But I disliked this bleak, attention-seeking play so intensely that it must be an inverted compliment to its power.
Then she gives an actressy hair flick and adds, with a twinkle: "That said, I'll probably end up in rehab by March, just to get some more attention". Bleak and disillusioned but sharply observant, Williams was nominated alongside Bea for best newcomer at last year's Edinburgh festival.
The Roots, led by Ahmir (Questlove) Thompson on drums and the rapper Black Thought, are determined to focus attention on the bleak prospects of poor urban youth.
The Web site Red Letter Media has gained attention for its bleak, film-length takedown "reviews" of the Star Wars prequels.
Mr. Aristregi changed plans and began to photograph this bleak world, hoping that international attention — if not outrage — might similarly force authorities to take action.
(Steve Smith) 'Tosca' (Tuesday) Even since Luc Bondy's production of Puccini's "Tosca" was introduced to open the 2009-10 seaudiencedience reactions have tended to depend upon how much the cast can distract attention from this bleak, overwrought staging.
"The picture looks very bleak for international oversight and attention to human rights in the region," said Jacqueline Hale, a Central Asia specialist in Brussels at the Open Society Foundations, which promotes democracy.
A riff on her ineptitude around technology — forget Twitter, she doesn't even use a computer — ultimately leads her to declare that she is such an astute witness to street life because she is the only one among us, in our bleak BlackBerry civilization, really paying attention.
But Labour suggested that the government was trying to "distract attention" from "rather bleak" trends in child poverty data.
The tragic death of 25-year-old Baltimore resident Freddie Gray while in police custody focused a lot of attention on the bleak prospects for young people in the neighborhood where he lived.
In the absence of sustained international attention, the future looks bleak for human rights in Russia.
