this earlier drama as the foundation for his bleakest, most searing tragedy. ‘The Year of Lear’ review: How politics shaped Shakespeare’s masterworks 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, the future of independent book selling looked bleak. Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

Ash’s voice and perspective are the main driving forces of the book, and her narration — especially of action and anger — is riveting in its competence and bleak desperation. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Created by journalist Charlie Brooker, the series is a bleak look at modern society, with three vignettes looking at how technology affects our lives. Black Mirror gets second series 2012-07-12T10:21:23Z

The album’s conclusion — “Brain Damage” seguing into “Eclipse,” both written by Waters — reads as bleak but feels like transcendence. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

‘Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe’ Beautifully stylish and excessively bleak, the new musical by Jonathan Christenson takes the sad facts of Poe’s life and makes them gloomier still. Theater Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

It crawls along, this one, just Mr. Smith’s desperate singing and a guitar offering a glimmer of hope though everything else looks bleak. Playlist: Gearing Up the Time Machine to Go Back to the ’90s 2014-02-07T22:18:24Z

Over the following decades, conditions varied from bleak to downright hellish. Sydney?s Convict Past 2010-12-31T19:55:08Z

It’s a situation that can’t end well, and it doesn’t under the blunt and forceful direction of William A. Wellman, who drives the film to its stunningly bleak conclusion in a thrifty 73 minutes. DVD: Dorothy Mackaill?s ?Safe in Hell? and Others on DVD 2012-01-08T01:38:11Z

Set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter, a nameless man and his young son wander through the cold, dark, and bleak world where everyone has turned into their basest selves. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

A good thing too, because the world Wainwright constructed around her – full of death, addiction and desperate poverty – was almost overwhelmingly, authentically bleak. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

They could be from Brooklyn, but happily also offer a bleak English charm. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z

Gray proceeds from the uncuddly premise that life is a bleak struggle from which, through philosophy, we seek diversion. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Many cemeteries are kindly recollected in the letters, and the accommodation in which he stayed was rough – a lighthouse, a sailing boat in bleak seas, dreary hotels. Summer readings: Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 2011-08-03T09:40:08Z

This is one of the finest films about the process of movie-making, a bleak, complex work that gives Travolta his most challenging role. Blow Out – review 2013-06-08T23:05:13Z

Undergoing Jabadi’s ham-fisted interrogation, Maziar manages to retain his sense of the absurd, as if realizing that Kafka wrote bleak black comedy about humankind’s awful unfairness. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The movie is intentionally quiet and bleak, with Autumn, its unwilling protagonist, spoken to far more than she speaks. From "Plan B" to "Grandma," 5 abortion road trip movies that reflect our frustrating reality 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

John, for all his personal blinders, has a clear and bleak view of the future. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

That sad process remains a two-headed mystery—bleak and unapproachable in fact; infinitely intriguing as it continues its path toward legend. The People v. O. J. Simpson Will Be with Us Forever 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Alban Berg’s bleak opera “Wozzeck” might not seem suited to the holiday season. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

He is greatly aided in this by a finely tuned sense of bleak humor. ‘The Fall of Princes’ review: the rise and fall of a Master of the Universe 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Yet a livelier drumbeat lightened all that bleak melodrama about a blighted era tumbling out of control. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z

Particularly given the success of the vaccine, those numbers are disheartening, and the number of young women who may die unnecessarily from a preventable illness is bleak . Motherlode Blog: Will Parents Still Turn Down an ‘Anti-Cancer Vaccine?’ 2013-06-19T19:14:32Z

It's shaping up as a powerful, even beautiful presentation of what is essentially a bleak album that carries an implicit message about today's world. Deltron 3030 is three minds, ten years and finally, a sequel 2013-10-17T13:52:00Z

He trades in sour whimsy, or bleak whimsy, or sometimes savage whimsy. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z

"Men, Women & Children," on the other hand, offers a far bleaker vision. Hollywood explores the virtues and evils of social media 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Last year’s bleak holidays made some people realize that it was time to chase their dreams. What we kept, what we ditched, what we cooked: How covid changed the holidays 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The show, which ran Off Broadway in 2008, is a modernist satire that is as bitingly bleak — its protagonist is named Mr. Zero — as it is brilliant. Theater to Stream: Kristina Wong Runs for Office and ‘Oedipus El Rey’ 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

"With that and warm weather and outdoor dining coming back, the prognosis looks much less bleak than it did eight months ago," Cecchini says. How will bars survive in a post-pandemic world? 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Despite its bleak portrayal of youth, and dialogue interrupted by screaming and tears, Sono insisted that it conveyed a message of hope. Japan film in Venice captures tsunami aftermath 2011-09-06T12:32:30Z

From domestic chaos, a show emerged that pits Miri’s wide-eyed innocence against bleaker themes. Did Daisy Haggard Create the Next ‘Fleabag’? Not Exactly 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Proud, hard, alone, with a cord of violence quaking below his impassivity, he lives in a small bleak house and lives a small bleak life. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The problem was so bleak that the Maui mayor asked airlines to limit the number of flights to the island. As a tourist, Maui reflects the tension of what it means to travel responsibly 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Egan can be such a piercingly astute storyteller that the exhilaration of reading her outweighs the bleak destinies she describes. Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z

He was in previews for “Scotland, PA,” a bleak and lusty musical comedy about the perils of ambition, which opens at the Pels on Oct. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

His – mostly – live-action short Silence Is Golden is another unsettling work that blends a jolly 70s aesthetic with some bleak social realism. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z

The home of Knausgaard's father is terrifying; bleak and swirling with past misdemeanours and regrets. Stuart Evers' top 10 homes in literature 2012-07-18T15:10:43Z

The first thing I handed in was a lot starker, I would say, and a lot bleaker. On ‘Promising Young Woman,’ consent, and a harrowing ending 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

It’s there to be glimpsed in the fields around Mandas, like “the bleak parts of Cornwall”; the “English countryside” near Gavoi; the “wide, almost Celtic landscape of hills” north of Cagliari. Lawrence of Sardinia 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

My wife and I are looking for a show to watch after we finish “The Night Of,” or some similarly bleak drama. What You Should Watch This Labor Day Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

It's a sensibility that arguably chimes with the bleak amorality of what's known as "road rap" – as opposed to grime, or UK hip-hop, all of which have distinct styles, musically and lyrically. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z

The foreign-language films up for Oscar contention are indeed bleak, dark and depressing. Foreign films navigate rough waters to reach Oscars 2011-02-27T00:26:51Z

We saw this in the 2015 film "The Witch" in which a 17th century family who is banished from their colonial community and lives at the edge of a bleak New England forest. How "Saint Maud" turns a feminist lens on body horror and gives its "final girl" autonomy 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

It was in that martyr city, among hollowed houses and numberless casualties, where Beckett’s subtractive vision began to crystallize into a new art of bleak hope. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to make these stories sound even bleaker than they are. Tove Ditlevsen’s Fiction Is Bleak and Claustrophobic — Mostly in a Good Way 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

It's complex and bleak and not at all the sort of thing you'd expect to be set to music. Is Stephen Sondheim the Shakespeare of musical theatre? | Michael Ball 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z

The bright red wildflowers were a sign of life in a bleak landscape. Honoring veterans has a special connection to World War I 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The trademark bleak worldview has given way to the relative, if wary, optimism of a line such as "God will guide us to our graves". Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang: The Wonder Show of the World | CD review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z

It’s probably quite a bleak album, depending on your perspective.” Boards of Canada Create Moody Sci-Fi on Tomorrow’s Harvest 2013-06-11T12:00:51Z

As the saga enters the 1930s, the animation and the archival footage shift to bright color, but the story grows more convoluted and bleak. Review: ‘Nuts!’ Reveals Doctor’s Secret to Success: Goat Testicle Transplants 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Rather, it provides an intriguing and bleak look at class warfare, British country style. Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy,’ Based on J. K. Rowling’s Novel, on HBO 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

We don't know what sort of monsters we're dealing with or how bleak humanity's situation is. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z

The picture is even bleaker factoring in this year's higher ticket prices, which mean attendance is running 5 percent below last year's. Downey dips, 'Sherlock' slips with $40M debut 2011-12-18T20:12:15Z

“He alternates between having a bleak view of humanity but gets inspired by a process that makes people so cynical. . . . Or maybe it’s just Rick Wilson is history’s greatest monster.” No campaign news, no problem. These strategists can always lend a quote. 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“More than fifty years after its release, ‘Dr. Strangelove’ seems all the more brilliant, bleak, and terrifyingly on the mark.” Sunday Reading: The Power of Political Satire 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

Here, “bleak high-risers” are replacing the old English countryside of meadows and lanes, and “greeds/And garbage are too thick-strewn/To be swept up now.” Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z

It's the bleakest song I know, and bleak is how I feel. Remembering Alex Chilton 2010-03-18T13:20:00Z

Channel 4 These fine short films showcasing new talent both present being young today as almost inescapably bleak. TV highlights: Digging For Britain 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z

A bleak character study, "Save the Tiger" casts Lemmon as Harry Stoner, an executive at a struggling Los Angeles apparel company. Director John Avildsen had hard-hitting films before 'Rocky' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

It's bleak and moody, but the execution is bracing. This week's new films 2011-02-19T00:05:41Z

His material has the landscape of a Tom Waits song, crusty and cynical, inspiring bleak laughter that sounds as if it might turn into a cough at any moment. Dave Attell Is Our Greatest Club Comic (Says the Writer He Made Fun Of) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Bates at breakfast is old-fashioned and unashamedly so, but it's also a welcome cocoon from all the dreich weather and bleak headlines. Radio head: Smooth Simon Bates 2011-01-05T08:00:01Z

Despite the cachet of Drew's alter ego Plan B, Ill Manors may have suffered from a perception that the film is not only gritty, but in fact bleak, harrowing or – yikes – grim. Prometheus still breathing rarefied air at the UK box-office summit 2012-06-13T09:00:07Z

I'll always remember how Dad's fancy eggs still tasted like luxury, even in the middle of some very bleak years. Family life 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

The Rockman canvas, an 8-by 24-foot bleak, futuristic image of the Brooklyn waterfront, imagines the toll of global warming as ocean water submerges the city and makes a ruin of its infrastructure. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

It is funny, atmospheric, unnerving and bleak, and perfectly judged. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z

"Gett," in moving and infuriating ways, exposes a very bleak corner of that world. In 'Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,' unhappy and unequal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

I can’t say it was bleak because, listen, we had a lot of girlfriends who were having a great time. It’s an It Girl! The Birth of ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

And instead of bleak, it's just grey and a bit damp. The weekend's TV: Spiral 2011-04-04T07:00:05Z

So, as the music skitters and scowls, you'll see images of birds swooping across dark clouds or apparitions roaming bleak industrial landscapes. Click to Download: iTunes festival, Red Bull Studios, Gazelle Twin 2011-07-06T15:30:00Z

White Arkitekter, from Sweden, ruefully notes that “’The Laboratory of the Future’ comes at a time when any imagined future looks bleak.” Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, given its subject, “Death Speaks” seems unremittingly bleak at first blush. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z

The city was an industrial grid of endless concrete blocks, with bleak soviet monuments and starless skies. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z

For Selby, the world is a bleak landscape of repressed emotion and extinguished hope. Last exit to romance: The strange alchemy of LGBTQ romance and the books that give us hope 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

It was the human condition as something bleak and lonely, often drunk, occcasionally redeemed by love and family. Bonnaroo: Stray Moments 2010-06-14T18:30:00Z

If that all sounds fairly bleak, well, it is. Coronavirus and Sex: Questions and Answers 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Those are values celebrated for allowing the British homefront to get through World War II and its bleak aftermath of rationing and making do. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Comfortably Mousetrapped 2012-01-26T14:30:40Z

“The thing about mycelia was, they stick together,” Mikael says, narrating his bleak boyhood to a social worker in — what else? — “waves.” In ‘Thrust,’ Talking Animals and Others Take Aim at Humanity’s Cruelty 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Not that the details match up in these characters’ anguished, faltering recollections of the bleak life they shared on the road, and its horrible and somehow inevitable conclusion. ‘Faith Healer’ Review: Michael Sheen Stirs the Embers in the Ashes 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

In the course of writing this book, even while staring down the bleak decades ahead, Wallace-Wells had a child. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The results are messy, brilliant, sobering, even bleak — the final scene is a gut punch delivered with a queasy smile — but Jordan Peele isn’t here just to play. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Bridges at Kraemer Place is one of three California shelters condemned for its bleak conditions in a new report from the ACLU. 'Filth, mold, abuse': report condemns state of California homeless shelters 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

Streeter, a journalist who worked for the Palm Beach Post, manages to find ample humor in the bleakest moments after her husband dies at 44. Perspective | After losing two loved ones to covid-19, I turned to books. Here are 15 titles that helped me cope. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Plucking at two fiddles, Wood gently eased into Albion, his bleak true story about discovering a suicide, now dissected with angry rap from Dizraeli. Chris Wood and Dizraeli ? review 2012-05-21T17:15:01Z

Many emotions vie for dominance among the young men living in limbo in “Kill Move Paradise,” the bleak and beautiful new drama by James Ijames at the National Black Theater in Harlem. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Their stories give his book a supply of wild anecdotes, although the overall biography is too bleak to be fun. Review: ‘Can I Go Now?,’ a Biography of the Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Yet though disappointment and loneliness guide its conversations, the movie isn’t bleak; it’s a touching and tender commentary on the need to be seen and the desire to be heard. Review: Seeking Connection in a Busy Town in ‘Autumn, Autumn’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

When dramatists go for gritty and bleak, they've got to make us believe it. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

And the ending, in which Benny’s nephew takes revenge, is Mr. Estrada’s bleak warning. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z

Potent sexual attraction can be a wonderful thing, but it can also bring out the absolute worst in the people involved, as the bleak, disturbing Latin American noir "A Wolf at the Door" convincingly demonstrates. 'A Wolf at the Door' a disturbing noir tale of obsession 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But I didn't want a completely bleak future. Richard McGuire's 'Here' takes on a larger life as graphic novel 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Palais de Justice” is projected here at massive scale, as domineering as the courthouse itself, and its view of gender and law is at once sensitive and bleak. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

But the film as a whole is too rich with incident and surprise to be bleak. ‘Ash Is Purest White’ Review: Love Smolders and Crime Pays in a Changing China 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The opening scene of Alexander Payne's bleak comedy shows Jack Nicholson as Schmidt, staring at the clock on the wall of his office, counting down the seconds until the beginning of his retirement. Clip joint: Timepieces 2012-07-18T12:31:00Z

That subject was her starting point, but when it proved too bleak, she moved in a new direction. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The issue isn’t that so many bleak and difficult things happen to them, it’s that only bleak and difficult things happen to them. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In a bleak documentary about the failings of America’s justice system, he’s the one guy you can truly root for. Dean Strang is Making a Murderer’s unlikely sex symbol 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

That song, bleak and relentless, is one of the mixtape’s best. Lil Yachty and 21 Savage: Atlanta Shows a Range of Hip-Hop 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The lonely neurotic at the center of Nathaniel Rich's comically bleak novel, "Odds Against Tomorrow," is nervous for a reason. Fears drive satirical 'Odds Against Tomorrow' 2013-05-08T17:26:12Z

When that bleak vision arises from characters interacting, it is sometimes beautifully crystallized. Review: When the ‘Light Shining’ on Revolution Falters 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

But, for all that, this is not a relentlessly bleak book. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

The atmosphere would surely be bleak enough to extinguish all hope in anyone present. Your next box set: Wallander 2012-06-21T15:31:35Z

In terms of sales and creativity, the past few years have been bleak for DC. The best comics of 2015: With Islamophobia rearing its ugly head, we need “Ms. Marvel” now more than ever 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

For starters, the police and all they survey in their bleak precinct are in desperate straits, even down to the paint flecking off the station house’s walls. AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ is a dark portrait in a dark city 2013-08-07T21:59:48Z

It's bleak, minimalist, and perfect for running screaming through the woods at midnight. Think the new "Unsolved Mysteries" is scary? The original will freak you out 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Sunday's The Village might have been ambitious, but it was so unrelentingly bleak that it eventually looped all the way round and became hilarious. Not even Noel Edmonds acknowledged that Easter was happening in TV land 2013-04-02T11:39:24Z

Part memoir and part scientific exploration, the book takes a hard look at what keeps people ticking when things look bleak. Gen X and the big self-help lie: In furious middle age, a “Life Reimagined” feels impossibly out of reach 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

That last is a hard criticism to make, because there’s pretty much no picture of Washington so bleak that people won’t accept it. TV Weekend: Veep 2012-04-20T15:31:24Z

And they don't stint on the stage gore or the sheer horror or the bleak humor therein. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z

Country singer Townes Van Zandt is a widely acknowledged master of misery, and his Flyin' Shoes retains its bleak power, even on Rumer's sweeter take. Rumer: Boys Don't Cry – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z

The idea for the new show is clever but bleak, a kind of Muppets After Dark, where there are no kids allowed and all your memories become content. Remember When the Muppets Were Subversive? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Close presides over her co-stars with gravitas and grace, in an understated performance that finds the humour in an otherwise bleak setup. Glenn Close: ‘You lose power if you get angry’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Fans of the show say it humanizes people that are often portrayed in bleak, derogatory caricatures. Netflix’s ‘Shtisel’ Is Binge-Worthy TV on a Strict Form of Judaism 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

A bleak but slyly funny story that explores the trauma of Sri Lanka’s civil wars. Biting Satires Dominate Booker Prize Shortlist 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The best drama series prize, to be announced later on Monday, pits medieval fantasy “Game of Thrones” against Hulu’s bleak “The Handmaid’s Tale,” with “The Americans” seen as the biggest potential spoiler. Emmy full of upsets. 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' dominates 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sadly, the bleak truth in their satirical coverage is almost too spot-on to find funny. Must-see morning clip: Fox says we need to accept mass murder 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

The world around us is bleak as it is, and let's be honest, we all found out during the pandemic just how monotonous cooking can be. An enamel butter warmer is the not-so-frivolous luxury I want for fall 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

It's hard to find a less consoling statement in art, beyond Samuel Beckett's bleakest work. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review 2013-05-05T15:50:50Z

The play is beautifully acted but surpassingly bleak, and spectators may find their own threshold for trauma tested more than once. Review: ‘A Little Life’ Is Quite a Lot 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

IN advance of the debt-ceiling debate in Congress this summer, morning-show pundits repeatedly compared the moment with 1979 both in terms of specific economic realities and the bleak, broader cultural mood. Viewing Like It?s 1979: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011-09-17T23:45:19Z

Their folk-rock can be breezy or bleak, and the band keeps getting better at making music a full partner with lyrics in telling the stories. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z

Whether Sun is performing a selection from Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti” or a Stefan Wolpe tune from 1930 that laments Hitler’s rising political fortunes, she musters a stylish way of singing about bleak times. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Her metaphorical prison in The Handmaid’s Tale is no less bleak, brutal or dehumanising: the fictitious Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, where environmental factors have reduced the global birthrate to almost zero. Samira Wiley: ‘Margaret Atwood responded with a tongue emoji’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

"That was a really powerful influence on my work," he says of the stripped-down, bleak record. William Gibson coaxes the future out of the present 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The gallows humor inherent in your stories seems to be a response to how bleak life is for people who live below the poverty line. Q. and A.: Joe R. Lansdale on ‘Hap and Leonard,’ Poverty and Writing a Gay Character 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Yet few novelists of recent memory have put our bleak isolation into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel, "Heft." 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z

It’s a bleak view, where values are situational at best, and more often, plainly self-serving. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: 'Go Ahead, Girls, Take a Break From Your Values' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

In his later years – struggling to care for his ailing wife and smarting from another, losing bout with the Hollywood studios – Raymond Chandler wrote a bleak epitaph for his career. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

Things look bleak until the group is rescued by an American whaling ship. Kids' books: Newbery Honors are no mere also-rans 2011-02-05T03:04:49Z

The song's unconventional structure and bleak narrative mean that, unlike most other protest and political songs, it was never suitable for radio. Your most inspiring political songs 2012-08-03T17:22:06Z

Hers is an often bleak portrait of rural life, where local businesses struggle while farms are sold, and every day requires a compromise with nature. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

At 68, Mr. Stewart isn’t bleak like Bob Dylan, cranky like Iggy Pop, bemused like Neil Young or avuncular like Paul Simon on their most recent albums. New Music: New Music by Rod Stewart (‘Time’) and the Uncluded 2013-05-06T21:55:51Z

It’s a brief, bleak collection of songs haunted by the desperate, self-destructive cycles of poverty and by thoughts of death and God. The Roots Touch on Poverty, Death and God at the Public 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The 11-episode series, starting on Thursday, looks as stark as the Modesto landscape it is set in: a bleak, bleached stretch of freeway overpasses, industrial smokestacks and strip malls. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is bleak to contemplate American dance without these most imaginative of creations. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

Many of his works are remarkably complex, like his bleak opera “Die Soldaten.” Music Review: Schumann and Zimmermann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-22T21:20:00Z

Her son, George, is along for the ride, having left his relatively new wife, Iris—who was raised in “bleak places” and is an outsider in this crested world—at home. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

In some respects, it’s merely a bleaker version of the reality that has plagued most of his adult life. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

It's bleak — the R&B tune as a work of stream-of-consciousness anxiety. For Jillian Banks, music is a major 'exhale' 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Now, as Jacob, the narrator of "Water for Elephants," Pattinson cuts yet another bleak figure. Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson 2011-04-21T19:22:00Z

Though it’s told from a child’s perspective and emanates Spielbergian sentiment, it’s ultimately one of his bleakest. Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adès’s bleak, raw take on Buñuel’s film is not exactly how I think of the story. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

He describes her book as “an attempt to understand the bleakest of the Nazi horrors by focusing on one ordinary man who, for a brief moment, found himself with unlimited power.” Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

I thought I had seen every tasteless exterior of this chain store, but the one they chose or recreated was bleak beyond any Beckett's Waiting for Godot stage set. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

But for the character, “Succession,” created by Jesse Armstrong, concluded on bleaker terms. ‘Succession’: Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s ‘Catastrophic’ Ending 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

In 1997 he produced A Song of Stone, a bleak political fable set in some unnamed land where civilisation has collapsed. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z

The novel’s final third carries some of the bleakest moments of the entire story, full of emotional self-immolation and death. In ‘Zo,’ Love Must Overcome Class Difference and Disaster 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

I knew the twist going into the film — it's not very twisty — but was still unprepared for how bleak this story of probable destruction at Christmastime was. Deck the halls with films of horror 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

A vast yellow smiley face adorns the bleak windowless wall of the former check-cashing plant, along with the words “Looks much better now!” Can the arts save Baltimore? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Mark Haskett Ron Rash's "bleak" collection of short stories set in Appalachia, Burning Bright, has won the American author the world's richest prize for the short story form, the Frank O'Connor award. Frank O'Connor award goes to Ron Rash 2010-09-20T11:37:00Z

Terry Rossio, a writer whose credits include “Shrek” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, playfully describes her as a “Pied Piper, leading all those ratty, bleak and violent screenplays in town over a cliff.” Lindsay Doran Examines What Makes Films Satisfying 2012-01-15T04:13:03Z

At the same time, the end of the old Fox and the Disneyfication of the entire movie mainstream are bleak. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Finally, Jax knows his mother murdered his wife, and now we get the enjoyable and bleak task of watching him wrestle over what to do with that information. 'Sons of Anarchy: Suits of Woe' recap: An inconvenient truth 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

In the film, there were already flats, but it was still mostly a bleak array of lock-ups. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The second movie written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, “It Comes at Night” focuses on two families who are forced to share a home in a bleak and desperate world. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘It Comes at Night’ 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

His black screenprints reduce Leonardo's subtle tones to a bleak tearjerker, a grief stain. Where are today's Leonardos? Toy Story 2010-06-23T09:38:00Z

Blue-grey water, which serves as a steady, bleak backdrop in the series, is an apt metaphor for the show's progression. "The Investigation" eschews salaciousness for a bleak yet poignant Scandi noir take on true crime 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

At the finale, Dear departs notably from Shelley – his version is even bleaker, yet it retains the sense of a terrible, thwarted feeling between the two deathly antagonists. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z

Sonically and lyrically, “We Got It From Here . . .” is informed by the present moment and by Tribe’s present moment — each, bleak. Andre 3000: The most ominous instrument in hip-hop 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

They are just two of the sad, lonely people inhabiting the bleak comedy, set primarily in a Chicago cemetery during an air show. Ellen Fairey, Playwright 2010-02-17T18:50:00Z

BTS was not only my connection to the culture I had resisted and ignored my entire life, but also became a light for me when everything else felt bleak. It's more than just a parasocial relationship: BTS and their impact on my mental health 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

Fox’s YA dystopian thriller is battling a bleak 19 percent average on Rotten Tomatoes, though audiences seem slightly more enthusiastic with a B CinemaScore. Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' Cruises Past... 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

But it does; this is a grim, bleak nightmare, where the only escape hinges on the conscious decision to help, value and share with one’s fellow man. ‘The Platform’ Review: An Accidentally Timely Political Allegory 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

It’s bleak and brash — “What made you stop believing in God?” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

At other times, the tidings are almost existentially bleak. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

In the face of this bleak situation, American policymakers concluded that the key to restoring the prewar European standard of living was restarting the German economy. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

In years past, Twitter and memes have laughed off Melania's bleak holiday decorating schemes as sad Soviet throwbacks. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

“In a toilet in the Burger Boss in a bleak town in a state swamped by its troubles.” The Scene of the Crime: A Jury Box? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

The toll of time — on his psyche, the landscape or both — can be discerned in the unremittingly bleak photographs that dominate his output in recent decades. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The couple first bonded over bleak World War I poetry. Trying to Turn a Castle Into a Cash Register 2013-05-24T21:19:52Z

But even in her bleakest moments, Ifemelu is astute about the new attitudes she encounters. Books of The Times: ‘Americanha,’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013-05-19T20:26:59Z

Though Frida feels “a sudden pleasure” when she shuts the door behind her, her fantasy life is short and bleak: She escapes as far as her office, where she sends emails. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Despite what you might believe about that festival, audiences there generally flock to lighter fare, and few seemed to appreciate that "My Joy" had a bleak, grotesque, near-perfect poetry in its soul. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z

Their tango was similarly sassy yet tired, meriting a bleak round of 8s from the judges. Dancing with the Stars Recap: J.R. Martinez Earns Two Perfect Scores 2011-11-08T14:15:00Z

More often than not, though, Doyle plumbs the bleaker aspects of literary life with startling precision and candor. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a bleak British film with nasty undercurrents. 'Will make you jump out of your skin': readers on the best underseen horror films 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

I'd want it to be now because it was pretty grey and bleak, so the internet and technology has given us a wealth of choice and I find that amazing. Meltdown is about 'something joyous' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But more often, “Rise” sees Stanton through Lou’s perspective, which ranges from bleak to condescending. Review: ‘Rise’ Is No ‘Friday Night Footlights’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

And that was the vibe of our writers’ room: bleak but chill. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Often it's about association – for example, the soundtrack to the film Snowtown makes me feel bleak and nervous, and is perfect for darker material. Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks 2013-05-08T06:30:00Z

The show was a comedy built around a bleak scenario – how a young woman who was kidnapped, abused, and held captive in an underground bunker, re-integrates into the world. The radical subversion of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's survival narrative 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

And the directors Daniel Fish and Jordan Fein found a primal darkness in the material that made a buoyant-seeming American classic look very bleak. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

It’s understandable to hope the fun-loving host continues providing a daily optimistic TV refuge in an increasingly bleak world. Extremely "Relatable": Even Ellen DeGeneres is entitled to her darkness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Yet his generous and productive interpretations of “Black Boy” and “Native Son” risked rewriting these texts rather than simply explaining them, because Ellison fundamentally refused Wright’s bleak view of black life and culture. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

With any other sitcom, a final chapter this bleak would seem cruel. ‘Veep’ Season 5 Finale: Hell to the Chief 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a Beckett-like image, at once funny and bleak, but “Zero Station” was thin and underdeveloped compared to the usual standards of this excellent duo. At River to River, Dancers Tackle Weighty Topics With a Smile 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Housing prices continue to tumble, people are walking away from their homes and the future seems as bleak as the shuttered storefronts along coastal Route 1. Romney vs. Gingrich is a fight for GOP's direction 2012-01-29T02:23:00Z

An updated version might be: "The future's mobile, the future's bleak." The success of smartphones comes at a price 2012-12-09T00:06:13Z

Her new book, “Funeral Diva,” a blend of poetry and memoir, arrives as a bleak and blunt response to Harris’s question, some 30 years later. ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

The Big Apple view from her bleak hotel room includes “free speech and lipstick in the moonlight” and she is as fascinated as any singer-songwriter with “dark rooms” and “secret lives.” Cat Power Shines on Sun 2012-09-07T12:00:25Z

The future is bleak, according to the award-winning author Chang-rae Lee, who transforms an abandoned Baltimore into B-mor, a high-walled labor colony, as the setting for his dystopian novel “On Such a Full Sea.” Spare Times for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:33:01Z

The Stabat Mater's severity offset its tremendous, if fleeting, glimpse of Paradise, while the blazing central section of the Te Deum, with its electrifying shouts of "sanctus", threw its bleak ending into disquieting relief. Prom 12: Academy of Santa Cecilia/Pappano – review 2013-07-21T13:08:06Z

And there are bleak moments in that book too, including Hemingway's middle-of-the-night cleaning efforts. Mariel Hemingway shares family's troubled history in two new books 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Together, these cities weathered an exceptionally bleak season of COVID-19 last year, when local rates of infection were some of the highest per capita in the world. Central Idaho is more than a ski destination. Here’s how to find world-class stargazing 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

“The Visiting Privilege,” by Joy Williams, is hard and bleak and somehow still bitingly funny, a kind of nihilistic long-form standup-comedy routine. The Books We Loved in 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was one of four Porter songs in a set whose oldest selection was the bleak 1905 Bert Williams classic, “Nobody,” delivered with a penetrating edge. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series at Allen Room 2013-02-03T22:53:42Z

Thus inspired, Marsh and Ware formed a band called the Future and wrote bleak instrumentals with such fabulously pretentious titles as Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z

A style called "chernukha," or blackness, became the vogue among many Russian filmmakers, who made dark and violent movies showing contemporary life as a bleak moral vacuum. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z

Weston shows a bleak Krasnow looking simultaneously outward and inward, one eye cast on the visible world and the other on his unseen inner being. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Alas—no spoilers!—the ending of the sketch is a bleak return to reality. Watch Key & Peele Skewer Police Racism in This New Sketch 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Thoughtful, brooding, clever, tense, bleak, character-based, but also scary as hell, there's something of the Scandi shows about The Fall then. The Fall; Skint – TV review 2013-05-13T21:01:01Z

In 2010, Prince recorded but then shelved a finished album, “Welcome 2 America,” which was full of bleak reflections on the state of the nation. Prince Made ‘Welcome 2 America’ in 2010. It Speaks to 2021. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Like much of Beckett’s work, “Watt” is funny and bleak and also uncompromising in its indifference to such readerly comforts as plot and accessibility. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

But what could have been a bluesy ballad is far bleaker. Justin Vernon Joins Swamp Dogg and Big Red Machine to Wrestle With Love and Death 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Like “Woman,” it features a lonely man, an appreciation of the bleak and beautiful regions of rural England and a feeling of timelessness that traps the story in a sort of literary amber. Susan Hill’s ‘The Mist in the Mirror’: the story of a man who disregards his senses 2014-01-29T23:13:05Z

And for Stephen, in what could have been very bleak circumstances, it offered gratification and new experiences. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

With bleak, heartbreaking images of isolation and desolation, either reading is possible. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Given the bleak prospects, preservationists say the fate of New York’s defining symbols — its cultural legacy — hangs in the balance until there is a better plan to care for them. As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The Met is presenting just three performances of this bleak yet stirring piece, starting May 2, in its return to the company after 15 years. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

While life in the camp is bleak and monotonous, refugees say Bangladesh offers relative freedom compared with the apartheid-like conditions they endured in northern Rakhine. In exile in Bangladesh, a bittersweet revival of Rohingya culture 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

What it shows in a bleak and desolate-seeming Tehran is the lives of people with barely enough money to survive being made more miserable by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, unemployment, drug addiction and wife abuse. Indonesia massacre, Iran sanctions impact infuse Venice film offerings 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

In these austere surroundings, designed by Jones’s longtime collaborator, Stewart Laing, the interactions of the opera’s emotionally wounded, invariably disappointed characters feel bleaker than ever. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

Pummelling and bleak, this testament to the spirit of survival still carries a grim force. The Hard Man ? review 2011-04-04T20:29:00Z

Despite this bleak climate of wall building and separation, across the country there are organisations and individuals with a far more inclusive, welcoming spirit. I am a married grandmother but I feel so lonely | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

The track is haunting in every sense of the word, and it’s precisely the juxtaposition of Melly’s soulful crooning with the bleak subject matter that makes his music so compelling. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

I do not remember hearing any warnings about the consequences of debt or the likelihood of a bleak post-graduation job market. My crushing student debt 2013-05-18T23:00:00Z

Early on, he was introverted, with a bleak vision of the world. Ducking and weaving 2010-07-30T23:09:00Z

The subtext is often, “Who would’ve known that Minneapolis was more than a bleak, scrappy tundra, even in the early sixties?” My father recorded young Bob Dylan: How the historic "Minneapolis Party Tape" was made 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

Parental warning: Dickinson’s take is a little bleak for youngsters. Cheers! Or not: ‘Scandalous’ 1st Christmas card up for sale 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a pungent book but a flat one, narrow in its emotional range, a bleak, meandering and muddy-soled mix of fairy tale and folk horror. Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’ Is Gloomy Folk Horror Set Long Ago 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Kelley's play is as appalling and bleak as it is funny. Mike Kelley: the nonconformist's whole life is here 2012-12-18T18:00:31Z

She lives on an abandoned commune in a bleak, drafty cabin. Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Even for a pessimistic guy like Woody, things sound pretty bleak. Woody Allen hates his Amazon deal so much: “I have regretted every second since I said OK” 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

And then a more honest, bleaker present that’s a much happier tale, because it’s about growth internally. Mitch Hurwitz digs deep on “Lady Dynamite” — and gives “Arrested Development” details: “We’re ready to go at a moment’s notice” 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

It's a remarkable turnaround from the bleak days of the first half of 2009. Rolling Ahead 2011-03-03T23:00:00Z

Recent seasons of “Engrenages,” or “Spiral,” a dark police drama, paint a bleak picture. France’s Obsession With Decline Is a Booming Industry 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Written down, it seems like a starkly bleak and morose thing to say; spoken aloud in the actual recording, it comes across as a reflective part of a warm, flowing, conversational whole. Thank God for Clive James 2012-06-24T19:00:09Z

Like a far bleaker version of the “Same Time, Next Year” rom-com, “Gruesome Playground Injuries” shuffles the calendar of a several-decades bond. In ‘Gruesome,’ love and dysfunction meet 2013-07-30T16:49:12Z

We meet Ptolemy in his squalid apartment, a cockroach-infested hoarder’s paradise where he attends to the bleak drone of cable news and struggles to piece together fragmentary memories of his Mississippi childhood. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Despite its bleak subject matter and slowly unfolding narrative, The Unloved, which is released on DVD tomorrow, garnered an audience of three million viewers when it was broadcast on Channel 4 last July. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

But their future is bleak; they met in a cancer support group. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z

But the talent for smutty punchlines almost does her a disservice, because what she really seems to be a master of is bleak, funny truth, and the dramatic set-up. Funny, messy and real: why Sharon Horgan is the most watchable woman on TV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Like “It Follows” and “Buzzard,” “Lost River” uses bleak Michigan scenery as the backdrop for a form of horror film. Review: In ‘Lost River,’ by Ryan Gosling, Surreal Scenes of Urban Decline 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It was something I wanted to give a try, and a lot of people weren't on my side, because it's a very challenging song, subject matter and it's super bleak. Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

These men, and the world to which they belong, face the bleakest of futures. Review: James Cicatko draws on dark history for 'Conversations with Messerschmidt' 2011-03-17T20:05:20Z

It may also be the thing to fill the current dearth of quality Scandi imports: bleak, subtitled drama without which no Guardian reader's weekend is complete. The Returned; Terror in The Skies; Operation Snow Tiger – TV review 2013-06-10T06:00:22Z

The movie, however, is a period piece, with country music and bleak visuals that suggest characters from "The Last Picture Show" could wander into frame at any moment. 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck unleashes his creepy side ? again 2010-07-01T20:41:00Z

Mr. Ripstein follows these sad souls down misty alleys, into bleak motels and cramped bedrooms. Review: Arturo Ripstein’s ‘Bleak Street,’ the Story of a Mexican Murder Case 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Maximalism can be read as an escape from a world and culture that at times seems bleak. I can't believe it's not clutter: maximalism hits our homes 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Push past the local color, though, as Mr. Linklater does, and this starts to look like what it was: a sordid, bleak tale about two lonely people drawn to each other like colliding planets. Movie Review: ?Bernie? With Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine 2012-04-26T21:53:23Z

Open a jar of this jam in gray, bleak February, and it will transport you. Canning Class: Strawberry jam that works

On other stages, the mood was also bleak, as it often has been under Py. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

A look at the depressing and surreal list of genocides by death toll is as bleak as it is enlightening. Art and the genocide memorial: How to make people engage with the horror, not look away 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Other art critics and writers criticized the postponement as cowardly and bleak, and several suggested that political considerations were in play. Citing Klan and lynching images, NGA and 3 other museums postpone major Guston exhibition 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

Not that we live in a world likely to make such bleak pictures. David Thomson on Jeff Bridges 2010-12-09T22:54:00Z

The bright, saturated signs transformed the bleak cityscape into a giddy fairground, with messages such as “Detain Trump,” “Deport Fascists,” and “SHAME” scrawled in marker and paint. Waking Up and No Longer Feeling Part of America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Equally impressive is their ability to sell their new album, Night Work, which might be their best to date, but is a substantially darker and bleaker record than either of its predecessors. Scissor Sisters 2010-06-23T20:30:00Z

The Matrix is one of the best-known VR dramatisations – and one of the bleakest. Spielberg's Ready Player One – in 2045, virtual reality is everyone's saviour 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But Knight unwisely and a bit heartlessly chooses to forgo that kindness to sink us into the bleak of it all, and does so during the darkest days of the year. There’s no comfort and joy in FX’s excruciating “Christmas Carol” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Stoppard said the situation in Belarus was bleak and there was more that the EU should be doing. Actors lobby David Cameron over plight of Belarusian political prisoners 2012-12-18T21:19:01Z

All of this is to say that there’s a ripe TV audience for “See,” the bleak and amply wacky futuristic drama from “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The situation for romance and stationery is not nearly so bleak as you may have heard. Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Their portrait of Paris is surprisingly beautiful, touched less by the artists’ painful circumstances than by a longing for respite from bleak lives. For Homeless Photographers, Pride of Place in Paris 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, it was another bleak year for music sales, as consumers turned to streaming in huge numbers. In Battle for Sales Leadership, Taylor Swift Triumphs 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

In 1980, Ms. de Leon photographed a bleak lot in the South Bronx bristling with pebbles and harboring a small building constructed by neighbors for community use. Mean Streets, Kind Cameras 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Its bleak, ominous atmosphere derives from its central character. Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z

It is not worth it to me to live a bleak life devoid of small pleasures so that one day I can make a single large purchase. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

The future of local newspapers just got bleaker. Perspective | The real reason Chris Matthews had to go 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

What saves this novel from being impossibly bleak is Ms. Thompson’s deadpan impatience with the very suffering she presents. Books of The Times: ‘The Humanity Project,’ Jean Thompson’s Latest Novel 2013-04-17T20:28:21Z

Feverish and funny, bleak and bone-chilling, “The Lighthouse” is a unique and darkly comic gothic nightmare. ‘The Lighthouse,’ with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

“It takes you from moments of bleak, stark reality of living in a Black, talented body into taking you to the party,” Awad said. For Keioui Keijaun Thomas, the Body Becomes a Vessel 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

“Overboard” is currently averaging a bleak 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Box Office: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Scores Second-Biggest Second... 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

It is so bleak, like a blizzard roaring over a frozen landscape, that I call it "antibiotic winter". Why antibiotics are making us all ill 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Tranter believes that the shows with the best chance of success will be those that offer hope in bleak times. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

With its bleak, yearning tone and defiantly cloudy color palette, “England Is Mine” has a pleasingly granular feel for its era and location. Review: ‘England Is Mine,’ a Portrait of Morrissey’s Early Years 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The image above, from the series "Wales, 1965," manages to be both bleak and supremely weird. Object Lesson: Two images, two photography roads taken 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The best — and also the most troubling — thing about “The Favourite” is its rigorously bleak assessment of human motivations and behavior. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

As the weeks went by, I felt increasingly bleak, and eventually I decided to end my life. We lived long and prospered! How Star Trek saved fans' lives 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the third book he will rise to the challenge of what is a fairly bleak and barren modern landscape culturally speaking. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

‘Horizon’ is beautiful and brutal, uplifting and bleak, a story of the universal human condition set in some of the most distinctive places on earth.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

In fact, its prognosis for popular success is so bleak that it’s something of a miracle it made it into print. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Is it conjuring the trenches of the first world war, a walk in the East Anglian countryside or just a bleak mood? Howard Hodgkin 2010-06-28T21:15:00Z

That bright days call for dark plays has been the driving ethos of the Potomac Theater Project, which brings a couple of thrillingly bleak plays to New York each summer. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Out of luck and money, the parents left their brood in the care of Rex’s parents in his bleak hometown, Welch, West Virginia. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Leaked clips appeared online, most of which were taken down shortly after they appeared, but the destiny of the show looked bleak. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome – are you glad to see Adama again? 2012-11-09T17:35:34Z

It’s not quite as bleak as “Justified” can sometimes get, but don’t let its sunny setting fool you: “Terriers” knows plenty about dark sides. Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The tone of all of them is not unremittingly bleak. In ‘Black Mirror,’ Sci-Fi That Feels Close to Home 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

If you ignore the bleak title of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, which Strictly Kosher draws heavily from, there was a vivid lesson in how a community lives. Strictly Kosher: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-07-08T23:07:25Z

As the election results come in, Nick recalls a scene that took place in one of the narrative's gaps, a "bleak little image of a parting on Oxford Street". The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-07-22T21:55:09Z

A September 2002 investigation by USA Today painted a bleak picture of the air marshal program, citing the resignation of 80 marshals as evidence of mass dissatisfaction. What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

JK Rowling likes to describe her new book as a comic tragedy, yet there are few laughs to pierce the blanket of gloom in this bleak, rather one-sided vision of life in modern England. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z

The bleak yet tender lyrics of “Tobacco Road” seem to draw a universally recognized portrait of a struggling, hard-luck town: John D. Loudermilk, Nashville songwriter of ‘Tobacco Road,’ dies at 82 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

“August: Osage County,” his bleak, brilliant comedy-drama about an imploding American family, collected most of the major theater awards, including the Tony for best play and the Pulitzer Prize. | 'Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?': Watch It, Martha: This George Is a Stealth Bomb 2010-12-13T03:01:00Z

Finding the future bleak, many listeners looked for comfort in the past — like he had done back in the hospital. Glass Animals ride the slow-burning ‘Heat Waves’ to Grammys 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

A world without the organizing principle of an ideal is a harder, bleaker one to inhabit. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

The album is often dark and angry, as on the bleak "Reagan," but in the end offers light. Killer Mike -- Morehouse man -- and his great 'R.A.P. Music' 2012-06-28T13:56:05Z

The audience was in an exuberant mood throughout, taking Newman’s bleak jaundice as jauntiness, laughing off the apostasy and loving those shuffles. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Together, these pieces exude a bleak mid-century naturalism, the writing spare and blunt. Rediscovering the lost writers of the Plains 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

No, Bet Hatikva begins with a B, as in “basically bleak and beige and blah blah blah.” Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

If the notion of an afterlife seems like sugaring the pill, bleak is the fate of the forgotten, vanishing into what Coco calls “the final death”. Death wears Mickey Mouse ears: how Disney is doing parents a favour 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

In the early 1990s panic began to set in among the prosperous Hong Kong British subjects that their future after Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997 might be bleak. Robert Kee obituary 2013-01-11T18:56:24Z

Anyone who has seen the original will know it hinges on a very British ugliness: bleak seaside towns and knotty class systems. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

"Winter was pretty bleak, but we set up to-go orders for food, beer and cider, which was primarily our revenue." How will bars survive in a post-pandemic world? 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Despite the depressing subject matter and the seemingly bleak outlook, for Reed, there is hope that the US can change the Citizens United decision. Dark Money: how a documentary became a political thriller 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

It's brutal in its particulars — with dreary streets, bleak houses and grim faces — yet the film is also marked with oddly funny, touching exchanges that waver between the ridiculous and the tragic. 'Aurora': quietly tracking a shadowy figure 2011-10-06T21:05:04Z

One of Kehlmann’s hallmarks as a novelist is the impish humor that he injects into bleak and absurd situations. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

In an industry that has become increasingly bleak, Chaney’s Dairy Barn is a success story born of desperation. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

Muses took them to a bleak stretch of highway in which she would drive at crazy speeds in the middle of the night, listening to Tom Jones’s Sometimes We Cry. From suburban housewife to porn star at 52: the emancipation of Morgana 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

“In the flashbacks to Samuel’s coming-of-age and then torturous captivity, Jennings renders a gritty and stripped-down portrait of the bleak family dynamics and social conditions that made him who he is.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

You don’t need translation to infer the crude genius of the interrogation techniques of Mr. Kanstantsinau’s Orlov — who slurps noodle soup while predicting the bleak futures of the women he’s questioning. Review: ‘Time of Women’ Portrays Activists Haunted by a K.G.B. Ordeal 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

As beautiful as it is bleak, it's the band's biggest hit to date - and their first in five years. The Veronicas' triumphant return from pop purgatory 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

And while in Wave love reveals itself by the bleak intensity of the pain of absolute, irreplaceable loss, it is in the end a love story, and a book about the importance of love. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review 2013-04-03T07:00:01Z

He describes it as "folk funk", but it's classic Thompson, packed with bleak stories of male failings, usually with a woman involved. Richard Thompson: Electric – review 2013-02-06T21:45:01Z

He took some getting used to: all those rhythmic sentences, as sagging and repetitious as telephone wires on a bleak Pennine road. Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z

That series, in turn, was adapted from the Danish “Forbrydelsen,” whose extreme popularity in Britain helped start the trend for fashionably bleak police procedurals. Television Review: ‘Broadchurch,’ a Dark Drama, Arrives on BBC America 2013-08-06T20:21:39Z

It's hard to say at this early stage whether it will fill that terrifying gaping void to its brim, but things certainly look promising, and weekends suddenly less bleak. The weekend's TV: Spiral 2011-04-04T07:00:05Z

Public information professionals say the picture isn’t quite as black and white, or as bleak, as reporters make it. Access denied: Reporters say federal officials, data increasingly off limits 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Last Of Us Sony A rogue species of fungus triggers the zombie apocalypse, leaving the world a bleak place of makeshift barricades, violent militia groups and incoherently howling former humans. The Last Of Us – review 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

Mungiu films it all with unsentimental harshness: his is as bleak a vision as they come. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

In the bleak moral universe of “Breaking Bad,” hair—on men, at least—seems patently ridiculous. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z

It currently holds a bleak 40 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ Cinemascore. Box Office: 'Fantastic Beasts 2' charms with $62 million debut 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s Low at its most abstract, and bleakest. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

So why do the doom-mongers insist the long-term outlook is bleak? Tough times ahead for US orchestras 2012-07-25T01:04:51Z

Gandolfini could play a certain kind of bleak comedy without effort: his screen persona was naturally funny, in an acid way. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z

It’s neither as bleak nor as interesting as that would indicate; it’s more like “Pulp Fiction” meets “It Happened One Night.” | 'Carmo, Hit the Road': Romance in Brazil?s Wild West 2010-10-15T00:49:00Z

However, it is the bleak and harrowing Sloth, which deals with the suicide of Todd's father when he was 10 years old, and the spiky spoken word sermonising of Pride that wield the most power. Buckcherry: Confessions – review 2013-02-14T22:15:01Z

Karjel’s Nordic-noir thriller refreshingly shifts the action from bleak Scandinavia to Djibouti, at the Horn of Africa, where spies and kidnappers converge and Swedish special forces confront the region’s jihadists. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

“I think the future for them is very bleak,” he said. Whatever happened to Breitbart? The insurgent star of the right is in a long, slow fade 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

In Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts 'we tend to be in the bleak midwinter – but in his hands the season transcends itself'. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z

Realised in clinical black and white, sculptures might suggest kitchen units, gym equipment or the buckled frames of old filing cabinets stumbled across in the bleak basement of some forgotten scientific institution. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Both shows function almost as reactionary works of criticism, “Merchant” critiquing Shakespeare’s text and “Black No More” critiquing the bleak satire of the novel. The Past Pushes Back in 2 Shows With Contemporary Blackness in Mind 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

It's as bleak as a blues lyric, with a hard-as-nails riff to match. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z

A week earlier at the National Theater, I had found myself watching two other exceptionally bleak young playwrights and vaguely thinking, “Oh, they’ll grow out of it.” Theater: In London, Young Playwrights, Including O?Neill 2010-07-30T22:49:00Z

And a sort of “greatest hits” anthology of scenes from “Macbeth” becomes a riveting portrait of a marriage drifting from fatal complicity to bleak, lonely estrangement. Theater Review: ‘Women of Will’ at the Gym at Judson Memorial Church 2013-02-03T23:10:30Z

Things were pretty bleak, personally and professionally, when we left the PM last time round – but then this is a Danish drama. 2013 TV preview: Borgen's back and Game of Thrones – but beware the graphic novel in new thriller Utopia 2012-12-30T19:50:01Z

The article traced the settlement’s origins to William Stives, a “mulatto” Revolutionary War veteran who had married a Native American woman and built a cabin in the “bleak and uninhabited” hills. Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The presence of books and flowers and handwritten notes is both heartwarming and a bit bleak, the reduction of human relationships to so many aging artifacts. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

It is an unbearably bleak film to watch. Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z

I’ve never made a film that is exclusively, relentlessly bleak and depressing. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

I listen to it on the Eurostar on my way to meet the trio in Paris, hopelessly staring out the window, having pseudo-deep thoughts as its soundscapes merge with bleak frozen wastelands outside. News From Nowhere puts Darkstar on the map 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z

One man in these stories seems to speak for many of this author’s characters when he thinks, “What was the use in telling her how bleak he felt when people found him funny?” ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Five years ago, the future of Harris tweed was bleak after decades of under-investment and poor sales. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z

Life felt too bleak, and I just wanted to write something that was just more raw and fun for me. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

The sun is shining, the music's playing, the boys are beautiful and it is difficult not to see Weeks' bleak outlook as prophetic. 'The Normal Heart' still a powerful call to action 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

She was introduced in The Dark Knight Returns, which imagines a bleak future in which an older Bruce Wayne comes out of retirement to protect Gotham City. Batman and His Many Robins 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The result is ingenious, frantically suspenseful and very, very bleak. The 10 best thrillers and mysteries of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Space Dogs” gives off the vibe of a B-grade educational children’s show — though one with the occasional vulgarity amid the bleak material. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Christmas was mulled misery, a bleak midwinter that nothing relieved. My grimly inappropriate boyfriend dumped me in the pub | Emma Beddington 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

It's looking bleak for our two boyish heroes, but then suddenly they escape, with a bit of help from the young wizard's special powers. TV review: Merlin; Good Cop; The Thick Of It 2012-10-14T13:00:00Z

And as bleak as the life described here is, “Minsk” is also steeped in an uncommon lyricism and in the hope that lies in the transformative powers of art. Theater Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Minsk, 2011’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-17T22:04:19Z

And, even in my comedy, I mostly talk about bleaker things. Sarah Silverman on Therapy and Her Dark New Movie 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Today, Hollywood’s fascination with de-ageing technology seems to affirm Brando’s bleak premonition, as it continues to insist older actors surrender to its obsession with youth. Over-40 actors still fighting the ageism that stymied Judy Garland 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

But even so, the concluding episode was a serious downer with an irredeemably bleak message: don't trust anyone, especially those closest to you. Rewind TV: Broadchurch; The Politician's Husband; Super Sunday; The Wright Way – review 2013-04-27T22:45:01Z

The driver was right: Jamaica Inn is a hellish establishment, standing bleak and alone in the rain and mist of the rough moorland. Pubs in books 2010-07-08T13:37:00Z

At 7 a.m. the view of the square from the Ambiotel’s breakfast room is bleak — no one seems to be in a big hurry to start selling. T Magazine: Omnivore's Delight 2012-03-15T17:45:58Z

And if not hope, the stark, bleak conclusion vividly depicted the barren aftermath of human interference in nature. Review: Alexi Kenney at Weill Recital Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

“Last night, I was in kind of a bleak mood, bored on the plane, and I thought, I need to work,” she said. J.K. Rowling Says ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Grew Out of World Events 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Drones and repetition have appeared throughout his work; so have dissonance and noise, along with lyrics that favor the bleak and macabre. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

Despite the crime, Woods makes Amy so sympathetic, her life so bleak and her options so limited that she becomes a paradigm for the entire valley, robbed of its youth and denied its future. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

The play, by turns trenchantly funny yet also bleak, has already been extended twice at the Court; this bicycle’s path, one feels, has only just begun. Theater Review: 'The Village Bike' Explores a Woman's Desire 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z

She even thinks that people still want to see a happy ending, “even with the acknowledgement that things can be bleak and difficult”. 'Once the couple gets together, the tension is lost': how sitcom romance died 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

Yet coursing under even the bleakest stories is a sense of optimism that tomorrow will be better, with some evidence to support it. Neither a bull nor a bear be 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

“There Were Bells” has bleaker lyrics, with birdsong and blue skies giving way to war and annihilation: “In the end they all went the same way,” it concludes. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The answer to why this is happening might be found in the second season of Aziz Ansari’s bleak look at modern love, Master Of None. 'Once the couple gets together, the tension is lost': how sitcom romance died 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

Film noir is, by definition, a dark genre, and there is a trio of new DVDs that, by bleak coincidence, all begin with the letter D. Kenneth Turan's noir-ish DVD picks: Darkness begins with a D 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

In fact, it's a master work in what it does because it's so perfectly bleak and compelling. The film that changed my life: David Leland 2011-08-13T23:05:38Z

In their bleaker moments, some of the people who are approaching their pandemic wall might turn to the same advice given to runners. ‘Oh, we’re still in this.’ The pandemic wall is here. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

But those bleak Hollywood prospects — some incalculable combination of racism and too-raw talent — kept Belafonte uniquely earthbound, doing a kind of cultural organizing. Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

It would be difficult to find a bleaker sentiment in the pop canon, even with the best efforts of the current generation of singers from the nouvelle scène française following in her footsteps. Sounds of France - day one: a history of French pop in 10 songs 2012-05-28T10:32:14Z

It takes comedy — unsettling, bleak, never neatly-resolved comedy — to begin the work of flipping that script. The cathartic laughs of "Bombshell": Why dark comedy speaks to us in the #MeToo era 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Yet the movie’s bleak and brutal tone works, as does the visitors’ bizarrely unstable behavior. Review: In ‘Caught,’ a Couple Lets the Wrong Ones In 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

I told Rakowski that I believed the groups she depended on exploited people’s desire for hope in the face of a bleak prognosis. They turn to Facebook and YouTube to find a cure for cancer — and get sucked into a world of bogus medicine 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

I had remembered "The Browning Version," directed here by Angus Jackson, as being bleaker than it is. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z

They not only remain bottom-feeders in the industry revenue pool, for some the future seems even more bleak as the pool grows more shallow. Future of Music 2012: A fight over Internet radio scraps 2012-11-14T04:21:00Z

The bare expanses of prairies, fenlands, wheatfields and marshes can seem boring, bleak, even frightening. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

But, as at the Met, landscapes dominate, and they’re odd, disturbed, eschatological images of erupting volcanoes, rising seas and a bleak world viewed from the mouth of a cave. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z

I saw, too, abandoned factories immersed in weeds and bleak prefabricated tenement housing with laundry fluttering from balconies, legacies of Communist urban planning. Fauna, Flora and Freighters in the Danube Delta 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

He quickly became a bright spot during an otherwise bleak time and his followers grew. Leslie Jordan parlays Instagram fame with new book and album 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

It was about as heartwarming and hopeful as the show has ever been, even with all the bleak jokes about how dead astronauts might derail their burger pitch. 'Mad Men' Watch: Small Steps and Great Leaps 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

The fallout of an affair, I learned, was horribly bleak. My Street life 2010-12-03T07:00:00Z

And her story must remain nested inside another that is sardonic and bleak. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

But even at the time, she was able to take control of the trauma by reframing the beats into a bleak joke, and when she recounts it today, Scovell gets to write the brutal punchline. How Nell Scovell survived male-dominated TV writers' rooms 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The mood shifts as Cassandre, the daughter of King Priam, tells of her premonitions of danger in a bleak soliloquy. Music Review | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra: At Carnegie, Gergiev Fosters Teamwork for Berlioz ?Troyens? 2010-03-12T00:22:00Z

His instinctive defense of the locals who led restricted lives under colonialism came into crushing conflict with his bleak view of their societies. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Hit radio and popularity-driven algorithmic playlists lingered on bleak, bummed-out sounds and scenarios, stringing together music that shares the feeling of being alienated, unprotected and besieged. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The picture presented by this show, which is being staged through Sunday in Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s small rehearsal hall, is bleak. The harsh road from East Africa to Israel in ‘The Promised Land’ 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

It's not hard to make out the influence of Bergman's hero, Strindberg, in this small-scale, bleak piece, and Tom Scutt's design catches something of Strindberg's seascapes, with a marine and glowering palette. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z

Sometimes you run across a sight that’s bleak or poignant — a desolate alley or suffering person. Review | GALA’s ‘Dancing in My Cockroach Killers’ is gritty and lyrical 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

In another early scene, for instance, Georgy returns to a bleak little apartment and packs up some food, studiously not talking to the unsmiling young woman sitting in another room. | 'My Joy': ?My Joy,? Directed by Sergei Loznitsa - Review 2011-09-29T23:47:55Z

What Hedges did with words, Sacco did in panels to great effect; his work is placed just when you need a break from page after page of bleak statistics. Author Chris Hedges: 'This is what corporate exploitation does to you' 2012-06-20T22:00:07Z

It is an angry album that presents a bleak view of America on the brink of a crisis. ArtsBeat Blog: Q. and A.: Everlast Sees the 'Ungrateful Living' All Around Him 2011-10-19T01:16:02Z

From such a bleak background, a new jazz blossomed – and Ibrahim was one of its most charismatically gifted messengers. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z

“The most arresting aspect of ‘The Road’ is just how fully the filmmakers have realized this bleak, blighted landscape of a modern society reduced to savagery,” Mr. Scott wrote in November. DVDs: Stealing From the Rich, Sherwood-Style, Over Years 2010-05-22T07:04:00Z

Mr. Hurt, who stars in the new movie “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” has practically made this bleak little play into an unlikely party piece brought out for festive show. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z

None of it seemed bleak or depressing at the time; it was just knockabout fun. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

“It’s inevitably bleaker and less colorful, but that is ultimately what Stephen King is doing — he’s saying adulthood is a bummer compared to childhood,” said Andy Muschietti, who directed both films. ‘It Chapter Two’ Is Out. Let’s Talk About Where That Clown Came From. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

"Zero Dark Thirty" is a bleak tale of uncertain patriotism, also meticulously researched but at times more than a little emotionally repugnant because of the questionable means it depicts in a righteous cause. Underdog 'Argo' continues on charmed Oscar path 2013-01-31T14:14:10Z

I think this story is about a woman trying to survive in this very bleak emotional landscape, and trying to be good, as glib as that may sound. Kiera Duffy on Becoming Bess, the Heroine of ‘Breaking the Waves’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Last year, Crow attended a tribunal hearing to rectify being placed in the wrong Employment Support Allowance group, an experience she calls "bleak and frightening". Artist-activist Liz Crow's 'bed-out' for disabled rights 2013-04-09T18:00:01Z

Even in the bleakest stories, there’s order and logic, perhaps even justice, if not in the realm of the story itself then at least in the artist’s imagination. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

Unable to find other work in the bleak 2020 job market, he gambled on finishing the book he had started writing on his lunch breaks. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Swedish singer Lykke Li and her band are all in black, arrayed on stage as if in a particularly bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

“Monuments” is surprisingly upbeat, given your rather bleak view of the world. Billy Corgan on Smashing Pumpkins: 'We're in a vacuum' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Much of this tale of crime and carnage along the Rio Grande, which won the best-picture Oscar and three others, is marked by a parched, bleak openness. 5 examples of cinematographer Deakins' best work 2012-11-08T21:23:14Z

This may suit the bleaker atmosphere of a nightmare world, but the drabber color diminishes the series’ crisp fairy-tale brightness. | 'Shrek Forever After': Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy Reunited 2010-05-20T22:28:00Z

“The vast majority of environmental news is incredibly bleak. It’s doom, it’s gloom, it’s statistics of how many species we’ve lost, and how terrible things are,” said Whitfield. For the first time in 6,000 years, a bison is born in the wild in the U.K. 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

What does come across is a bleak, wintry, poor, boundariless prison, and it doesn't make sense why anyone would want to go back to that once he had tasted the other side. Why can't Hollywood get Jews right? 2010-05-27T19:45:00Z

Some critics thought that his austere portrayals more authentically reflected Eastern European life than Isaac Bashevis Singer’s did, but Singer, with a leprechaunish charm that leavened his bleakest stories, appealed more to American audiences. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z

I want to be the witness to this, to provide evidence of their bleak condition. Motherlode Blog: The Parents Who Really Need Flex Time 2012-09-04T22:53:51Z

Giddy and bleak, the series proceeds as if exhausted by exploitation and misogyny, to the point of delirium. “Dietland,” Reviewed: A Bleak and Giddy Subversion of Beauty Myths 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Raitt arrived at the studio with what she calls “beginner’s mind,” a Zen term, and got to work recording Mr. Dylan’s bleak, bluesy “Million Miles.” Bonnie Raitt Has New Album, ?Slipstream,? and a Tour 2012-03-30T19:27:38Z

As with his famous painting of black crows swarming a cornfield, it is impossible to look at this bleak painting without seeing it as a premonition of his imminent suicide. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z

BTS was not only my connection to the culture I had resisted and ignored my entire life, but also became a light for me when everything else felt bleak. It's more than just a parasocial relationship: BTS and their impact on my mental health 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, a wry and wistful patchwork quilt of a theatrical experience, it captures Thomas's dark, bleak and often very funny vision of the world as he saw it. This week's new theatre 2011-08-05T23:09:29Z

Start off with where the center of his universe is located: Brownsville, one of the most bleak dungeons of poverty and violence America could dish out. Sparring with Mike Tyson 2012-08-09T04:48:00Z

Apparently learning nothing from the previous film in the series, "Rambo: Last Blood" is even more bleak and dour than its predecessor, making it a depressing slog from the first frame. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

And bleak though the prospects look, the reader approaches the last pages with some hope that the tale won't end in tragedy. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

It's a tale set in a bleak future and stars Guy Pearce as a man who gets his car stolen and is beyond determined to get it back. Opposites attract as the curtain rises on film festival 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

The first five tracks are him mainly on his own being introspective and bleak while the second half finds him in more upbeat mode. New band of the day – Robert Ellis (No 1,301) 2012-07-04T16:01:37Z

There were problems with the sound mix during the semi-acoustic mini-set, which still found a deep current on “Waking Light,” the new album’s most hopeful song, and “Blue Moon,” one of its bleakest. Beck Promotes ‘Morning Phase’ at the Hammerstein Ballroom 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

If they are often bleak, Shaughnessy’s poems are also very funny. In ‘The Octopus Museum,’ Brenda Shaughnessy Sees a Cephalopod Future 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Contrary to McKellen's and Nunn's fears, the future of acting doesn't look at all bleak to me but really rather exciting. Is Trevor Nunn right to worry about theatre stars of the future? 2012-11-27T13:06:00Z

Macmillan was PM; the cold war with the Soviet Union as dark and bleak as ever. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z

Are you ready for another bleak European police drama with a strong female lead, set in a nihilistic world where cynicism prevails, good men perish and evil triumphs? Spiral III: The Butcher of La Villette - episodes one and two 2011-04-02T21:50:00Z

In an interview with The Associated Press, Yousafzai talked about her love of cartoons as an escape, how she stays hopeful in a sometimes bleak world, and how she will mark Monday’s International Women’s Day. Malala takes her passions to the small screen with Apple 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Her protagonists have gained weight and substance, and appear to be isolated in bleak empty spaces that feel mythic or postapocalyptic. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Garden Street was bleak, save for the aural sunbeam of Aretha singing through the surface noise of well-worn vinyl, assuring us that God would take care of everything. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

They all specialise in grime and garage-referencing jacking industrial techno, which makes perfect sense on bleak January nights. Clubs picks of the week 2013-01-26T06:00:14Z

Beyond a biography, the film is a remembrance of how L.G.B.T.Q. people found ways to love and celebrate despite death, despair and other bleak markers of a plague. Celebrating Pride on Film 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

After watching eight mostly bleak short films competing for a separate sidebar prize one first-time American journalist was heard asking: "Is Cannes always this depressing?" Cannes film festival: Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins Palme d'Or 2010-05-23T18:28:00Z

Quite a claim, but it's worth remembering how bleak the musical landscape was 10 years ago. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z

It’s certainly been a bleak few days for news about high schoolers. “You’re hella gay, I’m hella str8″: The best “promposal” ever points to a brighter future 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In your version, the ending is bleak but also allows for some ambiguity. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

It's a bleak tale, redeemed by the humanity that shines through in the soldiers' yearning for peace and brotherhood. Eloquent WWI opera in East Coast premiere in Pa. 2013-02-10T14:25:13Z

And Henry's trajectory through the film, as he spirals into drug use and paranoia in the late 70s, reveals an altogether more bleak vision of criminality. Goodfellas: No 10 2010-10-17T10:46:00Z

If they are right, what kind of pass have we come to, in which even Beckett’s vision is not bleak enough? Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Watch if you like stories so bleak you’ll genuinely contemplate abandoning this toxic world and moving to the woods to make candles and befriend raccoons. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Really enjoyed its bleak outlook at the vastness of space and how cold a spaceship can be. 'My favourite forgotten film' – you recommend your best streaming gems 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

The British series “Black Mirror” is famously bleak, but the Season 3 episode “San Junipero” has what passes as a happy ending in the show’s universe. What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The poems of his mature career were often Delphic, haunted, and bleak. The Final Prophecy of W. S. Merwin 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

It is blithely asserted, for instance, that their hunger for dystopian fiction is whetted by having to live in a bleak world under the pitiless authority of adults. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

Where the novel starts, with a bleak clang—“Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng!”—of the antihero’s alarm clock, the movie begins with a statement of his readiness: “I don’t need an alarm clock to wake me up.” A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

“I had an airtight childhood, and then it” went south pretty quickly, he says, although his language is saltier, and we eventually learn that his story is much bleaker. Review: Teenagers Grapple With Their Demons in ‘Wilderness’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Cubism, Aperol, sailing, synaesthesia, Yorkshire, Venice, Harry Potter, marathon training, Glasgow, siblings, sleeper trains, bleak landscapes, basking sharks. The Blind Date weddings: what happened next 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

From bleak, violent cityscapes, it shifts to the troubled souls of the musicians as they tend the pure flame of art and the impure fire of jealousy. "Half-Blood Blues:" Jazz musicians in the jaws of the Nazis 2012-03-15T20:52:03Z

As visually lush as it is emotionally bleak, the film spills gallons of red liquid - almost none of it blood. Lynne Ramsay's stark 'Kevin' gets Cannes talking 2011-05-12T14:43:09Z

From its tone, the song could be as bleak as Ms. Williams’s past catalog. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z

Money is tight and he's still living with his father, sleeping in a little room above the vacuum repair shop and fearing that his future will be as bleak as his present. Simplicity supplies emotional eloquence to pub musical 'Once' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

After Allen's bleak dramatic detour in last year's "Blue Jasmine," "Magic" appears to be cut from the same cloth as his continental romps "Midnight in Paris" and "To Rome With Love." 'Magic in the Moonlight' trailer: Woody Allen is back in rom-com mode 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Its treatment of female characters is, at best, bleak. ‘Memory’ Review: Getting Too Old for This 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Korea’s Web site as one of the agency’s goals, the picture of Korean life that emerges from much of the country’s literature is bleak. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

He then took to Twitter to reveal the bleak view from where he sat, noting, “All those empty seats are senators who are not prioritizing Alzheimer’s. Unless more noise is made, it won’t change.” Seth Rogen’s funny, touching fight for Alzheimer’s patients 2014-02-27T15:28:00Z

Through this combined playlist, we live vicariously through unfaithful husband, spurned wife, or embittered children—we can roam freely through a pop bleak house. The Wainwright-McGarrigles: The Dysfunctional First Family of Folk-Pop 2011-05-10T19:55:00Z

She starred with Mark Duplass in The One I Love and as the tormented cop on the bleak series Top of the Lake. What the Mad Men Cast Has Been Up to Since the Show Ended 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

The paradox of this film is that it is both unremittingly bleak and rigorously humane. | 'Into the Abyss': ?Into the Abyss,? by Werner Herzog - Review 2011-11-10T22:23:18Z

The playwright Emily Feldman achieves a captivating depth of field beyond her characters’ surface actions, and even their mordant, often bleak powers of observation. Review: In ‘The Best We Could,’ the Players Follow Directions 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Poverty is bleak and cuts off your long-term brain. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, that symbolism tended to be grandiose and fantastical, now it is bleaker and earthier, even dystopian. Design: Furniture Designers Are Shifting Focus 2010-04-11T14:52:00Z

The show has always had this aesthetic which was bleak but chill. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Land survived the hardship of her years as a maid, her body exhausted and her brain filled with bleak arithmetic, to offer her testimony. The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

She’s trussed up in the getaway van, and her fate looks bleak. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

There’s another version of this story, one that’s bleaker, more depraved and currently even more popular: the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy, which has now sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Riff: What Don Draper and Christian Grey Have in Common 2012-06-22T21:48:00Z

Clark paints a bleak portrait of a government marked by opacity, greed and willful negligence in a city where most residents are black and poor. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The San Francisco label Dark Entries has become a preeminent destination for bleak, obscure and transgressive electronic music. Around the Clubs: Dark Entries, Galcher Lustwerk and more 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

As part of the 60s revival of Polish comedy, Kondratiuk's film goes some way to addressing the view that Polish cinema was all slow, bleak stories of past suffering. Janusz Kondratiuk: Poland's answer to Woody Allen 2011-03-24T16:39:35Z

The script, meanwhile, veers wildly from moments of existential contemplation to ones of sheer terror, laced with micro-doses of bleak, surreal humor. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Sound and Fury, Set in the 20th Century Even the bleakest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, like “Macbeth,” are punctuated by an occasional moment of comic relief. Music Review: Verdi?s ?Macbeth? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-16T22:47:17Z

Colorful Laundry Room Before If there could be anything more depressing than a sunny day spent doing laundry, it would be a sunny day spent doing laundry in this bleak basement. 2010-02-08T16:51:00Z

Shteyngart's rollicking, hilarious and doomed tale of love and woe is set in a bleak near-future ruled by global corporations and a compliant "Bipartisan Party" government. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

The outlook for that tongue-in-cheek prediction only seems bleaker after the movie, set in an Arab village in Israel at the doorstep of — but not in — the West Bank. ‘Let It Be Morning’ Review: After the Wedding, the Siege 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Herzog doesn’t write jokes, and her vision, though bleak, is neither cynical nor comforting. Down and Out in Paris: Amy Herzog’s Belleville 2013-03-06T13:00:15Z

But for most of the story, “Beyond Outrage” pushes into a fundamentally bleak minimalism with its refrains of aggrieved meetings in plain rooms punctuated by strategic shootings and mutilations. Movie Review: ‘Beyond Outrage’ Mobsters Are Back With Beat Takeshi 2014-01-02T22:35:06Z

I’m a little picky about the Coen brothers and I don’t like Westerns, but this was so bleak and strange and poetic. My Not-Top-Ten Television List, 2018 Edition 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Whatever bleak horror they’re enduring now, pain is old hat to them, and they did know beauty once. ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

The 1960 adaptation of HG Wells' novel is a hauntingly bleak parable about man's self-destructive nature. Clip joint: the five best time machines 2013-06-05T14:54:04Z

It’s well past time to allow mothers to be creepy, dark and bleak. Mothers and monsters: On writing through the terror of parenthood 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

This is also the perfect film for fans of interminable scenes of bleak adolescent post-traumatic despair. Soul Surfer: something for everyone 2011-02-02T09:38:00Z

The landscape is bleak, dotted with desperation and longing. New CDs: Tom Waits' 'Bad As Me' 2011-10-25T04:07:04Z

The intersecting story lines are all perhaps too similarly bleak in tone and even hue. Television Review: ‘The Bridge’ Adapts a Scandinavian TV Crime Series 2013-07-09T20:28:57Z

It may be a bleak view, but it’s hard to say two decades of history have proven it wrong. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

He says even bleak records can have the power to heal. Mark Lanegan plays the Showbox, his favorite venue 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

With his future looking bleak in the Great Depression -- and his mind filled with hate -- Tommy pulls out a pistol and guns down Nucky. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Nucky's criminal saga ends after 5 seasons 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The narrator lives in a bleak, dystopic world that might be our own not too many years hence. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Ki Price The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z

“I was exposing them to a kind of literature and theology that said that human life is pretty bleak,” Jones said. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The desolate landscape of industrial sprawl in the fictional city of Vinci, just outside Los Angeles, is much bleaker than the fields and swamps of rural Louisiana. Review: ‘True Detective,’ Season 2 on HBO, Plays a Symphony of Misery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

But he makes it clear that his mission is to create music that’s a refuge from bleak realities. Pink Sweats Harnesses the Power of Niceness 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Aside from “Bonne Journée,” the lyrics on “Multitude” are often bleak, pointed or acerbic, with characters expressing loneliness and resentment, anger and frustration, set to delicate arrangements and impeccable melodies. Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s fatalistic and bleak, addressed to a distant and inscrutable God: “If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame/You want it darker, we kill the flame.” The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

"O Tannenbaum" provides a bleak finale: a moral white-out in a snowbound landscape where a family pick up a couple of hitchhikers. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

The warm-weather television landscape isn’t as bleak as it once was, but it still includes a fair amount of filler, a description that fits USA’s “First Impressions,” which begins on Tuesday night. Review: ‘First Impressions,’ a $10,000 Impersonation Battle 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Watch if you like bleak, unglamorous and distinctive ensemble shows. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Thirteen’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The financial picture is bleak for African American and Latino cultural organizations. Roundup: Historic Lebanese museum reborn, the art of Hermann Göring, Pershing Square in 1916 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

If you like bleak ensemble dramas, try “Blackstone,” a Canadian import set on a fictional First Nation reserve. What You Should Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

These criticisms might contribute to a fair, if depressing, analysis of the state of our democracy, but you have to wonder about the rather bleak view of theatre they present. Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z

Turner’s bleak and horrifying painting, “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying.” Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Yet the situation is enigmatic, and the mood stays bleak. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z

But I felt that in the raw maw of this bleak winter, I was definitely in the mood for whatever gently macabre release a cozy thriller might provide. Review: The Comforts of the Cozy Scare in ‘The Woman in Black’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

His own longtime Southern-rock jam band has a gravity to match either of them, with brawling, distorted riffs and lyrics full of bleak insight. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The lyrical gist of the song — in brutal shorthand, crushing isolation softened by a bleak epiphany — came across more clearly than usual, even as the crowd giddily sang along. Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z

Even the bleakest Carnegie stories, by contrast, strobe with flashes of good will. What Makes an American Hero? (Or a Canadian One?) 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

At the outset of the pandemic, prospects looked bleak for the Barrow Group, the 35-year-old Off Broadway theater company known for its actor training programs. Barrow Group Announces New $4 Million Performing Arts Center 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

A bleaker world-view, truer to the Street's carnivore ethics, would have demanded the abortion of one character's fetus as a final sting and judgment. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z

In this impressively bleak London crime yarn, Statham’s fearsome hooligan Brant is introduced decking a street gang with a hurling stick. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Which may be the problem with this bleak tale about people trapped in the American prison system. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

By the time “Xscape” ends the album, Jackson has moved into his bleak, scratchy, heavy-breathing staccato mode, as he sings about being pressured by relationships, the media and “the system.” Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

By the end, the hilarity has modulated into a bleak solipsism, with no human contact – except for a heartbreaking fraternal devotion. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

The first scene of the original Netflix series is their release, but throughout the series, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” offers flashbacks to life in the bunker, and girl, it’s bleak. “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is still rough around the edges 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Personally, I found it far more convincingly bleak in its more satirical sections dealing with the attitudes of the supposedly tolerant middle-classes, and their pinched and loveless relationships. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

Buddhism, he argues, doesn’t paint such a bleak picture. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

I asked the singer El Perro Del Mar to sing it with me, because I'm a huge fan of her lyrics – they're full of idioms and life lessons, some of them very bleak. Waxing Lyrical: Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals 2011-02-24T14:32:51Z

This film is very dumb, very bleak and very graphic. 13 Hours: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie and 'the American Way' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

That is why The Prince is still interesting and relevant and why it remains, for all its bleak view of human nature, the best practical guide on how to wield power that has been written. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Joyce dimly lights this psychic landscape, and hems it on all sides with a bleak darkness. Darkness in literature: James Joyce's Araby 2012-12-20T10:35:35Z

Where they went in the bleak weather of May and early June is as tantalising a mystery as their return is a benediction. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z

The Wire is bleak and poetic like a sort of ghetto Tarkovsky. The Guide's 1,000th issue: 2004-2007 2013-01-05T00:04:00Z

"There's another point to this film, and that's no matter how bleak life might be, there's always a way forward if you're open to see it," she told reporters in Toronto. Firth tackles story of torture, forgiveness in 'Railway Man' 2013-09-08T01:07:22Z

Ms. Martinson’s vigorous and disturbing “Ndebele Funeral,” at 59E59 Theaters, presents a grim portrait of contemporary South Africa, a place of false hopes and bleak realities. ‘Ndebele Funeral,’ Set in South Africa, at 59E59 Theaters 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“The Leftovers,” a 10-episode HBO series, was one of the bleakest fantasies in recent years: One day, 2 percent of the world’s population vanishes. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Pitt, for his part, "gives a fine, believably bleak performance, despite the slowly tightening noose of heroism around his neck." 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Are these bleak portraits of hope-starved lives meant to be farce or tragedy? | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z

If horror movies provide us with portrayals of our own demise, then apocalypse movies present us with even bleaker scenarios: memento moris writ large and unmistakable. Clip joint: comedy apocalypses 2010-04-14T15:00:00Z

So a gutsy treatment of Banks of the Nile is suddenly decorated with impressive harmonies, while Sartin provides a fine, thoughtful treatment of the bleak Captain's Apprentice. Faustus: Broken Down Gentlemen – review 2013-03-07T22:20:01Z

She’s resolute and vulnerable, incisive and responsive, rapturous and bleak, angry and funny, implacable and compassionate, enthusiastic and inquiring. Wendy Whelan Leaves City Ballet After 30 Years 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

When he died in 1938, Capek was working on this bleak polyphonic novel about a half-crazed, compulsively plagiaristic composer. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The intersecting stories resonate with shared themes of adoption, abandonment and redemption, and Atkinson brings tenderhearted wit and energy to even the bleakest scenes. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z

Bacon had a bleak outlook on life, Mr. Peppiatt said, and his favorite books and poems confirmed this. Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Taylor himself said that the alternative was "just too bleak to consider". The Hobbit relocation row sparks street protests in New Zealand 2010-10-25T11:40:00Z

At our worst, city Alaskans often view the villages as bleak and uninviting places. Finding a Foothold for Nordic Skiing in Rural Alaska 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Under a cosy veneer – Corbett can't help but sound initially cosy – there are lovely, bleak observations about family life. When The Dog Dies 2010-05-03T07:00:00Z

But for George, as he made his way back to Studio 2, the situation had suddenly been rendered even bleaker than it had been before Geoff’s desertion. The Beatles’ struggle to finish “The White Album”: How bad did it get?  2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

The show has swung in unsettling, often darkly hilarious, bleak, and raw directions. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

You put these bits in your pocket, however, to see you through the bleaker passages. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z

The following scene takes place in the bleaker confines of a gynecologist’s office. Review: ‘Double Lover’ Is a Knotty Delight of a Thriller 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

MEAUX, France — Near the edge of a parapet of stacked sandbags, a test robot rumbles, offering visitors hundreds of miles away a bleak view of military life in World War I trenches. Let a Robot Be Your Museum Tour Guide 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

"Unrelentingly bleak" … a fisherman on the bank of the Yangtze. The Dark Road by Ma Jian – review 2013-05-02T11:00:02Z

And like a common view of printed newspapers’ futures, the end of Auerbach’s insights are bleak. Twitter's Problems, Newspaper's Problems And 'Big' Conversation's Problem 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z