"The subject of pain is the business I am in," she wrote, and one of her arches is set in a cell, one of a sequence of unimaginably bleak spaces, one would have said, except that she imagined them.
It's also padded out to excessive length by animations illustrating Cobain's reminiscences of a singularly bleak youth, and by impressionistic sequences that animate his sour solipsistic jottings – an overworked effect that only serves to romanticise his mental problems.
"Given current bleak scenario and situation, for sequencing purposes I'd have gone with 'High Noon.'".
He criticised the alien space whale as the "one less-than-wonderful" aspect of the episode but praised the opening sequence and the use of the "bleak industrial setting" by director Colin Teague.
Like the recently cancelled Hannibal, the Sarah Connor Chronicles lifted core concepts and characters but also seemed happy to scribble outside the margins using flash-forwards to a bleak future of bleached skulls and elaborate dream sequences.
Rather than the expected smutty comedy, Reid gave proceedings a bleak tone and an awareness of the social divide; its sequences of nightmares invite comparison with an earlier venture of its producer, Michael Klinger, Roman Polanski's Repulsion.
Read in sequence -- or even in punctuated immersions -- they disclose a singularly bleak sensibility refracting itself in all directions with imagistic inventiveness and, often, a darkly comic brio.
These range from Bleak House to TS Eliot's Four Quartets, and from Anthony Powell's 12-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.
After a breathtaking opening sequence of pearl divers in the watery depths, the curtain rises on a bleak coastal village, where a weather-beaten billboard — advertising jewelry with the tagline "Inspiration from the Deep" — looms over tin-and-cardboard huts.
