Peter Moorhouse from Morgan Stanley delivered the bleak message in person.
Ayckbourn's bleak comedy Absurd Person Singular takes place simultaneously in three kitchens over three Christmas, while David Edgar's epic adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby culminates with a Christmas resolution.
It makes sense, because taking a solo trip to the degenerative paradise that is Las Vegas is one of the most heartbreakingly bleak things a person could do.
It makes sense, because visiting the degenerative paradise that is Las Vegas solo is one of the most heartbreakingly bleak things a person could do.
Even in cases where there is no misuse of medications, the situation can be pretty bleak for the person suffering in pain and not knowing what else to do.
"Ferrer seems much bleaker as a person and a leader compared to Bloomberg," said Betsy Jaffe, 69, a former department store buyer and career counselor who is now retired.
"But it's still quite bleak that the one person who represents a hope is a broken-down, polarized person, who represents a broken, polarized America.
We've become accustomed to memoirs of mental illness in recent years, as the public's appetite for bleak and ungodly first-person narratives has increased, and as much of the stigma attached to these conditions has fallen away.
"In any country life can be bleak; I think the bleakness comes from inside each person," she says, and offers as illustration a story from her childhood.
The patient's medical options, at that point, were life-long dialysis or a hoped-for kidney transplant – bleak options for such a young person, and ones that adequate preventive care could have been avoided.
