| 单词 | bleakness |
| 例句 | I shuddered slightly at the sudden bleakness in his voice, but I was relieved. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He felt the cold bleakness of the General’s childhood underlying the man’s personality. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His chest was stuffed, a feeling of cool bleakness there, no strength in him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The women found the hotel rather dreary, especially at night, but the presence of its handsome and clearly wealthy owner helped dispel some of its bleakness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Compared to the bleakness outside those windows, the opulence felt like a slap to the face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She stared at him without entirely seeing him as the ash-gray sky turned into the bleakness of Endovier, and the hiss of the wind became the sighing of slaves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The wind, the empty sky, the deserted earth—Miyax had felt the bleakness of being left behind once before. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future affected my will to study. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, a bleakness and borderlessness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Early American writers, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne, complained bitterly about the bleakness and flatness of the American scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But in the bleakness, there were spots of hope. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The colors were so vivid in the bleakness of the ruins that the jacket seemed to glow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The films were a wonderful diversion, a vivid escape from the bleakness of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Azareen looked sharply away at that, and in the bleakness of her eyes, Lazlo saw a shade of the anguish of loving someone who doesn’t love himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He would never be able to depict the very bleakness of bombing hungry people. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The filth, stink, and bleakness of the camp crushed his spirit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My palette is thawing, and the bleakness of the earliest beginnings has gone. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She ran to the window and nearly ripped the curtains from their hangings as she opened them to the gray mountains and bleakness of Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was a bleakness in his father’s eyes that weighed heavily on Doha’s heart. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I had read so much about the loneliness of the farmer, the trapper, the woodsman during the bleakness of winter that I had come to believe it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The bleakness did not entirely leave his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Many of your stories in your recent collection, “Brief Encounter with the Enemy,” combine a sense of bleakness with a kind of mordant humor, and that’s the case here, too. This Week in Fiction: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z If so, the unbearable truth resides in the children, whose childhood was stolen from them, leaving nothing in their eyes but bleakness, despair and, most terrible, reproach. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z Amid the bleakness are moments of light: his love of drawing; a friend who teaches him to play chess; and encounters with a local farmer. 8 Comic Books to Get You to Spring 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Such bleakness has been consistent in her lesser-seen roles as well, most notably in the work of the New York writer and director Alex Ross Perry. Elisabeth Moss Has a Reputation for Darkness. ‘Her Smell’ Is No Exception. 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z That times have changed doesn't make this less uncomfortable reading, but the creeping bleakness is lightened by the author's clear affection for his subject and some humorous episodes. The Black Flash by Paul Harrison - review 2012-12-27T08:00:02Z The play never sugarcoats, yet it steers clear of bleakness because Majok’s language is so entertainingly alive. A Polish immigrant fights American hard times in absorbing ‘Ironbound’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z There is a lyrical bleakness, but a reason his craft has drawn so many admirers is how he connects his trials to the larger human condition. Mark Lanegan plays the Showbox, his favorite venue 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z For “Swamped,” he fashioned a twilight experimentalism: a quickly changeable sound that stopped just short of bleakness. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z With words kept to a bare minimum, the sound of buffeting, violent winds takes residence in your ears, reinforcing the central bleakness of the plot. Clip joint: When the wind blows 2012-06-20T16:47:18Z Kwame Anthony Appiah, the chairman of the judges, said the six-book shortlist was most notable for the bleakness of its subjects, among them ecological destruction, prison life, institutional racism and slavery. Man Booker Prize Shortlist Reflects Dark Times 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z This is also a chance to tap into the services of dancers, artists and other performers who may be looking for paid opportunities, given the bleakness of their industries right now. 5 ways to help tweens and teens refresh their friendships during a pandemic 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z For all his lacerating one-liners, Byers's real skill is the pathos achieved through bleakness. Idiopathy by Sam Byers – review 2013-04-13T10:01:01Z Yet while this singular production, which opened on Thursday night at the Belasco Theater under McPherson’s luminous direction, evokes the Great Depression with uncompromising bleakness, it is ultimately the opposite of depressing. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Shteyngart used to live in what was once the immigrant ghetto on the Lower East Side, high up in a tower of almost Soviet bleakness inhabited by Jewish retirees on walkers or in wheelchairs. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z But if you're like me, you'll start to think of circumstances in which you might, a situation in which the exchange of years of bleakness for a week of bliss is worth it. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z There’s certainly a bleakness to some of these songs. Mandy Patinkin Has Found a ‘New Life Partner in Music’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z He said he treated the ground floor like a “big constructivist sculpture” and it’s an odd feeling, emerging from this romantic bleakness into streets of neo-classical architecture. Concrete thinking's in fashion at Brussels' brutalist Jam Hotel 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s what makes this season a quiet masterpiece, worth the bleakness it delivers. “The Americans” Is Too Bleak, and That’s Why It’s Great 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Their only break from the bleakness of the asylum was to work for local peasants until they were too ill or too old to continue. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z Essential Killing is spectacular and mysterious, but the bleakness is an ordeal. David Thomson on Jerzy Skolimowski 2011-03-24T22:17:00Z Gilead’s capital remains in Washington, and the visual drama of the Mall, especially when gazing across the reflecting pool and up at the Washington Monument, lends itself to the show’s bleakness. The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z While recession-era bleakness reigns, this show finds optimism in the dark days of 1970s New York. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-26T00:07:56Z Their eventual tenderness is palpable, though deepened by bleakness: Sam has to carry his grandmother to dance, because she will never be able to walk again. ‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Little and Vavrek manage to make the bleakness work dramatically, in part by ratcheting up the intensity over the opera's entire span. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The pain at the center of this study of human purposelessness can be hard to take for someone unprepared for the bright glare of Beckett’s unbounded bleakness. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Massenet and his librettists softened the bleakness, jiggered the story and tailored the work to the tastes of opéra-comique audiences in Paris for the 1884 premiere. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z Both beautiful and oppressive, the bleakness of the landscape in winter suggests something uncanny in the air, as if we were watching a horror film without ghouls. 'Ida,' by Pawel Pawlikowski: A Film Masterpiece 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z He lived the 20th century in all its bleakness – a brother murdered by the Nazis, his first Winterreise performed as an American prisoner of war in Italy. Ian Bostridge: 'Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a titanic figure' 2012-05-18T16:58:15Z He and Rob Gjersoe swapped lightning guitar leads, trading smiles even as they sang of bleakness and blood. Concert review: Dave Alvin at City Winery 2012-08-22T06:22:00Z The topography of chilly hollows and ragged forests is filmed in a way that emphasizes its bleakness. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z I thought the ending was confidently done, the three notes of the teacher's voice echoed by the beats of "nods, / nods, nods", setting up the bleakness of the final image. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z Its force lies in its emphasis on the bleakness of vision of a work usually presented as kitsch. Aida - review 2011-03-13T14:55:38Z A bleakness absent in Haworth itself, where the town's stores are all staffed by people in ye olde fancy dress and there are more gift shops than cobbles. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z For all the mess and bleakness of its subject — the struggles of the Depression — it’s a remarkably neat, even orthodox work. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z Miraculously, the film never sinks into bleakness, and that’s largely because of Ms. Baumane’s tendency to speak her mind, sometimes unpredictably. 'Rocks in My Pockets,' an Animated Film About Depression 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The innovation of “BoJack Horseman” may be that it finds nothing funny in the bleakness of its world. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z We were all feeling burned out by then, just the way Death was, and there was this sort of bleakness which was settling in. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z We could do with a nice romance to make season seven’s current bleakness more palatable. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Its decision to play the heartfelt, Neil Young-esque lullaby "Broken-Hearted Wine" shortly after the dark, cryptic and somewhat terrifying "Pea" showed surprising emotional versatility for a band sometimes criticized for an uncompromising sense of bleakness. Reunited slowcore band Codeine more vital with age 2012-07-10T19:37:03Z Such bleakness is dispiriting, but Harris, who also directs, writes with a crisp, elliptical style and sense of political engagement that temporarily keeps the fatalism at bay. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z That said, I shouldn’t undersell the bleakness of “Euphoria.” “Euphoria” and the Flawed Art of Gen Z Prophesying 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z The pathos, bleakness and strange lyricism interwoven here make a rare achievement in dance drama. Dance Review: At Royal Ballet, Debuts by Liam Scarlett and Wayne McGregor 2012-04-06T22:17:43Z The scene, Beckettian in its bleakness, is also indicative of the book's sexual charge. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z So is the symbiotic bond that has protected them from the bleakness of their lives. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z As we sped through the bleakness of the suburbs, I was joined by Aleksandr and Aleksandr, both in Adidas vests and sliders, and wondering what on earth I was doing on board. ‘The Godfather of trains’: the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z And it isn't just the swearing or the bleakness. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z Every year brings a fresh collection of all-too-believable tales of West Country bleakness, delivered in an unflinching monotone and garnished with impressively arcane jokes about pop culture. This week's new live comedy 2013-02-16T00:05:15Z This overture, taken with the fact that the narrator’s about to visit an old friend succumbing to cancer, may baffle readers for its impenetrable bleakness — apt as that may be for our present straits. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But while I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to look at that tiger without laughing, I wouldn’t mind a break from the unremitting bleakness of the “Walking Dead” worldview. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 2: Greetings from the Kingdom 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Soto and I gazed across the maw at a scene of otherworldly bleakness: A curving wall, tinted green, splattered with bird feces, or whitewash, and riven with crevices, formed the volcano’s lip. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z But if you don’t get cheered by flocks of adorable children all dressed up in bows and plaids and velvets racing around vast expanses of carpeted lobby, your yuletide bleakness is stronger than mine. Dinner at ‘The Nutcracker’: Our restaurant critic and dance/movie expert taste-test the Seattle holiday classic 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Have a listen to our stream of her 2011 album Conatus, and read Paul Lester's appraisal of the women bringing a shot of good old bleakness and misery to contemporary pop. Latitude 2012: festival preview 2012-07-11T09:36:00Z OK, those phrases reveal a certain bleakness of outlook – but horror and comedy are frequently good companions. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z A Commonplace Killing, described by its as a "gripping psychological thriller... set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London", will be published on 2 May. Peston transcribed wife's final book 2013-04-30T09:31:12Z Finally, he could make sense of the duality in which he still lives – “the mania, finding things too exciting, then the withdrawal, apathy and bleakness”. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Gentler than Muriel Spark’s “Memento Mori ,” but no less honest, “The Dark Flood Rises” examines aging from liver spots to liver failure, but the novel’s humor vaccinates it from chronic bleakness. Margaret Drabble finds wit and humor where you’d least expect it 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Despite his own propensity for bleakness, Berninger rarely crosses into nihilism. Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It's a romp' Adult comic book adaptations often double down on the bleakness just to drill into the audience how grownup they are. Preacher: is Seth Rogen's new show the best comic book adaptation ever? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet, despite such moments of feverish bleakness, Dear Boy never seems too dejected or wearying, recognising our need to connect, feel and love, however painful the consequences. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z Readers want to root for a protagonist after such unmitigated bleakness. What if the Meat We Ate Was Human? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z When I read St. Aubyn I’m floored over and over again by the warmth and intelligence and eloquence of his work, the moreso because he traverses landscapes of such extreme emotional bleakness. Two Good Books: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Edward St. Aubyn's At Last 2012-02-15T21:23:51Z “The Dark Knight” would arrive the following month and capture the mood with on-the-nose bleakness. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Amidst the bleakness of this social landscape, squinting all the while in the glare of a culture that radiates ultraviolet consumerism and infrared celebrity. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z I liked the bleakness of the implication that the creation of the deadliest weapon in known history had no animating reason. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He wisely puts a human face to the story: Zack Rago, a “coral nerd,” finds that even his considerable enthusiasm is no match for the bleakness of his research. Short Attention Span? All These Movies Are Under 90 Minutes 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z This goes some way to explaining the bleakness and cynical sense of destiny in Sharp's films, which he called "existential melodramas". Alan Sharp 2013-02-14T11:40:41Z But the play’s mixture of ruefulness, bleakness and bittersweet domesticity never becomes gripping, and drama and momentum are in such short supply that you feel you’re living the tedium the title character has embraced. Review | Drama and momentum are in short supply in ‘Doña Rosita’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Hammershoi’s early work puzzled many of his contemporaries, who saw only its colorless bleakness. Vilhelm Hammershoi’s Paintings at Scandinavia House 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Pondering these desolate ruins, you can imagine the bleakness of being a young Roman soldier stationed here centuries ago. In Europe’s border walls, a divided history and a united future 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z They have that deep feeling of bleakness but they’re also susceptible to illusions of delight. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z But the bleakness and despair of “16 Millimeter Earrings” belongs to the past. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z The story’s bleakness, its motifs of environmental destruction and the possibility of human extinction give it resonance, as does its allegory of the despair and vengefulness fostered by the Cultural Revolution. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z And the charge of unredeemed bleakness is now partly true. Review: Final Season of ‘The Killing’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It almost felt like a turning point, or at least a minor divergence from the unrelenting bleakness of the past few weeks. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Flames in the Night Sky 2014-05-05T03:38:23Z For all their surface bleakness, Ms. Guy’s books were far from hopeless. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z And while “BoJack” may be, as many writers have argued, remarkable for its insistent bleakness, it is not unique in that regard. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But from one verse to the next, lower voices enter, and the final, lowering notes are given over to the bass alone, suggesting how hope curdles into bleakness. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The bleakness of this strange, pressing veterinary thriller is interspersed with a little cockroach-based levity. Fiction for older children – review 2013-03-30T15:00:02Z And Bart, at least in his lyrics, does not stint on bleakness; even the bouncy title song is violent, proposing various ugly fates for the boy who dares to ask for more food. ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z What's really off-putting about the movie is not the dark energy of the sexual encounters but their bleakness. Sex and Shame in Venice: Michael Fassbender Is a Real X-Man 2011-09-05T09:45:00Z It looks a lot like "Blade Runner" for a long stretch, then it echoes the bleakness of "The Road," then it tries out a comic approach, then it moves into satirical prophecy. 'Repo Men': Heartless job drives anything-goes sci-fi thriller 2010-03-18T22:02:00Z That bleakness is now mostly overgrown by forests except for a few slag piles. Imprint: My Upper Peninsula 2013-12-04T20:26:39Z The majestic, even stolid, textures you'll find elsewhere, just as you'll encounter the same sense of bleakness and breadth – of a limitless horizon in which ideas take generations to come into themselves. Gerhardt/Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z As he describes the terrible bleakness of Tristan dying before King Marke can reach him, tears stream down his face. Tristan und Isolde in widescreen 2010-09-21T20:29:00Z As for the novels, they’ve gotten me through times of bleakness and uncertainty from fifth grade to now, and are a never-ending source of amazement, gratitude and joy. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z But within that there is a lot of scope for bleakness. Andy Stanton's 'cult humour for kids' 2011-07-05T11:48:22Z And there can be a bleakness to the light; it’s like an X ray, penetrating everything. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Upon its arrival, though, the film's oppressive bleakness, grisly violence and elliptical script translated to poor reviews and a meager box-office gross. Brad Pitt gets gritty again in 'Fury': 5 lessons from his recent work 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z These warming edible scents needn’t be reserved for the bleakness of winter. Comforting Fragrances for Cold Winter Days 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Another of Channel 4's across-the-week dramas, Run came and went in a blur of bleakness last week. Catch-up TV guide: from Top Boy to Run 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z David Tudor's electronic score whispered, surged and moaned a chilling bleakness into the piece. Cunningham dances hit antic, moody, transcendent notes 2011-10-28T17:18:04Z “People are frightened of bleakness, aren’t they? Having no redemption is quite brave, I think.” Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z "Eileen" adopts convention and dips it into murky Moshfeghian brown, which is more staunch bleakness and delightful filth than any antique sepia. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z He solved the bleakness problem by imagining “Drood” as a show within a show performed in a Victorian music hall. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z Unsworth was a slim, elegant man whose gentle diffidence and dreaminess masked a steely, even ruthless dedication to his art, and the humanity, as well as the bleakness, of his moral vision. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z Shrouded in fog, squalor and melancholy, “Port of Shadows” is less concerned with the machinery of plot than with conveying a sustained mood of uncompromising bleakness. Michèle Morgan, lustrous French actress of ‘Port of Shadows,’ dies at 96 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Rogue One is a fine movie, a splendid rewind to the classic 1970s space operas injected with just enough Trump-era bleakness to make it a more than worthwhile trip to the multiplex. Rise of the apes: how Rogue One's strange birth lays bare Hollywood's imagination drought 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Nearly every character has a dark secret — each darker than the last — as though bleakness alone could make "Third Person" important. A semi-happy ending for 'Once Upon a Time' 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z They blend humor and bleakness, sex and poverty; they disconcert as much as entertain. Danny Brown finds success by rapping about being broke 2012-03-28T00:18:00Z The bleakness of "Boule de Suif" is typical of Maupassant, who considered life "brutal, incoherent, disjointed, full of inexplicable, illogical and contradictory disasters". A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z He loves "The Walking Dead" and the "Halloween" franchise, but couldn't deal with the bleakness in these episodes. "Stranger Things" and the frustrations of nostalgia 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Midway through, the curtains were yanked apart to suggest rooms and corridors while Shayne’s lighting resourcefully enhanced the bleakness of Gamson’s vision. Choreographer Rosanna Gamson delivers a 'Restless' night of dance at REDCAT 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The landscape represented on the walls — an arbor of leafless trees — is not one full of the promise of spring, but of the bleakness of winter. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Its grim images of quarantined refugees and rotting hordes summon a bleakness at odds with its most fun creation: An elite zombie power couple with functioning brains. ‘Army of the Dead’ Review: Thieving Las Vegas 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Whether that says more about the sweetness of that moment or the bleakness of this one, I'm not sure. The best place to feel lonely is in a bagel shop 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z “The fantastic imagination of the hero” is what reveals the profound desolation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” but also what redeems the play from absolute bleakness. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z This helps to create a feeling of quiet bleakness, which seems to fit a place where language is censored, or heavily controlled. New play explores a world in which everyone must watch what they say 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z I don’t claim the parallel is precise, but Rubio’s Super Bowl party only briefly pretended to be a Super Bowl party before dissolving into bleakness and confusion. I went to Marco Rubio’s super-sad Super Bowl party so you didn’t have to: A tale of six-layer dip and disappearing momentum 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z It's a gift to be able to write about such dark stuff without succumbing to utter bleakness, and to infuse even scorching sadness with a ray of hopefulness. Bill Clegg's 'Did You Ever Have a Family' finds solace amid tragedy 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Big-budget disaster pictures, even when fitted out with an apparently high-minded message, mostly traffic in a queasy sort of cosmic Schadenfreude; the post-apocalyptic wasteland movies too often mistake bleakness for truth. ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ and Other Apocalyptic Movies 2012-06-15T18:30:00Z You don’t have to endure the winter bleakness of Potsdamer Platz, and you can watch a lot more, since you get a full 24 hours into which to cram each day’s crowded viewing menu. Berlin film festival 2021 roundup: the most impressive selection in years 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z But he treats it not with sentimentality or exaggeration, but with uncompromising lucidity; hence its, well, bleakness. Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The bleakness of the current political moment, with its repellent upsurge of misogynist and racist rhetoric, should make that project of modernization all the more urgent. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z This is psychologically fascinating, and director Dominic Hill is fully committed – perhaps too committed – to the bleakness of Norris's vision. Sleeping Beauty – review 2012-12-12T18:16:01Z The bleakness of early winter—the short, hazy days, the bony trees, the way the sky grows dense and unanimated, a sagging gray blanket—can, on the right day, seem nearly funny. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z For all its bleakness, the story does have some fine lighter touches. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Dealing with their simulated bleakness was a surprisingly comforting way to cope with the harsh reality of living through a pandemic. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2021 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z If you gaze into that bleakness even for a moment, the sum of life becomes null and void, because if nothing lasts nothing matters. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Long, empty roads cut through the solidified lava fields, taking us on to the bleakness of the black beaches of Vik and the many magnificent waterfalls. The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z But, like Mahler's, how achingly beautiful they are in their bleakness, especially in performances like this one. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z But bleakness isn’t the overall mood of “Like Family,” nor is it the final note the book sounds; rather, it’s melancholy, and there’s a world of difference. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Too bad that her face and eyes carry nothing of the warmth and bleakness that made Patricia McBride, the role’s originator, so haunting here. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in Balanchine at Lincoln Center 2012-09-23T21:36:02Z That illusion burst, our writers fall hack on bleakness of spirit, soreness of heart. Considering the American Voice 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z A wickedly dark comic streak breaks up the vivid violence and relentless bleakness of "Dredd 3D." Review: 3-D makes beautifully bleak `Dredd' pop 2012-09-20T03:26:08Z Relentless bleakness, what Mantel may deem the opposite of sentimentality, is its own limitation, a shadow sentimentality that also omits at the author's whim large swatches of life: the loveliness and mercy. Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Posner doesn't mask the bleakness but he permits the possibility of slow, incremental change. Top-notch 'Stupid ... Bird' zings with audacity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But a "vacancy" that denied imaginative resonance to our perceptions would be the ultimate bleakness. Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013-03-11T13:41:42Z It is a comedy, but without the sharp, angular edges of satire or bleakness that might endanger the comfort factor. Comfort films to watch while self-isolating – ranked! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z 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 hourlong symphony’s extremes of bleakness and violence must have made many listeners think of that more recent clash. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z With one exception, the tale’s real terrors are raised by images of the poverty and social unrest of the hungry 1840s, the bleakness of unemployment and deprivation drawn into the gilded radiance of a fairytale. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Orwell’s version ended in glorious bleakness, with the pigs carousing with the men and the old order re-established. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This year's winner, Ron Rash's Burning Bright, is possessed of a bleakness that seldom relents. A quick look at 2010 in short stories 2010-12-30T09:00:05Z Despite the bleakness, there are moments of intense brightness. Polish drama "In Darkness" sheds light on Holocaust 2011-09-14T17:18:39Z “Mr. Tambourine Man,” a song of unrelenting insomnia and urban bleakness whose precise meaning has remained a puzzle for decades, was on the acoustic side of the album. Bruce Langhorne, guitarist who inspired Bob Dylan to write ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ dies at 78 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z I wanted the world to be one of bleakness and gloom but to have sparks of beauty — coming out of technology or humanity. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In the end, tragedy arrives abruptly, an unsurprising turn given the unchanging circumstances, yet one that imparts a girl with a sudden awakening to the monumental bleakness of her fate. ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ Review: Coming of Age Among the Poppies 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z And the bleakness of the situation is sealed with the concluding line to the verse: “sleep is like a temporary death.” Bob Dylan in Trumpland: The workingman in "Modern Times" 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The unfamiliarity of it worried me and the bleakness of it depressed me a little. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z The editors who coaxed the British hygge trend into existence were not weirdly accurate weather forecasters, predicting the full bleakness of the conditions to come when they commissioned their books back in February. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Black comedy is the show’s default style; the evening is a muted reveling in bleakness. A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “The most refreshing thing about ‘The Good Place,’ in an era of artistic bleakness, is its optimism about human nature,” James Poniewozik wrote in his review in The New York Times in January. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Norsemen’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Perhaps inspired by the Modigliani sketch, or maybe just because of the bleakness of the subject, Wolfgang Gussmann’s sets and costumes are almost exclusively black and white and shades of gray. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z That is, if your definition of “rewarded” includes being dismayed by the bleakness that exists on the edges of prosperity. Review: In ‘Something Better to Come,’ Growing Up in a Garbage Dump 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z I think you need a measure of bleakness, if only to frame the all-too-fleeting moments of joy. “It’s a literary novel that ate a pulp paperback”: Novelist John Wray on “The Lost Time Accidents” as science fiction, romance and seedy Third Reich thriller 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But the bleakness of this account is also tempered with the redemption that comes at the end. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Novel humour … Sylvia Plath blended bleakness with comedy in The Bell Jar. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z Confronted with bleakness, terror, rage and resignation in such concentration, you couldn’t avoid a bit of worry. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Thomas Quasthoff?s Existential Issues 2010-05-06T20:58:00Z Many of Balabanov's films are metaphorical black comedies that gaze unflinchingly at the bleakness and violence of the last days of communism and post-Soviet society, with classic Russian rock music on the soundtrack. Aleksei Balabanov obituary 2013-05-19T17:18:05Z Although the past he takes us through is irredeemably bloodthirsty, he confidently leads us back to the present, a seeker of light in a world of uncompromising bleakness. 'Stalin's Meteorologist' illustrates the life and idealism in the under a dictatorship 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Irrational optimism in the face of looming bleakness? Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z The bleakness of “A Scanner Darkly” is therefore unsurprising. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z But the most refreshing thing about “The Good Place,” in an era of artistic bleakness, is its optimism about human nature. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z For all the bleakness that his characters encounter there — violence, poverty, retribution — there are moments of possibility and levity, too. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Elliot’s world is rendered in a palette of muddy tones, and Malek absorbs those sullen colors like a sponge, his haunted, hollow eyes reflecting their bleakness right back at us. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z And yet, this bleakness must also be something of a defense. An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The show’s attempt to bend the trajectory upward, episode by episode, only highlights the bleakness below. The Delights and Discomforts of “The Bold Type,” a Woke Fantasy of Magazine Journalism 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Ending a season of unremitting bleakness with an unambiguous, unhappy ending would have been harsh of “Mr. Robot,” but understandable. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z As the bleakness builds, so does the experimentalism — under the artful hand of the cinematographer Nils Alan Eklund, terror is rendered in shapes, colors and, ultimately, darkness. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Black-and-white scenes that open episode 1 are set in a post-“Breaking Bad” bleakness, quickly flashing back to the vibrant, high-desert color and light of shabby Albuquerque — which is understood to be the past. Review of AMC’s ‘Better Call Saul’: Every sleazeball has a story to tell 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z So determined is Sapphire to expose the brutalisation of children and so relentless is the book's bleakness that the effect is sometimes numbing. The Kid by Sapphire ? review 2011-08-19T11:15:01Z To many, it is synonymous with bleakness, instinctually associated with slums, delirious traffic, Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and weary rickshaw pullers. T Magazine: Kolkata, India's Cultural Bedrock 2011-11-17T22:30:42Z Such an approach would not seem ideal for “King Lear,” which as a study of “unaccommodated man” in a black-hole universe anticipates the bleakness of Samuel Beckett. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z The beaches were out-of-season deserted but we could see only the bleakness. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z William Burroughs admired the unswerving bleakness of Beckett's gaze, the way he reduced compensatory illusions to zero. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z Concluding the series on Nov. 21 are two films that go back to bleakness. Director Edgar G. Ulmer gets his due at LACMA 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z There is an absurdity to the bleakness of “A Little Life,” a sense that real life only rarely reaches such abominable depths. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It would seem from this description that Never Let Me Go is a work of unremitting bleakness and gratuitous sordidity. Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z The bleakness had its appeal, a place and a season away from the sapping power of life without rest. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z It takes a while to register the profound bleakness of her worldview. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Set in a guesthouse in Duluth, Minn., about a decade before Mr. Dylan was born there in 1941, the show is rooted in the same Depression bleakness that informed his art. The Shows I’m Afraid to Look Forward To 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Even if Lee shows the slow and painful disintegration of his father, the ravages of alcohol, the consequent damage inflicted on wife and children, there is no bleakness or self-pity in the telling. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z The rest of the album offers more bleakness, more consolation, more romance and more avuncular wisdom from Mr. Cohen, who long ago proved himself one of rock’s most profound aphorists. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Despite the bleakness of its vision, the poem ends on an optimistic note, expressing the hope that society's polarities will disappear – that "V" will come, once again, to mean "victory". Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z In the unfathomable bleakness of uhygge exist those terrible things from the outside that could destroy you. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z But it mustn’t play out its bleakness too soon or there’s nothing to lose, and thus no drama. Review: Marin Ireland, on Fire in ‘Summer and Smoke’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Whether it will work to merge the life affirmation of Oprah with the human bleakness of Camus — in a stage musical, no less — is an open question. Can cast injury derail 'Groundhog Day'? How the musical has overcome its obstacles (again and again) 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z It is impossible now to watch The Leftovers, a drama in which an alarming new phenomenon causes 2% of the world’s population to disappear, without the show’s already uncompromising bleakness being compounded by real-life events. From The Sopranos to Twin Peaks: the best TV isn’t timeless – it’s prescient 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z In both novels, the bleakness of the material is leavened by Pitcher's uncanny skill with the narrative voice. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher – review 2013-01-04T22:55:12Z While different, hers and his both play on the bleakness of the moors. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z There's a lot of strange delight in this film's journey, and there's no use getting all worked up over the bleakness of its destination -- we're all heading that way anyway. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z As Spring delves into the human cost of scientific disinformation, the bite-size, 15-minute episodes make the bleakness of this story easier to stomach. 6 Podcasts About the Perils of Misinformation 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z With their more expansive canvases, cold-case mysteries often complicate our feelings about justice, yet there’s an overwhelming bleakness here. ‘Skeleton Road’; Crisscrossing plots, with a turn for the philosophical 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z We understood a crucial bleakness in one another, the way others might bond over a sport or Russian cinema. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And with the carriage house still to complete, they’re in no rush — if anything, it’s a chance to trade the bleakness of another Brooklyn winter for some much-needed Southern heat. Modernizing a Southern Home Without Losing Its Charm 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z For all the apparent bleakness of his scripts, I say, they're bound by a sense that redemption seems, somehow, possible. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z But amid the bleakness, there is also humour, and it's no surprise that there are so many comedians among Beckett's fans. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z Amid the bleakness of the pavilion’s first floor are smaller and more hope-inspiring items, including a violin constructed by an American prisoner of war. Grim yet hopeful addition to National WWII Museum addresses the conflict’s world-shaping legacy 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z It was a period of both private bleakness and public greatness. Sly Stone lives to tell the tale of his lifelong journey to heaven, hell and back 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z In its pulsating, soul-piercing bleakness, “20 Days in Mariupol” also depicts how a war like this is designed to pulverize hope. Review: Agonizing and essential, '20 Days in Mariupol' shows us the war atrocities in Ukraine 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z "For all the kitchen-sink bleakness, its community spirit still crackles with warmth, offering glimmers of hope." The Full Monty's striking writers picket Sheffield premiere of Disney+ reboot 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “Yet it’s not actually meant to be depressing,” he clarifies, adding that he thinks of the song as “musical journalism: You’re conveying the bleakness of a real situation through an art form.” The Kinks' Ray Davies on the song he wants played at his funeral 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Then there’s Gang of Four, whose bleakness, inspired by the ravages of capitalism, is quite different from goth’s, and who offset it with a grim resoluteness. Unexpectedly, two nights of classic goth and post-punk at Cruel World festival 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The unremitting bleakness of their ordeal feels shockingly blunt even coming from the Dardennes, who, despite their rejection of sentimentality and uplift, have always maintained a sincere belief in the possibility of redemption. Review: Suspenseful and wrenching, 'Tori and Lokita' is the Dardenne brothers' best in years 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z A substantial supply of gray clouds overhead, often seeming to roll from horizon to horizon, blotting out sunshine, helped to hint at the blankness and bleakness that many associate with winter. Monday suggested a last February effort to be wintry 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “It is not really a surprise, but the results might have just shown uniform bleakness,” he said. Strange DNA found in the desert offers lessons in the hunt for Mars life 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z “We waited as long as we could but had to crack on. So there’s a bit of snowcapped mountain. But I like that bleakness to start now.” Ireland's 'Green Wave' rolls into Hollywood 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z On Monday, it seemed that there were layers of cloud-clenched steel-gray teeth in our faces, depicting the metallic bleakness of a winter’s day. Washington crawls toward warmer weather 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z That such feats were achieved so long ago is inspirational, but there is bleakness in the fact that 50 years on they remain unparalleled. Keep Looking Up 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z She didn’t know how people might react, but she hoped it might offer them a break from the normal online bleakness. Perspective | A boy sang with unbridled joy at a school show. Mariah Carey noticed. 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Then came the reviews, many of which praised her commanding performance while stingingly rebuking the movie as an exploitation of Monroe and for its unrelenting bleakness. How the intensity of shooting 'Blonde' put Ana de Armas in the Marilyn Monroe mind-set 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Alongside the evident bleakness, there's also a defiance in the air in Kremenchuk. Ukrainians dance in the dark to battle power cuts 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Despite Davis’ reputation for bleakness, I prefer to believe that love had become dominant. D.J. Waldie, a onetime critic of Mike Davis, praises his immense influence 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z “Seldom has the bleakness and despair of American college life been portrayed with such immediacy and truth — the paranoia, the Sisyphean striving, the illusive goals, the strange symbiosis that springs up between student and professor.” John Jay Osborn Jr., author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ dies at age 77 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Joao Sousa — the Senior Programme Officer and Marine Plastics and Plastics Expert at the International Union for Conservation of Nature — broke down the bleakness of the plastic pollution situation with Salon. Thanks to lax regulation, fishing waste has created a huge trash island in the Pacific 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z If successful, the dividends could create new jobs, strengthen ties between nations, and provide a bright alternative to the bleakness of conflict and fear. A win-win for Korean American small businesses and Seattle economy 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z But the job brought him face to face with the bleakness of daily life, especially in the backwater rural corners of the country. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Batiuk proudly owns this creative space, balancing cheekiness and the bleakness. How ‘Funky Winkerbean’ became the darkest strip on the comics pages 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The brightly painted walls jar with the bleakness of these young men's lives. Ukraine orphanages: Kids tied up and men in cots 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The greatest existential crisis of our time is to at once be willing to accept the bleakness before us and to resist. Dawn of the apocalypse: Existential crisis for our species is right here, right now 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z But he was countering the trauma of submission to the tenets of mundane life in the West, opposing the bleakness of beige and gray that the mundane conjured. May the ghost of Sun Ra return to lift the 50-year curse he cast on Los Angeles 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Balancing the bleakness of the story with that humanity, and even lightness, was the challenge she and co-creator Patrick Macmanus set for themselves. How creating a playlist kickstarted the writing of 'The Girl From Plainville' 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z As gripping as it was, “Squid Game’s” relentless carnage and bleakness will alienate some voters. Emmys 2022 preview: Where does your favorite TV show stand? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z But it’s at least a declaration of righteousness in a time of increasing bleakness for democracy. Column: If you think anti-LGBTQ+ legislation doesn’t matter for California, it’s time to wake up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The bleakness was briefly interrupted Thursday as Ukrainians celebrated the release of a kidnapped mayor in the Russia-controlled city of Melitopol. Amid rescue efforts after Mariupol theater bombing, city officials describe ‘colossal’ destruction 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Bereft mothers mourned slain children, wounded soldiers were fitted with tourniquets and doctors worked by the light of their cellphones as bleakness and desperation pervaded. Putin says Ukraine’s future in doubt as cease-fires collapse 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Amid the bleakness, though, there is resilience, tenderness and community among the Stolen, a thread of spirituality and an upholding of traditions. Review | ‘Yonder’ is a vital addition to our literature about slavery 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z After the bleakness of competing before largely empty stands amid the height of the pandemic, Collins said she’s grateful to simply see fans’ faces and hear their cheers again. Australian Open finalists Ashleigh Barty, Danielle Collins arrive via different paths, styles 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z For Sjón, the bleakness of Reykjavík was both impossible and ideal. Into the Belly of the Whale With Sjón 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Mostly we lacked even a glimpse of the sun; its afternoon appearances seemed wan and pallid, unable to relieve the bleakness of the day. After our Saturday, a big Sunday storm would be no surprise 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z In a world beset by relentless bleakness, I need that message. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is an emotional culmination of a decade-long journey 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z I don’t normally fly kites at the beach, but it’s one of the more whimsical ways I’ve tried to beat back the bleakness of the pandemic. Column: How I lost my kite and learned the futility of holding on to things 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Remember, though: A journal is more than a dumping ground for bleakness. How to Keep a Journal 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But this time, rather than focus on the bleakness of the past year, Maxwell said he wanted to “find the beauty in this moment.” Maxwell brings shimmer, shine and smiles to NY Fashion Week 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z There is a glory in that, but there is also, perhaps, a shadow of bleakness. Georginio Wijnaldum and the Collective Toxic 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z But they prefer that pace to the bleakness of the pandemic. Baltimore’s top drag couple work the stage, but their most important job is parenting 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z The bigger problem goes beyond its unrelenting bleakness: The series has no idea who June is any more. 2021 Emmys: 'The Crown' prepares to ascend to the drama series throne 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z “The book was asking a lot of the reader to sit in that kind of bleakness for so long,” Ward says. 'A crazy amount of hope': Imbolo Mbue's new novel of impossible struggles 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z But one senior Fatah official suggested there is cause for optimism, if only because of the bleakness of the present and recent past. Biden a wild card as Palestinians look to first general election since 2006 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The real-world news from Israel adds to other signs of hope after months of bleakness. Israel’s Vaccination Results Point a Way Out of Virus Pandemic 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z "I think it's just a message of life going on amongst the bleakness of the situation we are in", she said. Bristol lockdown baby boom street welcomes first arrival 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Shore’s overall role, he felt, was to provide a sense of warmth against the bleakness and despair that hangs over the whole story. A tough year — and tough film themes — bring beauty by way of the music 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z While some aren't letting the apparent bleakness of the day stop them from finding the light. Blue Monday: Why it's a 'load of rubbish' 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z "It was for that reason, rather than their unforgiving bleakness, that they never ran," Jack said. How a Frenchman captured the 'exotic' Glasgow in 1980 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z The most difficult existential dilemma we face is to at once acknowledge the bleakness before us and act, to refuse to succumb to cynicism and despair. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z “The occasional bleakness of her voice speaks especially well to our present moment, and yet her poetry has always been intimately connected to the long lyric tradition behind it.” American Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “It’s just like the quietness and bleakness of winter, except right now.” Big Ten Football May Be Back. The Atmosphere Isn’t. 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z “Cut Throat City” is, at heart, film noir, but for the graffiti and graphic-novel age — a tale of bleakness and alienation told with bright hues, under an unforgiving sun. Review | ‘Cut Throat City’ is film noir for the graffiti and graphic-novel age 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z During her husband’s current, and perhaps final, campaign, Dr. Biden has often sought to provide an optimistic voice in a political climate of bleakness and fear. Democrats Nominate Biden for President, Delivering Long-Sought Prize 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet where some saw bleakness, others saw opportunity. Artists fill the bleak streets of a locked-down Seattle with vibrancy and life 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z The show started out offering a charming break from bleakness — a sign of a nation improvising new ways to help one another through a crisis. The Hollow Inspiration of ‘Some Good News’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z That mission, the first to reach the vicinity of the Moon, launched in 1968, a year that mirrors 2020 in its apocalyptic bleakness. Why a rocket launch can’t unite us right now 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Her poignant bleakness and acid wit did spook the famously conservative country industry. Whiskey, addiction, breakups: Kalie Shorr is the new queen of country 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “The vivid, unusual, stirring characters make it a piquant and often enjoyable read despite the pointed bleakness of the setting,” Malka Older, author of “Infomocracy,” said of Solomon’s debut science fiction novel. Essential end-of-the-world reading list offers a glimpse of the abyss 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z She knew her daughter had died doing what she loved, helping people, but it was hard to ignore the bleakness of her end. A nurse died from COVID-19. Her family says elite L.A. care home ordered her to admit a sick man. 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Their last shot, if it is indeed their last shot, was an ominous sign of the bleakness that awaited them. Column: Magical Lakers season could vanish not only without a title, but without a trace 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z And amid the bleakness of the pandemic, some report a surge in creativity. Bored Russians Posted Silly Art Parodies. The World Has Joined In. 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z And yet this movie’s bleakness of spirit is so rigorous and totalizing that it has the strange effect of leaving you feeling cleansed, even refreshed — and ready to face this broken world anew. 14 great movies to stream during coronavirus quarantine 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z But for many Romans, it came with a sense of bleakness and fear. Italy’s coronavirus lockdown upends the most basic routines and joys 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z If those hard-bitten realists don’t quite feel lucky to endure the bleakness so as to exhibit their true colors, they do feel the value of a misery surmounted. Die-hard Rutgers loyalists have noticed something new this hoops season: Other fans 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Along with the bleakness, and a lack of sure-footedness on foreign policy, there was eccentricity and quirkiness that many found a breath of fresh air. Andrew Yang fell short but outsider campaign's fresh ideas struck a chord 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z But it refuses to succumb, despite the bleakness, to despair. America: The land of make-believe 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Through the bleakness, there appeared a voice of hope. Column: Lakers mourn and celebrate Kobe Bryant's life on a night of heartbreak and healing 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Miller keeps things positive despite the bleakness, such as in his defense of Payton on Friday. A year after Porzingis deal, things remain bleak for Knicks 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Miller keeps things positive despite the bleakness, such as in his defense of Payton on Friday. A year after Porzingis deal, things remain bleak for Knicks 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “I want to mention one other thing that might sound a little strange in this season of division and bleakness,” he said to close out an education forum Saturday in West Des Moines. Biden, Buttigieg seek edge amid Warren-Sanders fight and impeachment complications 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “The bleakness of it in the winter brings out something in me.” 20 for 2020: unmissable culture and rising stars 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z There were the Rohingya survivors who'd travelled from the crushing bleakness of Cox's Bazar - the largest refugee camp in the world - to be guests in the court. Aung San Suu Kyi cuts a haunted figure at UN genocide court 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In order to make a film as unflinching as “Heaven Knows What,” Josh Safdie spent so much time in Holmes’s world that he scarcely registered its bleakness. The Safdie Brothers’ Full-Immersion Filmmaking 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Esther was excited about the challenge, though not fully aware of the potential danger; for all its bleakness and drudgery, the camp had largely spared her from the hatred outside. Column One: She was a test case for resettling detainees of Japanese descent — and unaware of the risk 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z At the end of the day it’s supposed to be a humanizing portrait, but there is a bleakness to it that I feel is important to make clear how I feel about the themes discussed. 19-year-old director Phillip Youmans' 'Burning Cane' is a blistering take-down of the Baptist church 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The bleakness of the task was tempered by shared experiences and laughter. ‘The disappeared’: searching for 40,000 missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Dishearteningly, Enitan’s transition from lost soul to a scholar and now an artist gets shoved into the final minutes left over after all the bleakness. Review: Brutality of autobiographical 'Farming' overwhelms filmmaker's inspiring life story 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It was another bleak Sunday in a long string of bleakness. Analysis | The Redskins fired their coach but didn’t fix his biggest problem 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet all is not bleakness and cause for ire. 'My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Akin ramps up the bleakness as if deliberately wanting to push audiences to the fringes of their tolerance for brutality. Review: Fatih Akin's serial-killer saga ‘The Golden Glove’ pushes the limits of repulsion 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Like a rose blossoming in a field blackened by wildfire, it’s one of many moments on the record that capture in equal measure both beauty and bleakness. California Sounds: Chromatics deliver October surprise in new album 'Closer to Grey' 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z What stayed with me all these years was the bleakness of the scene in the death chamber. Witnessing a Federal Execution 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Days turn into weeks, weeks into years, with the Mima Hall the sole way of staving off the barely tolerable bleakness. Aniara: an angst-fuelled journey through the void 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The bleakness of his manifesto, a lament about the supposed consequences of immigration and automation, echoed the grim vision presented by the Christchurch shooter, who advocated a doctrine that he called “accelerationism”. What induces men to imitate the Christchurch massacre? | Jeff Sparrow 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z “There was the same bleakness, the disconnection,” she has said. The Empty Promise of Boris Johnson 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Despite the book’s bleakness, its most stirring takeaway is perhaps McKibben’s soulful insistence that choices remain. Review | It’s not too late to stem climate change. But we have no more time to waste. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z That unremitting bleakness has led some of the more rabid online fans to name Yang as the “chaos candidate,” a title previously held by Donald Trump. Andrew Yang is the candidate for the end of the world 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The bleakness and brutality of Hugo’s vision is vividly depicted, alerting viewers immediately that there will be no catchy songs or light moments in this “Les Miserables.” Dominic West on the near-erotic bond between Valjean and Javert in ‘Les Miserables’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In each case, the carefully managed tensions of the plot invite you to be excited, while the bleakness of the historical facts at once dares and forbids you to enjoy yourself. “Hotel Mumbai” and the Problem with Terrorism Movies 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Robinson is masterful at evoking the bleakness of his setting — the Yorkshire Dales — as well as the resilience and dark wit of its tough-minded inhabitants, particularly his smart and impassioned but deeply flawed hero. Crime fiction: A best-seller in Russia and a beloved British sleuth 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z I have overheard that kind of thing many times in this room: a jokey, defensive sort of irony in response to the spectacular weirdness and bleakness of these 14 images. Goya's Black Paintings: ‘Some people can hardly even look at them’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z But doing so was a challenge and required flopping up and over a pit of a despair; succumbing to its bleakness was far easier. This game self-destructs in 24 hours: The joy of fleeting play on global site Meditations 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The bleakness shrouding this franchise reflects those numbers — 59-84-1 in Allen’s tenure — and the prospect of him remaining cements the dire outlook. Washington’s season ends, but fans remain ‘Stuck in Middle with Dan’ Snyder 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z It also came at a time of unrelenting bleakness in the news cycle. We live in the worst of times - but amid the darkness good things happened in 2018 | Brigid Delaney 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Its fiendish plot twists and bleakness made the show an international hit. Books 2019: Which top fiction picks will you choose? 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Some complain about the difficulty of connecting with his characters, the bleakness of his material and the lack of clear resolutions to his plots and emotions. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Polarizing Visions 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Or with ghost-story bleakness in a scene called “The Mortal Remains.” ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’: Coen brothers’ Western hits the right notes 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It flooded the brain with thoughts of bleakness and desolation, of scattered patrons in various stages of semiconsciousness. Analysis | Northeast America is somehow about to become college football relevant 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z With this new music, the band is juxtaposing contemporary bleakness with zesty musicianship. Review: Paramore has grown up, but it has never stopped reflecting the current moment 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “Life in those townships is not easy … but you do not get that bleakness when you are with those kids.” An American scholar was killed in South Africa nearly 25 years ago. Today her legacy lives on through music 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Not all the poems dwell on the bleakness of their journeys north and confinement since. Hope, despair in poetry by immigrant children in US lockup 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Straightforward bleakness in television is increasingly trite, which makes Reverie’s apparent optimism fresh and timely. NBC’s new VR thriller Reverie is a schmaltzy take on techno-dystopia 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “There’s a bit of bleakness that our planet is going into unchartered territory.” One man's race to capture the Rocky Mountains glaciers before they vanish 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z A bleakness enveloped Winnipeg in a way that Lipman and the Thrashers’ loyal knot of fans, if not Atlanta as a whole, could understand. The Lonely Existence of Winnipeg Jets Fans in Atlanta 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Hedonism cut with a little bleakness seemed an interesting mix. An Absurdly Inexpensive European Holiday: The Luxury of Krakow 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The therapy of this place is its bleakness: When you leave, you reclaim the joie de vivre you lacked upon admission. He just wanted a new prescription. He ended up in the psych ward instead. 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z With bleakness all around, seemingly everyone is addicted to strapping on a headset and entering the virtual-reality landscape of the OASIS. ‘Ready Player One’ Review: Spielberg goes back to the future 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The film twins these moments of bleakness with the redemptive power of music and self-understanding. With Netflix's 'Roxanne Roxanne,' the story of hip-hop pioneer Roxanne Shanté is finally told 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The game has an eastern European children’s cartoon level of bleakness; helpful for extinguishing the last rays of light from your room and soul. Fitbits for kids? Better yet, encourage them to hopscotch – and tell them they are loved 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Du Maurier was under no illusions as to the bleakness of what she had written. Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 years on 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The same goes for fans, some of whom just like the delicious bleakness of a song like his "XO Tour Llif3" or Future's "Mask Off." Young rappers are getting honest about doing battle with depression, drug addiction and suicide 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z After an unusually bleak year on Broadway, the 2018 season will open with a few escapist musicals – and still more bleakness. Mean Girls, Frozen and Denzel: what to expect on Broadway in 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, the movie uses vibrant, neon lights and moments of periodic, monochromatic bleakness to help tell the story. Critics roundtable: the movies that transported and troubled us in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z AP: Did the experience of making the film mimic the story’s trajectory from comedy to bleakness? Q&A: Kidman, Farrell on the surrealism of ‘Sacred Deer’ 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Anyone who visits Leipzig, with its beautifully restored facades and the amazing modern architecture of its university, will struggle to spot traces of the bleakness and poverty that once characterised eastern Europe. As Germany and Spain prove, history – with all its wounds – is not over | Natalie Nougayrède 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Manning has conjured winning streaks out of bleakness before. Is Eli Manning done? The Giants’ offense is so bad, it’s hard to know the answer. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Legend, 38, released his sixth album, Darkness and Light, last December, which earned praise from the Guardian for its “musical weirdness and lyrical bleakness”. John Legend: ‘Trump is an embarrassment to the country’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Lyrics shift from humour to bleakness, a dozen locations meshing together on one spinning musical globe. Benjamin Clementine: ‘I make people believe in me’ 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Nettleton, who’s directing the show, said the play’s bleakness provoked a strong gut reaction to some unsettling truths. Really Really Theatre Group makes Seattle debut with ‘Much Better’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The chiaroscuro bleakness of Night of the Living Dead is just as resonant today as it was in 1968. George A. Romero Made Movies About the Undead Full of Messages for the Living 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z He grew up in nearby Clairton, an ethnically diverse mill town whose bleakness was captured in the movie “The Deer Hunter.” Jack Shaheen dies; scholar persuaded Disney to alter 'Aladdin' as he fought Hollywood's racial stereotypes 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The final moments of “It Comes at Night” go beyond the usual standards of horror-movie bleakness to achieve an almost unwatchable cruelty — a powerful accomplishment that also feels, in this context, like a limitation. 'It Comes at Night' finds terror in the shadows of a post-apocalyptic hideaway 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The concrete bleakness of the area’s rundown housing projects still brushes up, uneasily, against the new glass-fronted apartment complexes. Premier League Proving Grounds 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Her hysteria is so charming that it masks the bleakness of her circumstance, but the circumstances are bleak indeed. The Other Side of Anne of Green Gables 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Mr. Tambourine Man,” a song of unrelenting insomnia and urban bleakness whose precise meaning has remained a riddle for decades, was on the acoustic side of the album. Bruce Langhorne, folk musician who inspired Bob Dylan's 'Mr. Tamborine Man,' dies at 78 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z "The bleakness is part of the narrative," continues Muir. Urban Burqa: An artist's striking critique of Islamophobia - BBC News 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The bleakness is relieved by the rituals of tension—spot the many dogs that stray into view, and listen for the smashing of glass—and by Mungiu’s baleful pastiche of a happy ending. The Controversial, American “Ghost in the Shell” 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z While not surprising -- Presidents Cup Steve Stricker painted a similarly ominous picture just weeks ago -- it's the most definite report to date on the bleakness of Woods' condition. More Tiger trouble, Trump protest flops and Bay Hill magic: What you missed this weekend - Golf Digest 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But there’s a level of bleakness here you don’t really expect to find among NFL fans in early March. ‘I feel betrayed': Redskins fans erupt in fury after latest reports of front office dysfunction 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But amid the bleakness, the Falcons brought a dash of color and excitement and put a spring in everyone’s step for the last few months. Georgia editorial roundup 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Adding to the visual bleakness, the surface is littered with debris from the Iran-Iraq war when the city’s ancient fortifications were reused as defensive earthworks by the Iraqi army. Despite landmines, snakes and dodgy gin, Iraq is an archaeological paradise 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Despite the bleakness of the movie’s themes, it has a tender strain of humor. The Cinematic Traumas of Kenneth Lonergan 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z He’s right – the balance of deadpan humour and icy bleakness is anything but Technicolor. Sharon Horgan: Queen of difficult women 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Even the exterior backdrops — gray skies and snow-covered sidewalks — add to the overall sense of bleakness. Review: You’ll root for the stars of HBO’s ‘Divorce’ and ‘Insecure’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The bleakness of Eileen’s life is prolonged and taken to such a level it’s almost black comedy. Ottessa Moshfegh interview: ‘Eileen started out as a joke – also I’m broke, also I want to be famous’ 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The video’s bleakness is almost as crushing as the song’s guitar riffs. The Rememberables are making big songs for bad moods 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The director admitted that prevailing on DiCaprio to focus on prospects for change as much as current bleakness was a challenge. In Toronto, Leonardo DiCaprio delivers 'Before the Flood,' a documentary rallying cry about climate change 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Women sold their bodies with the frankness, bleakness and the directness at the center of each frame. Inside 'The Citadel,' Iran's Forgotten Red Light District 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Still, how does all this rhetorical bleakness square with the lives we’re actually leading, down on the ground? OK, maybe reality is not so dire, says local Trump supporter 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Still, for all this misanthropy and unremitting bleakness, BoJack retains our sympathy, especially as we see him wrestle with the damage inflicted by his twisted childhood. The World According to ‘BoJack Horseman’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Crime is most prevalent in Caracas’ hillside shantytowns, steep expanses of cinder-block homes splashed in bright hues that that seem to defy the overall bleakness of life there. The biggest worry in crisis-ridden Venezuela: crime 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s official: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will let you schlep your warmongering arsenal into the inimical bleakness of outer space. Everything We Know About the New Call of Duty 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The bleakness of recession-hit America was perfectly expressed in If We Make It Through December which provided Haggard with his only significant pop hit. Obituary: Merle Haggard - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z As her characters faced relentless physical, economic and social pressures, Cather created unforgettable scenes of despair and the bleakness of the Nebraska prairie. 3 Places Where American Women Made History 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Friday, with its many subfreezing hours and its overcast bleakness, seemed a fit symbol of the grim gray chill that marked so many of the first 50 days of 2016. Fifty days into 2016 and the weather verdict is: It’s cold, even for winter 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z His soaring rendition of Philip Glass’s Streets of Berlin, which rings out across the debauchery and urban rubble below, is a transcendent moment in a film of near-unrelenting bleakness. Gimme celluloid: a history of Mick Jagger on film 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z One of the aims of Good Chance is to provide some light amid the bleakness. All the world's a stage: Shakespeare's Globe takes Hamlet to Calais 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The bleakness of her majors record was as much about her bad luck as any lack of talent or poise on the biggest stages. Zhang Shuai Breaks Through Against Simona Halep, a No. 2 Seed 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Donald Holder’s lighting design conjures pale bleakness and low winter sun. Review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ revival vibrant and heartfelt 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z That loveliness is even more striking when pictures of the Earth are taken from the moon—with the bleakness of our only natural satellite contrasting sharply with the brightness of our home planet. See the Latest—and Loveliest—View of the Earth from the Moon 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z "The aesthetics were shaped by growing up in Poland, by a certain grayness and bleakness," he said. In and out of the shadows with 'Bridge of Spies' cinematographer Janusz Kaminski 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z For snowlovers” painted a portrait of a holiday destination both fun and cozy, far from its Soviet bleakness. Luxembourg Goes in for an Image Makeover 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z And even critics who liked the series were sometimes overwhelmed by what they viewed as its unyielding bleakness. Damon Lindelof never intended for 'The Leftovers' to be so bleak 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Like a space age Robinson Crusoe, he is forced to improvise to survive, while using a wry sense of humor to offset the bleakness of his prospects. Thrills, humor help lure Damon back into space for 'The Martian' 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Fortner’s narrative mainly reveals the bleakness of the choices facing black voters and their representatives in those tempestuous years. Is There a Black Silent Majority? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Abandonment, and the spectre of bankruptcy, intensified the bleakness of the winter in Atlantic City. The Fight to Save Atlantic City 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The assignment resulted in more than 8,000 images filled with both bleakness and hope, sunshine and fire. Pictures: A World Without Energy 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z In the bleakness of the desert beyond Agadez, the impact of migrant flows is even more dramatic. Agadez traffickers profit from movement through Niger to Libya 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z But time proved Hannett to be right, and the icy bleakness of Unknown Pleasures is owed as much to him as to Joy Division. Joy Division: 10 of the Best 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z However, while the events are dark, what they – thankfully – lack is those networks’ general bleakness. 'Graceland' Season 3 Review: The Darkest and Most Focused Season Yet 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z On this day, he was the only resident of the Brooklyn Developmental Center in its cavernous cafeteria, drafty and lit with the bleakness of an earlier era. For Special-Care Residents, State Policy Means Leaving Home 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But for all the bleakness in “Still Alice,” the movie never loses its luster. ‘Still Alice’ movie review 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Director Francis Lawrence, in his second outing in the franchise, stays fairly true to the original text, carrying over the war-torn bleakness of “Catching Fire” without any of the disturbing thrill of the Games. Review: Revolution gathering in ‘Mockingjay 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z We’re now confronting reality in all its bleakness, with no trusted institutions to turn to. We Are 43 Short 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z “Wind the clock” sounds like as good an answer as any to the bleakness of the news cycle - a small gesture of resolve, marking the hours until happier tidings arrive. Louisiana editorial roundup 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z American families hoped to emerge a long time ago from the bleakness of the Great Recession that began in 2008. Mort Zuckerman: Declining Wages Are Killing the American Dream 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z So much more pleasing than the actual formlessness and bleakness of the reality of the universe's total chaos. In 'Cosmigraphics,' Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He doesn’t just seem bleak with hunger; he’s bleak with bleakness. Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’ 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z But he wanted to give the reader a sense of the mind's proper texture, the gleaming bleakness of Edinburgh castle in the rain. Karl Miller: a man of distinction 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z But that tumultuous final day when the bleakness lifted proved the launch pad for Rose's career. More to Europe than McIlroy in ultimate team game 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z I'm saying that they really understood the anarchy inherent in rejecting bleakness. Choose life! Why video games could do with a 1980s' touch 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Unstinting bleakness does not quite fit when the man and his marks shared profoundly goofy traits. Dupe Tells All 2014-03-16T22:00:55Z Contrary to my expectations is not simply Uncharted with brutality and bleakness turned up high. How 'The Last Of Us' Sound Design Out Shines Game-Play 2013-07-04T13:00:00Z Time Out The revived Star Trek films are shaping up to be the opposite of Christopher Nolan's Batman tales in that they're light on bleakness and attitude. Star Trek 2 gets beaming reviews 2013-05-01T11:03:07Z And just the other day I listened to the owner of a small upholstery workshop in the heart of Rome complain bitterly about the bleakness of the business climate. Austerity: Views across Europe 2013-04-26T15:43:47Z Yet it is the very bleakness of this prospect that also gives him hope. Israel at 65 - what does future hold? 2013-04-17T00:08:56Z Regarding dystopian societies or alternate realities set in the future: there is too often a tendency to focus on the darkness and bleakness within the constructs of the story. Scoring Black Ops II's Grit and Soul: Interview with Jack Wall 2012-12-24T06:04:41Z But she echoes the wistfulness of many families in the Northeast who welcome a respite from the bleakness of mid-winter. As Sandy Steals Spring Break, Businesses Worry 2012-11-26T10:51:22Z As for the rest of the field – let's just say the scorer's hut behind the 18th green had the bleakness of a field hospital. Ernie Els rages and Luke Donald thrives on tough Wentworth course 2012-05-26T18:46:29Z The whole bears an aspect of bleakness and solitude, in startling contrast with the wild doings of host and guests. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z I knew how needful it was for him to escape from the bleakness of our New York winter, so I made a hasty mental review of my engagements. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z Detachment takes the struggle of teachers and schools to a new level of relentless bleakness. The cinema of educational despair: A bad narrative reinforced 2012-04-02T08:00:00Z For instance, to-day: Genevieve has had all the paint cleaned and all the windows washed; she is now breathing that righteous atmosphere of cold, fireless bleakness and soap which she adores. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z And the better I knew it the more I loved it, in its winter bleakness and its tempered but delightful summer warmth. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z But it doesn’t take much to remind everyone of the bleakness of the sport Griffin leaves behind. Leading Off: The Good News Bear 2012-01-12T15:23:21Z In 2008 they recorded one song, titled “Pain,” with a hidden political message about the bleakness of life under Colonel Qaddafi. Tripoli Journal: Young Libyans Revel in Freedom to Speak Out 2012-01-11T02:30:48Z It is obvious that Wordsworth, when he speaks of only “two voices,” the one “of the sea,” the other “of the mountains”—“each a mighty voice,” quite overlooked the bleakness and silence of the desert. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Nightfall brought some semblance of order to the sounding chaos, but still kept up the wild music of a typical November day, with every accompaniment of bleakness, gloom, and desolation. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z From the bleakness of the last seven years, she had awakened with revived emotions. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z After two southern winters, with roses blooming all the time, this bleakness and this touch of frost in the ringing morning goes to my soul like an intoxication. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Through this passage Cuni hopped, and passed from the bleakness of the white fields into an enchanted palace. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z A giant mural of a waterfall in a sylvan scene on one apartment block serves only to draw attention to that bleakness. London Riots Recall the Past, Glimpse the Future 2011-06-30T16:50:00Z Seeing Kubrick's 2001 made a lasting impression on his work, as did the Cold War years and the bleakness of some of the derelict areas of post-war Britain. What should spaceships look like? 2011-07-28T07:11:00Z The inevitable great, dark, useless hall was robbed of its coldness and bleakness by soft Turkish rugs placed over the polished floor. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z At first she could see nothing after the blinding light of the other direction, then everything cleared into dun colour and bleakness. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Perhaps under the circumstances, in Barcelona where barely one in 10 of the 95,000 on hand were for Casillas, the bleakness of his words was understandable. Barcelona 1, Real Madrid 1: Barcelona Proves to Be Master of Real Madrid 2011-05-03T23:26:49Z On a recent visit to New York, Mr. Nuez, who was born in Montreal and now lives in Chicago, spent his time searching Brooklyn and Queens for the perfect morsel of delicious urban bleakness. City Room: Shining Strobe Lights on the City's Dark Corners 2011-04-13T15:41:58Z I have wandered in 505 the Shetland and Orkneys, and crossed the Pentland Firth, and know the bleakness of the islands, and the wildness of the seas that moan around them. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Everybody knows the cruel bleakness which that simple fact involves. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Such a withdrawal of approval would have made any other pastor's life a thing of chill and bleakness; Herr Dremmel hardly observed it. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z I am surprised by the bleakness of the picture. Over-50s hit hard by economic downturn 2011-02-15T10:07:58Z Instead of sleeping, he did accounts; got up frowning, to go to sleep at last in the grey bleakness of an autumn morning, to wake with the little parasite, suspicion, gnawing at his heart. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Lady Knox's manner had something more than its usual bleakness. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z We have to present him in a scene of infinite intellectual bleakness, with the thinnest scrub of second-rate books growing contemptibly, and patches of what the Encyclopædist calls tares—wind-wilted tares—about him. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Amusingly, "freeing" the landscape from totalitarian bleakness involves not only making funky colour and graffiti appear but also billboards for real life fast food franchises and high-end sunglass brands. Shaun White Skateboarding review 2010-12-23T12:47:02Z Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA After the bleakness of last week's , this morning we were supposed to be able to talk excitedly about the government's strategy to promote economic growth. David Cameron's growth plan lacks punch 2010-10-25T15:34:00Z I had read Politkovskaya's essays "Putin's Russia" before starting my assignment, struck by the bleakness of the picture they painted but encouraged by her boldness. Witness: Two deaths and four years in Putin's Russia 2010-10-14T10:05:00Z Though maybe that was an appropriate backdrop for the strange bleakness of the soccer on view. World Cup a triumph for Africa but not for the game 2010-07-11T23:33:00Z A nation riddled with murderous violence and staggering inequality sprawls inside a new democracy where humour and vitality still prevail over the bleakness. Interview: Danny Jordaan, CEO of the World Cup 2010-05-31T23:04:00Z A scrim of windblown snow skittered about, accentuating the bleakness. Semper Youngstown 2010-05-01T16:00:00Z The bleakness of Bartlett's horizon is exacerbated by the alarming reality that Hull have a £40m annual player wage bill and precious few playing assets for creditors to strip. Louise Taylor: Hull have to face up to huge debts 2010-04-26T21:18:00Z The bleakness of this thought process helps explain why, according to the Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, people with “ruminative tendencies” are more likely to become depressed. Depression?s Upside 2010-02-26T15:37:00Z Mountain bleakness, the lapidary rhythms of the water, the vast schizophrenic skies: these weren’t inspiring poetry in me; they were inspiring hopeless lust and negative thought patterns. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z Spurrier could no longer deny that his personal world centered about Glory; that away from her would be only the unspeakable bleakness of lonely heart hunger. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The soft gray tone of age remained, but the bleakness and forlornness were gone; there was about all now a warmth and genial bearing that hinted at mellowed beauty, firelight and cheerful voices within. The Valiants of Virginia It lies on the great top surges of the mountains, having all the bleakness of a plain, and the rarefied atmosphere of the mountain summit, which it really is. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 The image of desolation and eery bleakness had its source in the wide-stretching sands, the unforgettable sea beyond, and particularly the inlet, or lagoon, up above the natural dam of stone. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery He had for an instant an almost overpowering sense of the bleakness of his lot. Shadows of Flames A Novel The land is seen to be useless for agricultural purposes; habitations first become rare, then almost entirely cease, bleakness reigning supreme, while one seems to be creeping higher and higher on the earth. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia There is neither host nor hostess; and not one an�mic young d�butante is distressed by the bleakness of her unembarrassed programme. Carnival It was a bleak outlook for them, and the bleakness was reflected in their faces. The Plotters Then the rivers ran black with the waste of the rocky earth they furrowed, and there was no vegetation to soften the bleakness of the landscape. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place But after Ruth went away and the family drew within themselves, as they did, the hospitable spaciousness seemed to become bleakness, as if the place itself changed with the change of spirit. Fidelity A Novel And there was a bitterness, a bleakness, in her eyes. The Graveyard of Space The launch drifted slowly, but none the less surely, toward the strip of sterile bleakness broken only by the huddled masses of the dunes. When the Cock Crows She was like her own New England in its bleakness, without its summer warmth. Rose MacLeod It was a small, comfortable room that did not seem to share the bleakness of most of Onzar. Evil Out of Onzar The landscape, as though in keeping with my mood, dropped down a scale of bleakness. The Portal of Dreams So she looked up full in his face, unmindful of the bleakness of his love-making, and was touched to see that he bore the aspect of a truly anxious and even affectionate man. The Life of Nancy For the coast of Labrador is nearly a thousand miles of barren bleakness and forbidding and foreboding rock wall. The Come Back Weep not at the bleakness of thy life, for the shadow of false faiths will soon be gone, and the Gods shall once more walk among men. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 I’ll stay there and work through the hope of summer and the bleakness of winter, and make a home. Claim Number One How would you like to go out in this place of bleakness? Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The replacements, unused to spacesuits and, in addition, awed and a bit startled by the bleakness of this satellite, were moving awkwardly down the ramp. They Also Serve It must have been an ironmonger's shop, for some black kettles still hung on nails against the stone, and iron stoves in all their bleakness stood up in bold relief on piles of ashes. Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium There is a bleakness, an aridity about them that makes English business rooms seem luxurious in comparison. Westward with the Prince of Wales I opened the window; the draggling vapors were still rising, rising, the bleakness was merging in a mild warmth. Dreamers of the Ghetto The blue hensorr trees, crowding close to the water's edge, were bent backward as if frightened by the bleakness before them. The Long Voyage Strangeways hesitated; then his eyes caught again the bleakness of the land and his imagination pictured the awful loneliness of life up there. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real From here we passed through a land of almost sinister bleakness. Westward with the Prince of Wales This veteran of trails and mines had seen too much of life’s bleakness not to cherish whatever of mirth his days might bring. Red Men and White Everyday light had filled her with bleakness and disillusion. Amabel Channice The boys, wildly excited over the charm and novelty of travelling alone, went to their seats and gravely studied the flat bleakness of Oklahoma. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor The Park had that peculiar bleakness that foreruns the first promise of spring. Turn About Eleanor So enamoured had I become of our new home in the Silver West, that I felt but little longing to return to 180 the comparative bleakness and desolation of even Scottish Highland scenery. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Wherever the valley widens, or the road gains some hill-crest, a huge peak white with newly-fallen snow confronts you, closes in the view, bringing bleakness and bitterness curiously home to the feelings. The Countess of Albany But as she entered it that afternoon its air of peace seemed the bleakness of desolation. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The land is now seen to be useless for agricultural purposes; habitations first become rare, then cease altogether, bleakness reigning supreme, while we seem to be creeping higher and higher on the earth. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands There is a bleakness about buying one's house built; in fact, a man cannot really possess anything unless he has an organised receptivity—a conception of its utilities that has come from long need. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation But in his heart all the while is another knowledge, The sorrow of the bleakness of the long wet winter night. Japanese Prints Nothing remains to me of war pictures except the bleakness. Young Hilda at the Wars I shuddered at the inhospitable bleakness of it. The Fire People He began to hope fiercely that it would not happen, at least in his lifetime, and then felt the cold bleakness of the exile they must will themselves into. The Defiant Agents From the bleakness ahead came a cracked but lusty voice singing “Hello, ’Frisco!” The Innocents A Story for Lovers The summits of the Norwegian Fjelds have only the charm of wildness and bleakness. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland There was a tang in the air, and sense of awakening life in the ground, which not all the bleakness of the wasted farms and the dead bodies of cattle could obscure for him. Young Hilda at the Wars But of a sudden I had the sensation of looking into the utter bleakness and desolation of interstellar space. The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds The warmth of the room was very agreeable in contrast to the bleakness of out-doors. At Fault But in partial compensation for this bleakness is a fine ruggedness. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It seemed very hard and cruel to leave him here in the bleakness of midwinter, Doris thought. A Little Girl in Old Boston I had tried to paint the desolate bleakness of that Borderland where the unnamed Thing and I met, each beyond his own law-decreed boundary, and locked in combat bitter and strong. The Thing from the Lake Would not Sheila, at least, understand the bleakness and desolation of the picture? Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 The clock in the valley struck one, as if marking the end of a time that had been interminable in its tediousness and bleakness. Sacrifice There was the cold bleakness of winter in her eyes as she spoke, and in her voice the first undertone of brass. —And Devious the Line of Duty The bleakness of New England country life as pictured in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, or in some of Robert Frost's North of Boston, is due more than anything else to this privation from companionship. Human Traits and their Social Significance Though its rays were feeble at that time of year, their contrast with the bleakness that had prevailed during the morning threw a perceptible warmth into the crouching men. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life She disliked its bleakness, its barbarity and the strange, moody people it contained. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army She shivered as she gazed around upon the bleakness everywhere, perhaps largely accentuated by a gray, chilly morning of early spring, with the small patches of snow, left by winter, blackened and foul. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls But the renewed life of her voice faltered with the sudden realization of the other thing: of the bleakness of her future when he had gone, and suddenly she broke out in undisguised terror. The Tyranny of Weakness There, instead of bleakness and constant reproof, Lola found herself wrapped in an atmosphere of warmth and friendliness. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert If ever a man in public life in these United States was removed the distance of the antipodes from the coldness and bleakness of agnosticism, that man was Abraham Lincoln. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings At Ivry, we wound up a steep hill; the summit of which, a wide naked common, might match most parts of Dartmoor in height and bleakness. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 It suffices that they would all possess the essential elements of loneliness, bleakness and haunting terror. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story He came in, and wrapped me up in my ermine-trimmed cloak, warning me of exposing myself to the morning air, which was of wintry bleakness. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author In the winter bleakness a hunger for color came over people, like the Laplander’s craving for fats and sugar. My Ántonia But it was the Hebrides which, in their lonely grandeur and bleakness, affected him most of all. Story-Lives of Great Musicians And so Moussorgsky's music, with its poor and uncouth and humble tone, its revulsion from pride and material grandeur and lordliness, its iron and cruelty and bleakness, lay unknown and neglected in its snows. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers They had come from the land of bleakness and barrenness—from the place of leafless trees—into the region of Summer, almost in a day and night. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South As Cabot watched it, and vaguely wished for the power once given to Joshua, the bleakness of despair suddenly enfolded him, and his eyes became blurred with tears. Under the Great Bear Joyce, compelled by his delirious words and excitement, almost felt a responsive sympathy; but her words, slow and hard, brought her and Jared down to the bleakness of St. Angé again. Joyce of the North Woods Something of bleakness had crept into the prospect, its gay greenness was giving place to an austere pallor of tint, a dry economy of vegetation. The Emigrant Trail In the room there was scarcely any furniture, nothing to soften the appearance of bleakness. An Arkansas Planter During the time he had been on the hill he had lived over his life and he saw its bleakness, its emptiness, its mystery. The Boss of the Lazy Y Do we not almost rejoice to think that we ourselves shall not live to shiver in its bleakness? Platform Monologues Or they lingered on the portico, loath to part for the day, and never minded the bleakness of the weather, in the hope of meeting again. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 But his first words, too, were an order that she leave the room, and unable to combat his professional bleakness, meekly she had to obey. Then I'll Come Back to You The ocean was here in all its grandeur, yet there was no bleakness or bareness in these rock-bound shores, softly veiled in the haze of the October afternoon. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 And the bleakness of his thoughts reached the scout. Star Born In winter its bleakness and bareness add to the chill of the rigorous Iowa temperature, and in summer the sap oozing through the boards is disagreeably suggestive of perspiration. Prudence of the Parsonage The day was bleak, and something of this external bleakness was reflected in the look which he raised to the ivy draped dormer-windows in the hooded roof. The Miller Of Old Church They returned his gaze, the bleakness in their eyes matching his own. The Universe — or Nothing For Mr. Chesterton the bleakness is all on the side of the pagans, and the beauty with the idealists. Among Famous Books Feeling so secure and sheltered now, my thoughts went out to the unprotected of my sex cast among the evil and heartless, to fight their way purely amid bleakness and sin. Medoline Selwyn's Work There had been about her a bleakness of nature that effectually chilled any tender buds of liking or affection that might in the ordinary course of events have grown up and blossomed round her life. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 He lived again whole months of nights spent out alone beneath the sky, with the snow and the wind hurled down upon him from a merciless firmament of bleakness. The Furnace of Gold |
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