China may no longer be the bleak land of Mao suits, self-criticism sessions and loudspeakers blaring communist slogans.
He pursues his wife's killer in a bleak land of diners and cheap motels, using the notes and photos to keep things straight.
The new France is a bleak land of bitter people, and if there are to be children's books about it, it seems, they should show old women sweltering all alone in the summer heat while their indifferent, intellectual children write hard words about America, doubting the divinity of Donald Rumsfeld and maybe even Dr. Seuss.
But such defiance comes at a time when prospects for the Sahrawi independence movement look as bleak as the barren land that it controls and from which its leader, Muhammad Abdelaziz, was speaking.Before Spain pulled its troops out of its colony of Western Sahara in 1976, it ceded the territory to Morocco and Mauritania.
The 56-year-old Ms. Mitchell, born Roberta Joan Anderson, grew up in the Canadian province of Alberta, where she internalized the bleak surroundings of the desolate land.
Then I read P. D. James's "Devices and Desires," and her intensely evocative description of that bleak, windswept land made me determined to see if she was right.
The Canadian film, which was narrated unobtrusively by Dr. Asen Balikci, the docu mented final winter seal hunt of the Netsilik Eskimos, who inhabit the bleak, white land around Pelly Bay in Canada's Northwest Territories, where temperatures average be tween 30 and 50 degrees below zero and survival de pends on the multiple skills of the hunter and his wife.
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.
Set in a bleak, futuristic land, the piece chronicles the Dandelion Revolution, an imagined uprising against greedy elites known as Dome Dwellers, who live in one of the last unpolluted places on Earth.
Next came the BBC's acclaimed adaptation of Bleak House Landing the role of Nina in the Royal Court's Seagull this year was another piece of wish-fulfilment.
Instead, this bleak, spectacularly rugged land is devoted to a different kind of wealth: mining.
