But I was impressed by the audacity of that bleakness.
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"There was the same bleakness, the disconnection," she has said.
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Harvey Dunn portrayed the bleakness of trench and tank warfare.
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Their appetite for escaping to bleakness will not be the same.
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It makes the scene of real bleakness that much more bleak.
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And yet, this bleakness must also be something of a defense.
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It's designed to be an immersive experience: "There's a bleakness in this post-apocalyptic land that mirrors the bleakness, maybe, in today's social climate," says Andrew H. Shirley, who created the film and organized the show.
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Toledo is honest, bogged down in bleakness and offset by snarky remarks.
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It's in the bleakness of figuring out where it needs to go.
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Despite the franchise's inescapable bleakness, this gives it a paradoxically hopeful edge.
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Works by György Ligeti and György Kurtág mixed bleakness with black humor.
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Atrocity Exhibition expresses a bleakness that Brown hasn't seemed to feel before.
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Heavy Rain, in its bleakness, paints a cruel picture of the world.
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These warming edible scents needn't be reserved for the bleakness of winter.
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The bleakness is leavened with uplifting episodes of resistance, devotion and faith.
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Despite the bleakness of our findings, solutions are not out of reach.
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It's just a bleak place, beset by an extra dose of Brexit bleakness.
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It's a fitting––and literally limitless––resource for Lustmord's brand of fuzzy bleakness.
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Before her there was only barrenness and bleakness—a scene totally without identity.
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The joy of A Series of Unfortunate Events is, in fact, its bleakness.
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The palette of dark green and pale, pinkish white conveys the scene's bleakness.
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Others shrugged off the bleakness with sardonic humor, as people here often do.
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For all its bleakness, The Running Man ultimately ends on a relatively positive note.
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The depiction of the self-deluded townsfolk has a faintly Eugene O'Neill-like bleakness.
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Don't we live in a country that can overcome the bleakness of this moment?
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Yet, beneath the bleakness, questions were being asked, hence the books: What is America?
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Despite the bleakness of the movie's themes, it has a tender strain of humor.
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What's most impressive about My Absolute Darling is how carefully it handles its bleakness.
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Berlin expertly balances beauty and bleakness, and finds drama, joy or revelation in humdrum experiences.
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Given its concept, you'd expect Three Billboards to be weighed down with its own bleakness.
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Straightforward bleakness in television is increasingly trite, which makes Reverie's apparent optimism fresh and timely.
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Those two episodes demonstrate the shows range from light to darkness, from hopefulness to bleakness.
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The bleakness of these black works may well have mirrored his return to depressive drinking.
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It's like those late Rothkos, there's variation in the bleakness, but it's still just unrelenting.
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So is the symbiotic bond that has protected them from the bleakness of their lives.
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In between Charlie Covell's droll dialogue and the oddly romantic plot, it is unremitting bleakness.
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Anecdotally, knee-jerk bleakness appears to be the hot new trend in climate non-activism.
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Tindering at work is amazing news if you enjoy the crushing emotional bleakness of late capitalism.
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The bleakness of dust and raw, red light seeps into your pores, the stillness is deafening.
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To raise ourselves from the bleakness of corruption that all had a hand in having caused
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But Ms. Pite's work also has an attitude, a kind of overwrought, pleased-with-itself bleakness.
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Beautifully and delicately crafted, they dance between presence and absence, grief and joy, bleakness and rejuvenation.
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Withdrawal is a soul-crushing feeling of bleakness, made even worse in people who already have depression.
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This week, in accordance with the bleakness of the storyline, the image was a blank, dingy white.
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My strategy of survival in our world of overwhelming bleakness is treating everything like a boss rush.
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I arrive in Katowice the day before COP24 started, touching down into a world of gray bleakness.
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As in The Wire, the bleakness of The Deuce is individual, interpersonal, and institutional all at once.
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For "Swamped," he fashioned a twilight experimentalism: a quickly changeable sound that stopped just short of bleakness.
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But he treats it not with sentimentality or exaggeration, but with uncompromising lucidity; hence its, well, bleakness.
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The scene is a little too joyful, but the Riverdale cast deserves some happiness in this bleakness.
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But the bleakness of this account is also tempered with the redemption that comes at the end.
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That bleakness is on display in the first photos from the series, which seem to prove Moss right.
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Sick days are like Halloween; days on which you can live and dress up wholly in life's bleakness.
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She has to exploit the opportunity of Trump's excessive bleakness without coming across as the least bit complacent.
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In our fixation on bleakness, we echo a deleterious conception of our humanity already rampant in the culture.
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It only makes sense that the first lady's Christmas decorations would match the bleakness of the Trump era.
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Our critic says the NBC show's optimism about human nature is refreshing in an era of artistic bleakness.
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But it mustn't play out its bleakness too soon or there's nothing to lose, and thus no drama.
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Not having the exact language for the bleakness I felt, I devoured Mansfield's words like thirst-quenching poison.
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Indeed, whereas Iowa is basically 100 percent arable, Utah with its cindery bleakness is only 3 percent arable.
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While certainly not metal, it contains enough isolation and bleakness to rival any later day basement black metal creation.
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What is this Cersei Lannister-like moment of borderline camp doing in the unrelenting bleakness of The Handmaid's Tale?
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As a singer, her sharp, enunciated, elongated syllables add a plaintive sweetness that matches the bleakness of the music.
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The Young Pope is also disjointed and absurd, its bleakness interspersed with symbolism so bombastic it generates unintentional laughs.
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Most beaten down by this bleakness is Hardy's much younger second wife, Florence Dugdale (he is 87, she 48).
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David Pountney's playful, buoyant production of "Das Rheingold" came as a relief after all the bleakness at the Met.
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But the noted bear at least found a sense of humor on Wednesday into which he could channel his bleakness.
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More potently, Metro again embraces his nearly avant-garde production side to properly convey the bleakness of 21's world.
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"'Sally4Ever' is the kind of comedy so dark it pushes straight through bleakness to a morality-play clarity," Poniewozik wrote.
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"At times, the commitment to bleakness feels artistically admirable," Teo Bugbee wrote in her review for The New York Times.
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This optimism lost much of its credibility as the '60s counterculture fizzled into paranoia and bleakness during the Nixon years.
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The U.N. called its own report "bleak," and I know that bleakness can often lead to a sense of hopelessness.
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If bleakness can be understated, then Burckhardt is the only photographer I know who can get us to that place.
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As in Time Bandits, where the final gag is that the protagonist's parents die, the laugh line is the sadistic bleakness.
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Tweets that kept hundreds of writers from filing stories on deadline and hundreds of reporters from the bleakness of the news.
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"When everything in your life is bleak, and you see someone writing lovingly about this bleakness," she added, "it's so legitimizing."
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The concrete bleakness of the area's run-down housing projects still brushes up, uneasily, against the new glass-fronted apartment complexes.
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In the hospital, a couple of days later, "once the adrenaline had worn off," Reus felt that familiar bleakness setting in.
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Autumn brings previews of the cold bleakness of the months ahead, and with it, time to work on one's inner life.
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But a bleak story that hangs around, even if the bleakness is small in scale, can also add to the public's misery.
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TC: I don't think it's ever been funny and that's what makes it seem like it's funny, the bleakness of it all.
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Iceland's vast bleakness (this show is set in a more rural area than Case) echoes the expanse of pain in his face.
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There's a real beauty about the bleakness and harshness of the desert which stands out as the true star of the video.
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Rather than use false optimism to temper broad strife, he concocted false bleakness to harness the loyalty of a narrow, embittered few.
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Browder was incarcerated at 16 in New York City, forced to experience the bleakness of a solitary cell, tortured with seeming impunity.
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Yet Ms. Birch's writing doesn't have the blasted-earth bleakness of work by Sarah Kane, one of the playwrights she most admires.
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He's less like Keats, say, than like Hardy, his near-contemporary, whose bleakness, both personal and poetic, at times outdoes even Housman's.
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It's a spot of humor in her bleak life, and in the unbearable bleakness of a war that's trying to exterminate you.
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This ad shows he can reduce his appeal to 30 seconds: 25 of bleakness, and five of "We will make America great again."
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Still, given the current sense of bleakness among many physicists in the absence of New Physics at the LHC, it's a welcome hint.
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In 2014, Scoota released "Bird Flu," a song about slinging drugs to rise above the poverty and bleakness commonly associated with Baltimore City.
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"I just don't agree with the characterization of the inaugural," he told one reporter who alluded to the bleakness of the earlier address.
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The words she managed to get out of prison described a place of bleakness but one that could not break the human spirit.
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In a league that is working its grim way through a depressive episode of its own, this still stands out for its bleakness.
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Directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, the movie uses vibrant, neon lights and moments of periodic, monochromatic bleakness to help tell the story.
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But eventually it gives way to bleakness, the lead guitar constantly pitching itself up, teetering on dissonance, flirting with chaos in its desperation.
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Bleakness is a hurdle for any dystopia, an imaginary society of the worst kind that articulates anxieties about the world we're in now.
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He also has some of the bleakness that's been central to the rise of 21 Savage, who raps with an almost gothic severity.
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The bleakness of her majors record was as much about her bad luck as any lack of talent or poise on the biggest stages.
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Four episodes into season 2, and the The Handmaid's Tale show no sign of ceasing the theme of unending bleakness established in season 1.
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The rolling drums and warm brass might be plushly uplifting like Sufjan at his perkiest, but all this belies the bleakness of these lines.
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A bleakness enveloped Winnipeg in a way that Lipman and the Thrashers' loyal knot of fans, if not Atlanta as a whole, could understand.
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Despite the bleakness of the title, this is heartbreak through Pional's lens, which crucially means stretches of luscious, infectious melody threaded through thick, robust grooves.
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Right now, it feels like social media is "in the bleakness of figuring out where it needs to go," Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says.
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That relief from bleakness may be a welcome change for some critics who thought Snyder's last DC superhero movie was too visually and tonally brooding.
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It took Merwin several volumes before arriving at a style barren and bleak enough to make his pronouncements on life's barrenness and bleakness feel persuasive.
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For weekenders faced with the anticipatory bleakness of Sundays as they contemplate the return trip to their primary homes, the short distance is a comfort.
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The truth is, I need to feel better about it, need to pretty up the bleakness and the association with disease that aloneness has assumed.
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You can make a tourtière well or badly and still succeed in delivering a handsome and satisfying meal, a balm against the bleakness of winter.
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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.
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Offsetting the hatred and bleakness are the luminous main characters: Nargis, Helen and Imran, for whom history, culture and religion are not circumscribed by hard boundaries.
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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.
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And because we are friends, we also talked about the mundane: music, books, NPR shows, anything to get his mind off the bleakness of solitary confinement.
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Corporate's bleakness won't be for everybody, but the show does its very best to give as many people as possible a window in to its horrors.
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But for me, watching generative and derivative nostalgia spar within it prompted a different sense of the familiar: bleakness about the future of mouse-eared entertainment.
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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.
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Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, illustrated by the brilliant Lisa Hanawalt, and airing on Netflix, "BoJack Horseman" is a world-creation show, merging bleakness and joy.
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They bounce off each other well, too, and their squabbly dynamic adds an occasional, much-needed touch of humour to the show's otherwise near-constant bleakness.
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Falco's annoyed that their friend might be dead, which is pretty funny, and Peppy's "Don't be dead, Slip," really adds to the comical bleakness of the situation.
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In collaboration with LLLL, U-Pistol, and Calendula, Meishi Smile made "Always," a gleaming ballad about maintaining relationships and having hope in the bleakness after the internet.
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And, indeed, the bleakness of Mr Macron's analysis is matched by an uncanny—and no doubt excessive—confidence in his own ability to do something about it.
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But where Mr. Jarmusch is a connoisseur of bleakness, Ms. Reichardt makes her artfully banal terrain of laundromats, convenience stores and cloverleaf highways seem brain-numbingly oppressive.
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Kendrick Lamar's positivity in the face of bleakness is admirable, but his ability to turn that attitude into art that continues to shake our paradigms is incredible.
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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.
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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.
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When I first saw "Thom Pain" at the tiny Soho Theater in London in 2004, its masochistic bleakness lingered on my skin afterward like a toxic slime.
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As a whole, Sirens possesses a duality, with despair and bleakness on one side, and positive action and hope for a better future on the other side.
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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.
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Though they lost November's elections at the federal level, Democrats who acknowledge the bleakness of their political situation say they will set themselves apart from the Trump administration.
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As the episode unfolds — embracing a bleakness unseen since Season 2's "LCD Soundsystem" — each scene brings more to light about the depth of Edgar's scarring from Iraq.
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But between all the bleakness, we thankfully get a little bit of hope seeing Moira, who now appears to be living a new and better life in Ontario.
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Their remote location breeds cultural disconnect, and the trio uses those feelings of isolation to cultivate a palpable sense of bleakness and desperation in their largely unpolished recordings.
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But without a millimeter of overreach, her movie convinces you that the dogs have kept these people away from overwhelming bleakness by also guiding them into the light.
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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.
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While I'm generally a fan of bleakness, I am also always looking for the way out of it; I want to at least fantasize about a good world.
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Though it's not the first to do so, the production on the album uses repetitive strands of melody to illustrate the bleakness and aggression of 21's outlook.
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I would never have discovered the brilliant and chaotic bleakness of the band Spell, for instance, if not for Ed Templeton's effortless part in Toy Machine's Good and Evil.
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Data from online travel agents, which analyse customers' searches and are thus privy to the most timely information on travel trends, are unanimous in the bleakness of their assessments.
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Actual amenities included hideous-looking food, tents built for refugees (full of soggy bedding due to a recent flood), and just an overall vibe of bleakness on a beach.
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Prodigy's approach to hip-hop had a parallel impact on the genre in the mid-1990s, its severe, unyielding bleakness an aesthetic avenue approached via reduction rather than amplification.
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The plainspokenness of his forms and the diluted acid of his palette — the colors of faded postcards — speak to working-class despair as indelibly as the bleakness of his imagery.
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The good news is that America already possesses vast sensor networks, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the harsh bleakness of space, capable of collecting the requisite information.
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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.
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And speaking of bleakness—don't not pick an Allies comrade to be executed (or are they, huh, huh?) by the game's Biggest of Big Bads, the scarred-up evildoer Deathshead.
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Writ large, the title implies a moral reckoning of sorts, a revaluation of the past via the material scarcity of the present — all amid the bleakness of a broken state.
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Her brother Zakary was only 4 when Gracyn was hospitalized with the neurological disorder, but he was deeply impacted by the bleakness faced by his sister and the other hospitalized children.
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Gibson's writing is exuberant, electric, and frank; this is a love letter, despite — despite the bleakness of late capitalism, the complicated pull of our many devices, our often terrifying political sphere.
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The band's sole output this year, the song "You Take Nothing," is devastatingly sad, and angry, and defiant; its understated power, aggressive fragility, and overwhelming bleakness exemplify the state of 2016.
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Suddenly, the bleakness transcended just, Everything is terrible, and moved into, When things get worse, what do we do—and I have two kids, how am I going to handle that?
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This sale embodied its own kind of bleakness — that of hollow consumer empowerment, of corporate pleas for relevance, of family members too unfamiliar to pick out the right pair of shoes.
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Over the course of a pair of full-lengths and a slew of collaborations, she's been able to wring the best bits of bleakness out of creeping noise and industrial structures.
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At a lean four minutes, the video is a brief but entertaining primer on the self-evident awesomeness of rockets, laced with just the right amount of bleakness and profanity. Enjoy.
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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.
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Sally4Ever is the kind of comedy so dark it pushes straight through bleakness to a morality-play clarity: It's an unflattering, fluorescent light on the manifestations of human self-interest and weakness.
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There's never been a better time for comic-book shows on TV—but in an age where "quality TV" increasingly means "conflicted antihero," most of those shows are an exercise in bleakness.
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With an ending like that, and the experiences I had peppered in the middle, I feel like the right amount of melancholy and the exact dash of bleakness happened in Disco Elysium.
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The first season garnered a lot of attention for its bleakness and its performances (Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson starred) but faltered in the second, which starred Rachel McAdams and Colin Farrell.
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I will also provoke their fans into sending me a bunch of mean messages on [SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM], which will make me feel a little less [WORD CONVEYING A SENSE OF BLEAKNESS].
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I didn't know where I was going, and I really understood what bleakness was for the first time: winter in Prague with no friends, no money, no job, just trying to survive.
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With few exceptions, we (I am no less guilty than anyone else) seem to have decided that despair, alienation and bleakness are the most meaningful, and interesting, descriptors of the human condition.
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On Amity, he pushes both into outright bleakness—with the Alice Glass-featuring "Eat Me Alive," on which the ex-Crystal Castles singer screams over grayscale ambience—and into more colorful realms.
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With characteristic Porpentine bleakness, in howling dogs, you're only ever escaping physical imprisonment into emotional or spiritual imprisonment; the fantasy of escape, and thus the fantasy of just imprisonment, is repeatedly annihilated.
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We chatted to some of the people who've put their jobs on the line to fight for higher wages and more rights, to try and find some hope in all this bleakness.
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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.
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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.
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Letty — a young woman from Virginia, new to the windblown bleakness of Texas, pressurized into marriage with one man, raped by another (whom she murders), maddened by the wind — suffers and protests.
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The Jailer (the bass-baritone Eric Owens drawing upon the most gravelly qualities of his powerful voice) arrives, sputtering commands at the prisoners amid muttered comments on the cold bleakness around him.
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"Entropy" (season 2063, episode 2053) "Entropy" is a rare season six respite, a calm between the bleakness of the "Smashed"/"Wrecked" era and the horror of "Seeing Red" and all that follows.
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"Sally4Ever" is the kind of comedy so dark it pushes straight through bleakness to a morality-play clarity: It's an unflattering, fluorescent light on the manifestations of human self-interest and weakness.
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Perhaps more properly titled The Snowmen (there are lots), the movie leans hard on its snowy scenery, shot in a weirdly blue-lit manner, to sell a feeling of bleakness and despair.
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But this aural wallpaper only underscores the bleakness of the lives unraveling in the staff rooms and loading docks of the non-unionized Berry's, where a typical salary is $5 an hour.
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The tragic is there, and then it's gone, and then it's back again, a 24-hour news cycle of bleakness and burlesque, and a mottled affirmation of life as we now know it.
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Despite the sci-fi elements it probably has more in common with the drizzle-soaked bleakness of The Killing than it does with the Duffer Brothers' nostalgic love letter to the horror genre.
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The film, directed by Sébastien Laudenbach, is decidedly not for children, but it is a fable, and it's elegantly told through spare, stylized drawings that soften its bouts of bleakness without erasing them.
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He has engaged in fake outreach to African-American voters, feeding his nearly all-white crowds a healthy diet of the most pernicious stereotypes about the horror and unremitting bleakness of black life.
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And though he disliked for his thoughts to bend this way, he felt the bleakness might be down to Lindsay: her disruption of the delicate ecology that had already gelled before she arrived.
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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.
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But the bleakness of the scenes Mr. Lupa has adapted from "The Trial" (parts of the original plot are omitted) would have been more digestible if it weren't for the production's middle part.
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"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.
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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.
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It seems that it's in our very nature as humans to seek out consciousness-modifying experiences, and too much time facing the bleakness of existence head on can be a lot to deal with.
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This offering from Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words gives a more direct and beautiful approach to a hazy, suicidal bleakness that has become the bread and butter of Trepaneringsritualen's more rhythmic industrial approach.
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Especially here in Canada, we've been taught for generations that our reward for surviving the soul-crushing bleakness of winter is that brief, blissful respite that summer brings to our cruel and brutal lives.
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Not all of the new episodes end happily, but in general, the show's penchant for bleakness seems to have lifted (or perhaps it was simply channeled into "Bandersnatch"), leaving room for more emotional complexity.
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Far from the happy escapism of its early years, the game is now about the unrelenting bleakness of our existence, making you confront the harshest of realities and the most monstrous of human fears.
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The self-conscious bleakness and attempts at timelessness can seem a little forced, as if they are mostly intended to give the impression of depth and to distinguish the book from more commercial novels.
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Since his full-length 2010 debut, Unapologetic Art Rap, he's been a proud hip-hop outsider, an erudite, free-form comedian who can cut into searing injustice and bleakness in the middle of a punchline.
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That's the broad canvas upon which more detailed strokes are applied: Fenix's leader, Lieutenant Minh Young Kim, is murdered by General RAAM before the first act is even over, hammering home the bleakness before you.
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It feels like an echo of the honest feelings MAY wants to evoke, drawing warmth out of bleakness, finding comfort in the arms of strangers, tenderness in pixel arrays at the end of the world.
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As far as the deep bleakness of the book, it's in there, but I think there is a brand of gallows humor present as well, the kind that maybe helps sustain people through tough times.
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They know that there's nothing readers like more than a scandal, they know just the angle to put on it, and in the case of News Shopper, it's a special blend of bleakness and mundanity.
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Created by Jesse Armstrong, a writer for The Thick of It and In the Loop, the show is characterized by cynical bleakness and an ability to inspire real pity (read: not sympathy) for these squabbling fools.
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He's a monster as toadying official, and the scenes in which he does walk-and-talks through hallways in which people are being tortured and killed offer a singularly hilarious bleakness — brutality turned into bureaucratic mundanity.
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As in her 2016 opera "Breaking the Waves," Ms. Mazzoli conjures bleakness with an uncanny, confident mixture of instrumental savagery and eerie lightness, as when a moody orchestral storm recedes into the glassy drone of harmonicas.
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But where others often shot only the blight, Mr. Rosenthal usually made people the central element of any picture, emphasizing both the human impact of the conditions and the human spirit that survived amid the bleakness.
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For me, nothing in season two of this show reached the heights of the stark, searing bleakness of the first three episodes of season one — but overall, this season is a lot smoother and more consistent.
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Again, there's a certain bleakness to Scandinavian cinema that has produced some terrific movies and TV shows (particularly in the noir-ish crime vein), but those elements seldom work as well when reconstituted for U.S. consumption.
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"At the end of the war, various utility systems, marginal at best, failed completely during the winter, adding to the bleakness of existence in the mud-street and duckboard reservation," the anonymous author of the report notes.
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There are actually glimpses of that bleakness in the terror on Art3mis's face as she's dragged off to the same corporate indentured servitude in which her father died, trying to work off debt he could never clear.
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I've decided that instead of giving into the bleakness of each episode, I'm just going to laugh at all the chaos and assume that there's gonna be some big reveal at the end that saves them all.
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The past few years have brought folksy screeching, glacial silences, drawling speech, powdery bleakness and spiritual solemnity; last year, a keening Ethiopian folk song was tricked out with an avant-garde mixture of yelps, croaks and hums.
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Yet, magically, even as he trashed each opportunity, the series didn't bog down in bleakness: it was sympathetic to BoJack's depression and the sources of his pain, but it didn't glamorize his solipsism as a special sensitivity.
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When Sholette depicts the protests at Standing Rock in dark tones, the intent is not only to acknowledge the bleakness — it's also to celebrate activists as hidden forces operating in the dark, making a big difference anyway.
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George Shaw is known for his small, modestly observed representations of suburban and rural landscapes around Britain in Humbrol enamel paint, more commonly used by model-makers, capturing a peculiar British charm in their quietness and occasional bleakness.
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But nothing compares to the intense viral bleakness of Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy, by Cumbria University professor Jem Bendell, a 2018 paper that Bendell self-published after an academic journal declined to publish it.
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The best Black Mirror episodes (like its infamous first episode, "The National Anthem," which turned out to be startlingly true to life) are shocking not because of their bleakness but because they go places you can barely imagine.
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For maximum bleakness, watch this, move straight onto Endgame, sit through the oppressive grief of the survivors and haunting images of a shut-down, decimated New York, then switch it off at the beginning of the rat scene.
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Mr. Pelly, the conductor Corrado Rovaris and the singers take this melodrama, about a troubled young woman whose love for a family enemy sends her toward homicide, deadly seriously, setting it in a snowy landscape of carceral bleakness.
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Like much of season six, the execution is not exactly subtle or nuanced, but the idea is solid, and it's a relief to have a little light in the show after episode on episode of bleakness and pain.
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You can always escape February bleakness by enjoying music or dance, but how often are the tunes remixed from the calls of endangered animals, or the moves made by a plumage-challenged bird trying to attract a mate?
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The bleakness inherent to this idea — humanity will ignore its own "children" while seeking questions that have either no answers or inherently disappointing ones, because the universe is vast and incomprehensible — is the stuff of great science fiction.
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But perhaps no episode captures this divide between the show's inherent bleakness and its insistence that, no, it's having a great time than "The Tragedy," a spot-on satire of an era when bad news lurks around every corner.
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Those small segments not only help to break up the bleakness, they ground what could have been an abstract big picture allegory about the opioid crisis, the debate over healthcare, and the people left behind without a safety net.
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High-Functioning Flesh—the Los Angeles-based, synth-worshipping duo of Gregory Vand and Susan Subtract—have spent the past three years crafting a uniquely mutilated take on EBM's stark electronics, and today they return with even more bleakness.
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And while later albums Intimacy, Four and Hymns don't shy away from those themes or flourishes, they somehow don't capture that same restlessness, that same headrush-y hybrid of bleakness and euphoria that those first two manage so effortlessly.
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If younger women find less in Mother's exuberance than they did in Men's bleakness, it's because the gulf between here and where we were never looks as wide as the gap between here and where we hope to arrive.
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Given that real-world women are now frequently dressing in the show's signature red dresses and white bonnets to protest abortion restrictions passing around the country, the unrelenting brutality and bleakness in Handmaid's Tale felt too real to be entertainment.
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Though it acknowledges the bleakness and desperation of Mildred's case—at one point she contemplates setting fire to the police station as a symbolic gesture—it suggests that she is only a hero when she is pursuing solutions, not destruction.
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Where The Force Awakens usually moved too quickly to deal with the bleakness of its core conceit (which saw the Rebellion undermined, then nearly wiped out, and its heroes scattered), The Last Jedi actually embraces a sense of futility and defeat.
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An Oklahoman who was part of the Kiowa tribe, Redbird's drawings and paintings showed the beauty and breadth of Native American culture from the vast bleakness of the Comanche in the snow to cultural symbols such as the eagle and pottery.
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There's a bleakness in imagining Drake, alone in his spacious mansion, surrounded by his possessions but unable to perform a fundamental cool task, and so desperate for someone to teach him that he enlists the help of a young stranger.
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Despite the bleakness, this 21-square-mile reserve, established by the Chilean government in 22, teems with wildlife: hares, tuco-tucos (mole-like rodents), skunks, armadillos, gray foxes, pumas, guanacos, lizards and dozens of species of birds unique to Patagonia.
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Donald Ray Pollock, a prominent author and Ohio State alumnus who has written about the bleakness of life in a southern Ohio village, pointed to recent changes in the creative writing program as a sign of the university's skewed priorities.
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For all of the bleakness of Veronica's final section, "The back of the future" — "The future is back and it is / ungovernable // It's back and it sucks / Just as I've been told" — one senses that Hunt is at base an optimistic poet.
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It's not a bad song, as Billy Joel's touristic Songs Of The Working Class efforts go, although the bleakness of post-industrial Northeast ennui starts dragging you down even before the guitar riffs and literal steel mill sound effects come into play.
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"A lot of programs we have cater to children — they're still coming up and there's still hope for them — but there's a bleakness and a sense of hopelessness that sometimes people take on in the shelter" as adults, Ms. Hall-Tompkins said.
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They're romantic and cinematic in a way that can only come fully-formed from the West Coast – splashes of pop sheen, but without being too sickly or clinical; tinges of melancholia, but without the bleakness present in the music of colder, faster cities.
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Her sound fits into the new genre of Spotify "streambait," defined by Liz Pelly, writing for the Baffler, as "mid-tempo, melancholy pop," influenced by Lana del Rey, whose "singing style and that bleakness, and the hip-hop influenced production" shaped a new aesthetic.
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Before "Avengers: Infinity War" had been in theaters even a full day, a barrage of post-review think pieces appeared discussing and dissecting the bleakness, most of them dutifully adorned with warnings not to read any further if you wanted to preserve your innocence.
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The show's rural bleakness often feels more like the first season of True Detective than Stranger Things, and, like True Detective, its creep factor is rooted more deeply in weird fiction and surreal horror than in sci-fi tropes and a sense of adventure.
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To give just a taste of why Metrograph is calling British bleakness baron Alan Clarke's film "one of the most important British features of the last 35 years," Kino Lorber provided Creators with an exclusive clip containing the first three minutes of the film.
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But Evan was here all the time: in the new, elaborate recipes she tried on weekends, in the vases of flowers she placed around the house to combat bleakness, in the hollow voice of the guided-meditations app that brought her little reprieve from heartache.
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The bleakness of nihilism seems like an odd theme for an exhibition, let alone a biennial featuring the work of over 60 artists, but the team behind art book publisher Endless Editions has done precisely that for the 2016 edition of their Endless Biennial.
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Big city artists and artisans and a rumored hipster hotel chain are coming, they always are — the ones with the means to put Wonder Valley and Twentynine Palms on the map, the people who will harness the weirdness and bleakness for their own aesthetic.
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There is an immediate reader need here too: We need someone to process and evaluate our political and cultural moment, but it should be someone who is unflinching in the face of bleakness and has great reservoirs of interest in and knowledge of the past.
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Grime's magnum opus—15 tracks weaved together by a prodigy, loaded with dystopian production and a bottled bleakness that documented an east London long lost and never returning; an east London now forever tied to the nostalgia of youth and the passages he once wrote.
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He's fooling around (and undoubtedly, posing for the camera), but it's clear that the games children play in such places are darker than elsewhere, a reflection of their grim lives, but also a welcome reminder that even within bleakness, there are moments of spiritedness and play.
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But World War II took him from that bleakness to a submarine in the South Pacific, and then the Korean War took him back to Asia for a second time, then a stint in San Francisco in the early 1003s before marrying my mother in 1955.
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In this particular sequence, a voice over of Ellen reciting passages from The Conference of the Birds in her hypnotic and equally melodic Detroit dialect, amplified a sonic trans-dimensional tone to the bleakness of the domestic tension in the Antonioni scene, and instilled Monica Vitti's blank expression with cosmic mystery.
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Right now, popular culture is in love with all that is wholesome: cute animal pictures, wholesome memes, wholesome movies, the general idea of friends being nice to each other, and just about anything that might give us a rest from the unending bleakness and horror of these, Our Troubled Times.
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The brief running time of Phillip Youmans's debut feature is, in a way, an act of mercy; it is a story of such bleakness and melancholy, of so many lives in various states of distress and despair, that to dig in longer might be more than some viewers can bear.
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The brief running time of Phillip Youmans's debut feature is, in a way, an act of mercy; it is a story of such bleakness and melancholy, of so many lives in various states of distress and despair, that to dig in longer might be more than some viewers can bear.
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And Henry Adams, who wrote within earshot of power his dyspeptic chronicle of failure and disappointment, suggested to Lowell how "his and our manic-depressive New England character" might be projected onto landscape and history, in the way that the region's extremes of bleakness and abundance were internalized as emotional poles.
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You'd think something that dark might herald a sense of overall bleakness, but as written by Ward and Thomas and acted by the fantastic Debra Lawrance, the story of Rose's bipolar disorder benefits from just as much care and attention to detail as any one of Josh and Tom's inside jokes.
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" In the 1960s, the soap opera "Coronation Street" depicted Manchester as a place of cloth caps and cobbled streets, and by the late 1970s, as the city's industries disappeared and bands like the Smiths and Joy Division documented the bleakness, the music writer Paul Morley believed it a "very boring place to be.
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The titular "war" in question refers to the ongoing post-apocalyptic struggle between the apes and the humans to regain and retain some semblance of control over the state of the world—a bleak concept, and big-budget Hollywood films have certainly been in no short supply of bleakness as of late.
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Juxtaposing icy bleakness — a length of police tape and streaks of blood are the few colors in an ocean of gray — against the golden hues of an aspirational society, Mr. Zvyagintsev captures the devastating emotional violence inflicted by one generation on the next amid reports of war in Ukraine and a pending apocalypse.
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D. Curtis co-translated "Doppelgänger" with Hawkesworth.) Drndic is often described as a blend of Beckett (for the bleakness and rhythms), W.G. Sebald (the reliance on photographs and interest in historical amnesia) and Thomas Bernhard (first-rate misanthropy), but these sorts of comparisons do nothing to convey the singular experience of reading her work.
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Other prominent artists from various genres who collaborated in the mid-1900s included Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam, whose 1941 book, "12 Million Black Voices," depicted the lives of black citizens in the 1930s, and James Baldwin and Richard Avedon, who produced a photography book, "Nothing Personal," with text condemning the bleakness of life in 1960s America.
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CD: Well, I've actually once cycled all the way from Hong Kong to Vietnam throughout Southern China going through all of the major manufacturing cities, and what I saw was just overwhelming pollution – grayness, bleakness, polluted rivers, the scale of manufacturing, the color of people's faces and the misery of the people that I would pass on my bicycle, (while) cycling through China.
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Schroeder's approach is calm, almost detached, in keeping with his other work (although the choice of de Medeiros to speak for Buddhism, and with a nonspecific Asian-seeming accent at that, struck me as an avoidable misstep); this makes the bleakness of what he recounts (which is buttressed by an insinuatingly menacing score by Jorge Arriagada) that much more resonant.
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A poem entitled "If They Gun Me Down" by Daniel J. Watts, a Walker collaborator and Hamilton star, presented alongside Walker's objects, aims to capture the bleakness of the representation of black life by the media, even in death: If they gunned me down would the media paint a picture of a poet or would I be politically portrayed as a perilous person with potential to be a paraphernalia pushing pistol popping pilferer?
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He can't be there for me anymore, and it's not enough for me now to only love him for the past life we shared together Last month, after years of seeing him between four cold walls—badly painted to hide their bleakness—in a room where your own voice is drowned out in a sea of others, a new chapter began: He obtained a conditional, temporary release into the open air, one which will allow our family to spend entire days with him.
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Though Rizzla admits that part of the process of making the record was ultimately refining these tracks to draw them a little closer to the dancefloor, tracks like "Inquisition" bubble over and out of the gridlike arrangements that club music tends to favor, throwing sounds into every margin, scribbling into any blank space The focus is as much on the way all of these piese mesh texturally, and the overall atmosphere they evoke—largely one of bleakness and chaos—than on the emotional effects of any specific element.
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There has been a recent surge in popularity of science fiction in the Arab world; in addition to the work of Larissa Sansour, there's been Hassan Blasim's projected futuristic anthology "Iraq +100," Sophia Al Maria's video work "The Gaze of Sci Fi Wahabi" (2008), the panels on science fiction held at Arabic cultural festivals, and the rediscovery of 20th-century Arabic science fiction, which all point to a larger trend: It is not that Arabs want to escape the bleakness of a present fraught with violence and horror; instead, they are driven by the irresistible desire to imagine the unlikeliest futures when the present is collapsing under its own weight — to be at home in the future, to inhabit its borders, and be nurtured by its possibilities.
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