The outlook, though bleak, was based on the assumption that a cash-for-reform deal would be agreed by June when Athens' current bailout programme ends.
The wrenching "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," a tale so bleak that some critics have called it "poverty porn," has sold about $45 million in tickets at North American theaters.
In 2003, he and the choreographer Michael Clark staged a show at Salle Wagram based on the film "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", a bleak evocation of the Depression.
Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent (Little, Brown).This bleak but gorgeously atmospheric début is based on the life of the last woman to be executed in Iceland, in 1830.
Burial Rites, _by Hannah Kent (Little, Brown)._This bleak but gorgeously atmospheric début is based on the life of the last woman to be executed in Iceland, in 1830.
First, there's pessimism – evident in bleak industry forecasts right, left and centre based on the current state of the trade, in its worst shape in living memory.
In Elidor, his 1965 story based on the Northern ballad "Childe Roland and Bard Ellen", his juvenile heroes enter a bleak parallel reality via a disused church off the Oldham Road, in central Manchester.
But the message of the film, based on the 2008 book of the same name by the longtime Trenton reporters Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure, is relentlessly bleak.
The bleak and unforgiving borderlands of Texas by the Rio Grande are the setting for this triumphant new movie by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the western thriller by Cormac McCarthy.
Thomson's book paints a bleak picture of Jamaica as a post-colonial nation, struggling with huge levels of criminal violence, drug crime, and a petty system of racial hierarchy, based on the self-serving calibrations of British plantation masters.
