Yet success may be a mere game of chance anyway at least this is the bleak existential question posed by this casually episodic and poignant film.
Job and Ecclesiastes are especially atypical, for they are philosophically bleak, asking unanswerable questions.
The verdict is, without question, bleak.
Anyone who questions this bleak perspective need only have watched last week's sad and ultimately pointless Congressional hearings into the 2004 friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman.
The bleak outlook throws into question whether a new collective bargaining agreement can be reached without a work stoppage — the league's first in more than two decades — that could threaten at least the start of the 2011 season.
You know the outlook is bleak when even the sports questions for the President get somber answers.
Yes, the story is bleak, as characters face painful questions about belief and sacrifice, and the ending is truly breathtaking as nuns slowly walk to the guillotine (thankfully, offstage, but still).
"The question is, how bleak is it going to be?" In the meantime, Westchester officials will keep looking for savings.
"It looked bleak," Ryan said, "there's no question about it".
One, the establishment survey, which questions 160,000 employers, paints the bleak picture.
