This bleak, hard-edged sculpture embodies our American family cupboard.
One of the few films to deal head-on with the psychological havoc wreaked on survivors of the Nazi extermination camps, Lumet's Pawnbroker is a bleak, hard-hitting story about imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical.
A bleak, hard-lined toast to the future, Infinite joins hollow, halftime rhythms with tempamental atmospherics that do anything but implore the listener to throw their hands in the air.
Because The New York Times has been publishing since 1851, just as Dickens was beginning the period of his life in which he wrote works like "Bleak House," "Hard Times," "Tale of Two Cities," and "Great Expectations," we have also included a number of archival articles that show how he was seen in his own day — as well as some that appraise him 100 years after he was born.
How closely their own experiences actually hewed to Mr. Clark's bleak vision is hard to know.
The novels of these years, Bleak House (1852 53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855 57), were much "darker" than their predecessors.
My thoughts wheeled around and down and then struck bottom: not, to my surprise, on despair but on something else after all — hard, bleak, gray, satisfactory freedom.
John Williams put me in his 274-page time machine and there I was, alternately sweating and shivering in his hard, bleak, unrelentingly unromantic world.
Daunt Books "In a book-selling landscape that sometimes seems bleak it's hard not to love Daunts, which always feels as a good bookshop should: warm, inviting and excited about its stock," says Olivia.
WXRK, better known as 92.3 K-Rock, receives its tribute from an assortment of rockers including Korn, with its deep-bottomed, traumatized growls; the Guns 'n' Roses/Stone Temple Pilots merger Velvet Revolver; the earnest but upbeat Jimmy Eat World; the post-punk update of Franz Ferdinand; and the bleak, Tool-style hard rock of Chevelle.
