The future looks bleak but she reckons without teenage daughter Sorrel's last-ditch attempts to save them both. |
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Siannodelli entered, wrapped in a cloak and carrying a bag, her expression so bleak and reminiscent of her mother that the bard panicked. |
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There is a picture, in my mind, of an impossibly long, steep path up a bleak peak rising Golgotha-like above a fold of green hills. |
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On a bleak wintry day, how we could improve our lot if we could just adjust the colour and brightness of the world that swirls around us. |
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In the wintry rain, it feels bleak, but today it was bathed in summer light and it felt like a really good place to be. |
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But he was stuck, following her eyes as the smile left her face and she looked into the distance with a bleak expression. |
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It is a bleak wintry scene as an SUV makes its way down an unpaved road to a rural village. |
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Although somewhat bleak, it is a graceful affair, lovingly crafted, deeply felt, and spiked with mordant cleverness. |
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We talk a little bit about the ways in which her rather bleak view of the world has been coloured by her first-hand experiences of mortality. |
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The weather was cool, grey and moist, and the scenery pretty bleak, but spectacular nonetheless. |
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She was the illegitimate daughter of a maid and was brought up in Paris in bleak and unaffectionate circumstances. |
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In her Traver installation, an unclimbable staircase led to an unopenable door in a black-painted room, with perhaps bleak implications. |
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Slowly, holding her breath, feeling her stomach turn with bleak expectations, she walked across the room to the operating slab. |
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With no money, job, or permanent address, the future looked bleak for Lisa and baby Nicole. |
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Millions of young, often well educated people are unemployed and face a bleak future. |
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It is unfathomable for the human mind to perceive a total void, bleak and empty to all meaning and organization. |
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Paul's wonderfully bleak voice hinted at the band's as yet unfathomed depths and danger just beneath the surface. |
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The landscape was still lofty and steep but had mellowed from bleak, high Andes to dense, lush cloud forest. |
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Given this bleak fiscal climate, these unfunded and underfunded mandates are irresponsible. |
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The landscape is dark and bleak, with just atmospheric grey sketches of trees or structures. |
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I decided that the movie, no matter how bleak and hopeless it may seem, is ultimately about redemptive hope, albeit a twisted one at that. |
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It's a bleak view proposed by the Dardennes, and one that flies in the face of old homilies about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. |
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Scorsese recreates New York of 150 years ago, which looks and feels like a vintage, bleak Dickensian landscape, only more depressing. |
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If you read their stories, they are almost uniformly bleak, with stories of unrelieved violence and horrific choices. |
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Its tracks lent his street a bleak aspect unrelieved by the plain Californian bungalows opposite of Loftus Crescent. |
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For various reasons, those foods rich in saturated fat offer compensations in a bleak world. |
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This bleak picture goes unreported because journalists are rarely seen there. |
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The film has surprising warmth, with characters who muddle through increasingly bleak circumstances as humanely as they can. |
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Although the future appears bleak, the opportunity is there to make a fresh start. |
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Its hills may seem bleak, unclothed as they are by acres of trees, uncapped by ice, unswathed by snow. |
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He creates bleak snowscapes peopled by groups of disconsolate figures, dispersing and recombining. |
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To see heroes of Paragon City in real life is to see a bleak view of an all cosplay future. |
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This gives his music a totally unique touch and contributes to the general bleak atmosphere. |
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She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys. |
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The 11 tracks on his 12 th album plod soddenly, leaden of pace and bleak of atmosphere. |
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I don't claim that professional investors always get it right, as the nether reaches of unit-trust league tables bear bleak testimony. |
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For a glimpse of the not-so-distant past, you have only to cross one of the huge, bleak avenues that circles the Old Town. |
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Despite the planet's bleak look, our surveyor scouts believe there is breathable air there. |
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The daughter did the best she could, trudging womanfully along until she came to a bleak desert land. |
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The film is shot in an authentic manner, with the cinematography bleak and dark, much like its setting. |
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Chelsea's training ground at Harlington in west London is a bleak, soulless place. |
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Stark, bleak, wintry urban landscapes convey the soullessness of Middle America's existence and family life. |
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The Big Caff, despite the promotional puff was actually quite small and bleak. |
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That future may seem bleak if you don't look good in spangled bustiers and hot pants. |
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I like comedy and I like bleak, but the mixture is like someone alternately shoveling ice cream and steak into my mouth. |
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A second bypass wasn't possible and his future looked bleak, not to mention short. |
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The film clearly states a bleak depiction of man versus machine in the not too distant future. |
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She let it fall to the floor with a squish, and pressed on into the bleak shadows. |
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But perhaps the greatest beneficiary of all has been the Irish half-bred mare whose future in the mid-1900s looked extremely bleak. |
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Today, although the country is picking up the pieces and starting over, the job market is still depressingly bleak. |
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The two scenes matched in the bleak, depressing colour, but after that, they were a world apart. |
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Just when the situation looked bleak, artisans found that there was a lucrative domestic market for all kinds of handicrafts. |
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The long-term projection for people with paranoid personality disorder is bleak. |
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The fallout of this situation is pretty bleak, but rescuable I think, if those involved are able to put the time in. |
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Le Corbusier's raw, almost bleak church at La Tourette is, for all its poverty, an undeniable house of God. |
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In the olden days on St Kilda and at several bleak rocky points east, tenacious hunters would dangle off perilous cliffs to catch their harvest. |
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The world wakens from the bleak harshness of winter and once more fills with warmth and new life. |
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This is a grim, bleak little movie with precious little emotion to it and a real sense of oppression. |
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To appreciate the revival, you must buy into James Goldman's book, which is peddling a panoramically bleak take on marriage. |
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Compounded by frost damage in following years, some farmers had resigned themselves to not planting a crop because of the bleak conditions. |
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But Barnes has produced a bleak and profound meditation on love and loss from an ostensibly banal premise. |
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But it would be a bleak loss to literature if she were to cast aside her magic rod and end her revels too early. |
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Lack of sun in the later part of the day is why winter is so famously bleak at high latitudes. |
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This is a bleak and brooding song yet the uplifting outro give a sense of hope for the flawed central character. |
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A visit and a cheery chat with someone will bring in life and sunshine and make a bleak day pass quickly. |
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In the Middle Ages vineyards flourished on this bleak Castilian plateau and cellars were hollowed out of the limestone under the town. |
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It was what seemed to be another bleak, sunless and chill winter morning in Moscow. |
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The fans that have supported him during the recent bleak seasons deserved to be rewarded by a further six months. |
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It's a fairly startling projection of a future that's looking increasingly bleak for newspaper classifieds. |
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The day-to-day experiences of persons who are prostituting themselves are equally bleak. |
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Through the bleak winter months they travailed, lifting their fitness levels to unprecedented levels and inspirited their collective resolve. |
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The bleak landscape is shaped by a series of cliffs, terraces and expanses of limestone pavement, with little else to punctuate the view. |
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They assign him to a bleak Romanian province called Transylvania, where vampires have been menacing a village in the shadow of a brooding castle. |
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As the sun sets on a bleak plain in the arid Karoo region, the temperature plummets to below freezing. |
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In this bleak midwinter, no art looks ahead to the New Year with less confidence than orchestral concerts. |
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This was a stark, bleak space, with dirt on the floor, steel girders and barred-up windows and tubes of neon lights. |
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The film is so bleak and depressing that I find it a bit difficult to assess its quality. |
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The landscape is unremittingly bleak, filled with dashed hopes, destroyed lives, and loveless relationships. |
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Instead it's just dark bleak noir, set in a fictional city filled with scumbags, lowlifes, and of course, beautiful women. |
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If the seasonal pattern is fulfilled then we can look forward to the following lowlights of a very bleak winter season. |
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A few years ago, I was sitting with a tableful of artists who agreed to an equally bleak, and equally wrong, assessment of art. |
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It might have been a rather bleak and drizzly evening when the madcap group exploded on stage, fronted by the eccentric Anthony Kiedis. |
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Parking my car, I gaze over the bleak wooded Borderlands, and munch a pink saveloy. |
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While that's technically correct, it should be noted that this is a bleak comedy. |
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Bausch is German in portraying a prevailingly grim, bleak view of the world, and of relations between the sexes. |
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Seven miles of bleak shoreline separate Cobra Mist and the gaunt Martello tower at Shingle Street. |
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The marchers join a swelling youth protest movement as many face a bleak future. |
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The outlook is bleak for children born extremely premature according to a new British study. |
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Its bald expanse colonized by a single stubby tree, the narrow courtyard has the bleak and slightly disturbing aura of a de Chirico painting. |
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So what does 2000 offer the mid-market fashion retail sector after another bleak Christmas marked by early sales notices? |
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When York kicked off by booting the ball straight out and then giving away a first-minute penalty for offside, things looked bleak. |
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The resulting music maintains a neoclassic style without falling victim to its bleak landscape. |
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The trees are bare, the land is bleak, closed, unproductive and numb, its furrows seemingly incapable of the new life we hope for in the spring. |
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The morning sun appeared above the Afghan village, the rays of golden light reaching out across the bleak and barren landscape. |
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The place was barren and bleak, and as far as she could see it was devoid of any inhabitants. |
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It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing. |
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Often times, the landscapes are bleak in the grayish washed out world of factories or barren landscapes of the indigenous lifeforms. |
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The polls paint a bleak pre-election picture for the Executive, particularly on policies that matter to Labour. |
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It was a rainy, bleak, and dark midsummer night, when nobody dared even to step through the door. |
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For folks of my political persuasion, last year ended on a very bleak note. |
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As we meandered towards the shoreline, my heart weighed heavy as the reality of my future appeared bleak. |
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Facing a bleak future of dispossession and impoverishment, they had appealed to the Supreme Court in a final desperate throw of the dice. |
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It's indescribably powerful, immeasurably beautiful and sempiternally bleak. |
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The film's grainy, bleak look is joined to suffocating dramatic situations in which the actors emote without restraint. |
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And as for the nation, Australia's economic performance looks healthy when homes grow like toadstools, and bleak when the boom subsides. |
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The silkscreen prints command a beefy price, but the book's meat is the bleak, brilliant comic at its centre. |
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He thinks about this a moment and then issues a bleak verdict on the drug-policing system in which he's toiled for the past 25 years. |
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And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak. |
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Recognising this, he chose to arrive in midwinter when Venice is cold, wet and magnificently, beautifully bleak. |
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It is a bleak, formally furnished room, with large gold-framed photographs of kings and queens on the walls. |
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And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields. |
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Exhaustion, heat rash and blisters, yet on she walked, exerting mind over matter, through the bleak and desolate Sahara Desert. |
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Most of the other top placed anglers struggled for tiny dace, roach, bleak and chub. |
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Though they are not inflammatory, the news articles do paint a bleak picture. |
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Dashed upon a bleak, inhospitable and unfortunately uninhabited shore, the five shipwrecked souls were faced with extinction if not rescued. |
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Each song delivers short, thudding, dirge-like rock with the same bleak atmosphere. |
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Withdrawing from the banquet and watching others move chess pieces was more compatible with his bleak mood. |
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Many say they face a bleak summer after the cancellation of a string of agricultural shows across the county. |
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Loss of high paying jobs across the US is now an indisputable fact, with many workers facing a bleak future. |
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His motives are impure but his impact is the equivalent of warming sunshine after a bleak winter of bitter darkness. |
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If this is the case, then the future for the modern idea of the university and its associated elitism looks bleak. |
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If the economic outlook seems bleak, investors should be ready to unload cyclicals before these stocks tumble and end up back where they started. |
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In winter, Moscow is a cold, bleak place that gives rise to the almost national costume of fur coat and hat and sturdy boots. |
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Our UN vehicle travelled along a barren and bleak landscape to reach the town from Sofia. |
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The bleak but groundbreaking Irish playwright was obsessive about how his works should be presented. |
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And yet, amid this bleak landscape, there is talk of a new St. Bernard, rising from the mud. |
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He described the desert as so bleak and empty that travelers stacked up bones as landmarks. |
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You make a commitment to build a new world that is more fruitful and less bleak and barren than the desert of the past. |
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They also give him room to create bleak landscapes that mirror the morality of the tales. |
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With nothing but miles of open, bleak desert ahead of her, she battled mind over matter to reach the end of a gruelling 160 km trip. |
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But after three years of drought and little prospect that this year's rains will arrive in mid-April, the scene in Gode and other zones is bleak. |
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The Norwegian lieutenant was a national hero, known to everyone, even in this bleak area. |
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It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass. |
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The retail park is rather bleak and bare still, and there's a deal of construction going on. |
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Winter for Kiev's waifs and strays is a cold, bleak daily battle for survival. |
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He now lives alone in a one-bedroom flat on a bleak housing estate in Stranraer, Wigtownshire. |
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Chris decided to change careers because changing market conditions meant bleak times for many producers. |
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It is a bleak suite of secure rooms, with bullet-proof doors and walls up to six feet thick. |
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As there are hardly any congregants in the bleak church, and these include only some of the central characters, this seems a strange device. |
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There are moments that will break your heart with their grim, bleak realism. |
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It seemed so hard to believe that anyone so accustomed to such accommodations could possibly live in the dark bleak castle of Amedon. |
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His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power. |
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A bleak account of a nuclear attack on Kent and its aftermath, mixing drama with documentary styles. |
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During the winter, its southerly location guarantees warm weather and sunshine when our own more northerly climes turn bleak. |
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Isolated in a bleak house in the midst of a desolate, frozen landscape, Conradin finds himself unable to adjust to his aunt's harsh regime. |
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They were ushered into a huge bleak room with some chairs, a bar with food and drinks, and a big-screen television. |
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The painting becomes a study of a rather bleak room illuminated by indirect light that barely enables us to make out the art on the walls. |
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Why a team with two Olympians couldn't find the moxie to pull out an important win was a mystery inside the Storm's bleak locker room. |
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Usually at this time of year, we'd be enjoying the bleak weather for its freshness and clarity. |
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He had been entrapped in this dark and bleak prison for years, and it was only recently that he had been able to escape its bars. |
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It is a bleak, imposing and foreboding building, made of huge blocks of black stone. |
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The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle. |
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Our weather was bleak, and in the US the climate was no better, the gloom reflecting the mood of the nation. |
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Without warning rain began to come down in sheets, blanketing the world in a bleak fog. |
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It left the punters with a warm glow to accompany them as they made their way in the evening's bleak weather. |
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There are still months of bleak weather stretching out ahead without a glimmer of anything to look forward to, and festive cheer has up and left. |
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She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another. |
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Our host, Mr Barelli, greeted us in out of the bleak rain as he greets everyone at his restaurant. |
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The cold and bleak winter weather all add up to us feeling grumpy and miserable. |
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We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape. |
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Although the weather on Friday was bleak, Bob assured me that Saturday would be great. |
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In that absence, he has remained silent, and this squalid pair will go down as mere footnotes of our collective bleak history. |
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So intense was the pain in this instance that I passed out on that cold, bleak Ann Arbor afternoon. |
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The stories have a raw texture that lays bare the rather bleak emotional life of her repressed, and repressive environment. |
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January was dimming into the equally cold, bleak abyss of New England weather that was February. |
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There was little vegetation and a bleak wind blew down from the snows of the high passes. |
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They fear that in the bleak weather, householders may want to take advantage of any offer to remove overgrown trees or shrubs. |
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Out of Germany for 3 years, they returned to find the bleak, miserable European weather. |
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I arrived shortly before 10 a.m. in a bleak downpour, trusting that someone had recorded my appointment. |
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February is bleak and cold, and there's nothing wrong with a little color and a park full of people. |
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In Kabul, while initial food distributions have been conducted among its 1.1 million inhabitants, the long-term situation is bleak. |
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And at the war's end, when the prisoners came home, there were some amazing reunions but for most it was a bleak reality check. |
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Weather conditions are still too bleak to get going with the rod comfortably. |
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Alex Robson's bleak view of the sugar industry is challenged by the Queensland Canegrowers Organisation. |
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With the real estate market booming and vacancy rates dropping, the situation for people looking for affordable housing is bleak. |
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But the desperately bleak situation in the Middle East cannot be allowed to become a zero sum game. |
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Joy Division became famous for their bleak, introspective music, which became the hallmark of Britain's post-punk music scene. |
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Against this bleak background, the good news is that there is a clear distinction between anti-Americanism and criticism of US policies. |
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Newspaper reports about the topic also opened her eyes to the bleak situation of the elderly. |
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Gaye Alexander, who co-owns Horbury Junction Post Office, which is closing later this month, claimed the situation was bleak. |
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Conditions are so bleak in so many areas we seem on the verge of a social emergency. |
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An isolated, bleak windswept wilderness it lies well off the beaten track and until recently was completely closed to foreigners. |
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Payment delays were causing families considerable hardship at a time when farming was already in crisis and future prospects were bleak, he said. |
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If people on middle incomes continue to shun inner cities, those areas will face a bleak future. |
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Otherwise the future of sport in the area will be very bleak indeed and may fine sporting amenities will remain underused. |
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But it would be both inaccurate and unfair to paint too bleak a picture of education in England. |
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The study paints a bleak picture of the effects of pollution on animal life. |
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The albino crisis is a bleak spot in a time of economic optimism in Tanzania. |
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His more polemical books, such as Black Mass and Straw Dogs, often posit a worldview bleak enough to make Beckett blanch. |
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Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal. |
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And surprisingly, gender may also play a role in your bleak winter outlook. |
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With no family, little community support, and no outlet for education, they face a bleak future. |
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The bleak, snowy hills of Scotland are the setting for a slicey, dicey Roman invasion against the dashing, plucky Celtic tribes. |
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Their futures looked bleak at the beginning of last year after both were diagnosed with Battens Disease, a fatal condition causing muscle wastage. |
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The Garfield specials are also unique for their deadpan delivery and oftentimes bleak worldview. |
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Bibi is a dangerous man and a demagogue in his own right, but this current bleak situation isn't his fault in the first instance. |
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Now we were driving through bleak glens with stunted conifers, gushing ice-melt streams and mist snagged in tattered veils on the crags like the wraiths of lost warriors. |
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Children at the York women's refuge were facing a bleak Christmas. |
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This bleak outlook on humankind allies him to Beckett, and it's no surprise that the godfather of the absurd should be here in one of the show's most powerful pieces. |
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Divergent is set in a dystopia and provides a pretty bleak portrait of our future. |
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Disturbing, highly intelligent, referential to a legion of horror movies, the film is a horrifyingly bleak portrait of a Britain overrun by rabid zombies. |
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Compared to bleak, blank land of the Oni Kai this was lush rich land. |
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The host country were convincing winners with 42.5 points on a canal which provided roach, small skimmers, perch, ruffe and bleak and the occasional sizeable bream. |
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Amidst the bleak despair of this ignoble abdication, a few organisations bravely banded together under the banner of Citizens Initiative in Ahmedabad. |
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Ida is a mystery of sorts, tethered to a road journey in a bleak postwar Poland. |
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With a capacity of 4,000, one seated stand and bleak open terraces, Wigan's former home was not a place for the faint-hearted, either in the crowd or on the pitch. |
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That means thousands of boaters who rely on these multiple-use ports face the bleak prospect of shoaling channels and dangerous bars at river mouths. |
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He lives in a small fishing village on the coast of Iceland, a bleak, barren place with one or two buildings, a few fussy townsfolk, and a lot of snow and cold. |
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By contrast, the modern day village is bleak, cold and almost barren of young people who have moved to the cities in search of work and a better life. |
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This is a seductively bleak comedy performed entirely without words. |
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Its meander begins at the railway siding and extends down the bleak R545 road to Bethal, passing between open-cast coal pits and dried-up mealie fields. |
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A series of images flash onto the screen, superimposed over a bleak landscape. |
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The film, set in the bleak and grim coal mines of northern China, tells about two robbers' schemes to extort compensation money by murdering innocent miners. |
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Rather than being just a study in Scottish miserabilism Burnside's new book is a chilling display case of grotesques, shot through with a bleak and mordant humour. |
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I look around, and the bleak landscape leads me to wonder what use a place like this would have for China, a country already vast in size, population and economy. |
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The yard and the vast prairie lands were bleak and desolate. |
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Rhea looked up miserably at the bleak mountains surrounding them. |
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On the 40-minute journey across the bleak landscape of the Fens the coach was preceded by a vanguard of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing. |
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They seemed both happy and disturbed, glad to see a change of pace besides the bleak land they were in, but unhappy for it to be that kind of change of pace. |
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The very best of the various consequences that might befall us would be the prolonged hardship and misery of an indefinite stay in a bleak prison camp. |
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Even the bleak tower blocks of Hume are caught in limpid Northern sunlight, breaking through the clouds, making the estates look like places of hopeful promise. |
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Amongst these, a flutter of origami birds was the bright spot, alongside a glossy triptych of photos slotting bleak landscape between bleak tower blocks. |
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Hammond paced around the man known as Samuel Phillips, who unwilling sat strapped to a bolted down chair in the center of the bleak interrogation room. |
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After being bailed out by a friend, he is kidnapped and wakes up in a bleak room designed to look like a hotel but with a false view window and a locked steel door. |
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You get a sense of the scale of the city as you speed down rivers that curve forever, flanked by electrical towers, bleak apartment buildings and factories. |
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Why go back to that bleak weather and humdrum British nine to five? |
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It is very much a community event, with schools, businesses and local organisations all joining together for a fun day to brighten the bleak midwinter. |
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Despite bleak weather, there was plenty of sparkle at Grasmere's first Festival of the Stars at the weekend, ensuring the event was a big success. |
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Homeowners in flood-prone areas faced a bleak start to the new year. |
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From a bleak situation there's still a chance of a complete cure. |
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I spoke with mothers fretful and tearful about their bleak prospects but struggling to maintain a facade of optimism and cheerfulness in the presence of their children. |
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People in such bleak circumstances often acted upon desperation. |
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His eyes were hooded matching the bleak, dark expression on his face. |
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I smiled encouragingly when she turned a bleak expression on me. |
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One minute, he was staring off into outer space with a dreamy smile on his face and a split second afterward, he was tensed up with a bleak, grim expression. |
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Captain Val was the first to greet her, his expression bleak. |
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The place looked pretty bleak in the pelting snow and final minutes of wintry gray light. |
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This was so bleak a spot that monks in trouble for naughty behaviour at the mother house of St Albans used to be packed off to Tynemouth to mend their ways. |
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New Orleans, for now, is uninhabitable, but the outlook is also bleak. |
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The late 1980s saw me drift into a slough of depression that again led me back to music, this time the most bleak, unconsoling variety you could imagine. |
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His outlook turns bleak and his behavior erratic as he confronts the reality of his health. |
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Upon receiving the crushing news that one's child has a genetic disorder or birth defect, parents may suppose that the future has suddenly grown unrelievedly bleak. |
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It was a similar thought that inspired the faint glimmer of hope expressed at the end of Arthur Koestler's own bleak summing up of the contemporary situation. |
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In most of his works, he expressed his feelings and unyieldingness through description of things, showing a stirring, majestic character in a sad, bleak tone. |
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For 4000 years man has inhabited this bleak group of islands, raising squat, brown Soay sheep and collecting seabirds for food, feathers and fat for their lamps. |
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Things are probably bleak enough without me being such a bringdown. |
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It is a bleak picture of society, but it captures that which is terribly bleak about contemporary life in urban America-its narcissism and nihilism. |
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This is bleak because my career is neither a passion nor a vocation. |
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The bleak landscape of the present day contains striking evidence of this period of settlement in the form of more than 150 standing stones, some over 5 m. high. |
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The Canso plant was enduring one of its many shutdowns and all I could see was another bleak winter ahead of me, with time on my hands and no job to go to. |
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In a few years, maybe, you will have to do a little hand-to-hand combat with him in those wee bleak hours, when confidence threatens to drain away. |
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In March 2000 the future looked very bleak when she was suddenly taken seriously ill, struck down by a virus which attacked the muscles in her heart. |
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Morale has seldom been as fractured, the future outlook never as bleak, and barring some kid of miracle we are going to be dumped out of this title race on Sunday. |
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Even the change in location from a gritty industrial city to a glossy, sunlit place like L.A. was a misstep that undermined the necessarily bleak tone. |
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On a bleak, grey afternoon with a chill wind coming from the North Sea barely 100 yards away, Stanley took control of the game early on and the home side rarely threatened. |
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The correspondence is compelling in light of the fact that the companion Buddhist sutras offer no information about the landscape of this bleak scene. |
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It's got one of the most dauntingly bleak and unhappy endings imaginable. |
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A comfortless, bleak howl at the brutal aspects of relationships, it is the story of four couples falling in love, and then into infidelity and hate. |
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Its atmosphere is nonetheless bleak, evoking cold gray skies and a pinched existence in a slum area of town, with the ever-present fear of discrimination. |
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This is the Laban Centre, a new dance conservatoire on the banks of Deptford Creek that's somehow transcended its bleak surroundings to become a national style icon. |
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To others it is simply an artistic folly on a bleak Lanarkshire hillside. |
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But that day, despite her bleak mood, her courteousness was unfailing. |
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Despite some optimistic noises about finding a buyer, saving it looks a forlorn hope and prospects for the remaining 300 workers and 1,750 pensioners look bleak. |
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It is now so cold we want to die and the bleak, frigid pilgrimage to campus, wrought with icy peril and sub-zero gusts of wind, is a source of daily sorrow. |
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The 27-year-old grew up in bleak times for Scottish sport, when there was neither the political will nor the financial support to nurture precocious talent. |
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A brand new retail park has very recently been opened on part of the site in the shadow of the few remaining gasholders, surrounded by bleak fenced-off wasteland. |
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The void evoked in the first few bars is bleak and barren, chilly vibrato-less strings and coldly gleaming brass, with winds bubbling away like some kind of primordial soup. |
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But the 150-plus delegates gathering at Newton Rigg College are expected to be told that the outlook is bleak for the hen harrier and golden eagles. |
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It is not that the stock was desaturated in order to make the film look bleak, but rather that the picture looks washed out and overly bright throughout. |
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The thought brought me to deep despair and the future looked bleak indeed. |
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The lack of hope and happiness is far more unsettling than the dime store effects, and anyone who has seen it can attest to the movie being more bleak than bold. |
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It is a bleak film, a portrait of utter loneliness and disconnectedness. |
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Although the overall picture for the British economy in the 1930s was bleak, the effects of the depression were uneven. |
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In your gardens, hedgerows will still appear a bit bleak with little of the traditional may blossom on Hawthorn yet. |
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In the financing portion, the numbers are particularly bleak. |
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Howe refused to order a pursuit across the river, even though the outlook of the Continental Army was bleak. |
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The result is bleak and perhaps a little misandrous, but it's undeniably powerful. |
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By the end of the afternoon his keepnet was bulging with tiny silver bleak weighing 12lbs 6oz. |
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This is where I last saw my sister Gital, '' said Mr Obuscovski, at Birkenau, the bleak Auschwitz railhead. |
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Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water fringed bog or moor, loch and riverside. |
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A lot of what I write into the books is bleak and challenging, but I will be the Queen of the Aga saga to my dying day. |
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It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others. |
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Freshwater fish of the Thames and its tributaries include brown trout, chub, dace, roach, barbel, perch, pike, bleak and flounder. |
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The town looked unpromisingly bleak, but our hotel proved to be modern and cosy. |
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They warn each other about the dangers involved in anonymous chat rooms, and compare their community to the otherwise bleak cyberscape. |
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It was a bleak, rainsome day, and I imagined how majestic the building must look in the sunshine, if it was already as spectacular as it was. |
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At first the papal troops were defeated and things looked bleak for the house of Borgia. |
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The world of The Caretaker is a bleak one, its characters damaged and lonely. |
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Things look bleak for the chef as he flatlines during surgery and medics battle to save his life. |
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The use of Gallic language and music add an almost Middle Eastern exoticism to the bleak Scottish setting. |
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Drugstore Cowboy Gus Van Sant's bleak tale of junkie losers with Matt Dillon. |
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It's yet another bleak tale featuring murder, rape and other sexual deviancies. |
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Ahead, Mount Parnassos covered in snow, beneath, a plain, thick with mist and bleak rural communities. |
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When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. |
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In the wake of a possible mutiny, the future of main Opposition BJP in the Delhi Assembly elections seems bleak and visionless. |
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George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier gives a bleak overview of the hardships of the time. |
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This labor of love invites us to participate in the concretizing of a world that is bleak yet deeply meaningful. |
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This bleak circle of asphalt has been patched and repatched, and looks it. |
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New York stocks moved little on the final trading day of February on Friday as investors weighed upbeat growth data against a bleak housing report. |
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Despite the inherently bleak nature of so much of this material, Conroy has fashioned a memoir that is vital, largehearted and often raucously funny. |
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