In "Pace non trovo," a hymn to the pains of love with Verdian shifts from exultation to despair, he was simply superb, moving through the bleak images ("eyeless I gaze, and tongueless I cry out") with burning intensity and accompanied with flexibility and eloquence on the piano by Ivari Ilja.
By the end, I wasn't convinced the historic moon mission that begins the book had all that much to do with Duncan's journey, but I did feel a bit like Michael Collins in the command module of Apollo 11, circling around and around a bleak and beautiful world, gazing down in wonder but never able to land.
But with its fine performances and unflinching gaze on the bleak landscape of working-class North England, "Shooting Magpies" continues in the British tradition of socially conscious filmmaking exemplified by Ken Loach and Mike Leigh.
It was the single instance within reach of anything that had been alive and had had a body to save, as he himself had now". In this bleak spot, where I was gazing out towards the precipice between the wrinkled sea below and the darkening sky above, trilobites made a brief appearance in English literature.
We gaze wistfully at our bleak, frozen yards, waiting for our sentences to end, and deal with confinement by doing pretty much what she has been doing all this time -- dreaming about a better year in the garden this spring.
And Mr. Carrión has adjusted his campaign to the situation, meeting with his lawyers daily in a rather bleak office in the prison, under the watchful gaze of guards.
His prose is often described as bleak, but in fact it practises a parity of gaze.
As her eyelids slowly open to expose a vacant gaze, dead birds begin to fall against a bleak sky.
After painstakingly ransacking this bonkers conceit for every last bleak nuance and bitter ramification, counterpointing his camera's blank, steady gaze with rhythmically edited detonations of anxiety, Lanthimos then pulls a full 180 on us, and very deftly.
As a photographer he did not divert his gaze and turn away, but rather devoured the bleakest obscenities of war with his camera.
