Sentence examples for bleak fantasy from inspiring English sources

It plays out more like the B-side of The Road, an angsty, bleak fantasy of America the lost.

Mr Hewetson, who lives in London with his partner, Nina Gold, and two children Nell, 16, and Joe, 13, said life in prison in the frozen northern city of Murmansk, where the group spent most of its time, was like a cross between BBC holiday camp sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, Mervyn Peake's bleak fantasy Gormenghast and a John le Carré novel.

Imagine it as the lost "Cheers" episode by Tennessee Williams: Misanthropic Lilith wipes the smug smile off Sam's face in a bleak fantasy that banishes his lovable regulars and turns his establishment into a watering hole for blue-collar depressives — a bar where nobody wants to know your name.

Old Country has the bleak fantasy land of Texas in the 80s -- a time our current president was living near Marfa, TX, the location for the film -- but there is no recovery and absolutely no escape.

This is a strangely enticing combination, and it has become the hallmark of Carey's best work, informing such wildly different novels as "Oscar and Lucinda" (an antiromantic 19th-century romance) and "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" (a bleak, futuristic fantasy that owes much to the 18th-century "Tristram Shandy").

His only male role models are his mother's suitors (Ben Adams and Guy Rhys), who have turned his home into a bleak, male-fantasy playground.

While Bausch's earlier creations had the qualities of a nightmare, in their bleak, absurd fantasies and their compulsively played-out rituals, her later work had lightness and a more sensuous ease.

That's the bleak premise behind "Fantasy Island," one of two shows with vaguely supernatural themes that begin tonight on ABC.

The albums reviewed below use the studio to create aural fantasies: bleak wastelands, plush havens and parties that never have to end.

More vicious, nihilistic crust hardcore apparently out to reinforce the notion that Scandinavia is not in fact the liberal, egalitarian paradise with good knitwear of left-wing broadsheet fantasy, but a bleak and oppressive hellhole populated by depressed alcoholics.

In "Diamonds of the Night," filmed with a hand-held camera, two young men escape from a Nazi prison train and wander across a bleak landscape, their thoughts and fantasies played out on the screen as they encounter strange scenes and even stranger people.