Sentence examples for bleak update from inspiring English sources

Consumer spending stood out as the only significant bright spot in the Commerce Department's otherwise bleak update on the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic activity, which has now posted three straight quarters of decline.

This "clever, erotic but punishingly bleak update of the Don Juan story," you say in homage to the Telegraph, "is evocatively set during the winter of discontent of 1978 79".

Much of the early conversation among demonstrators focused on the latest bleak update on the housing crisis, specifically news that social housing across the south-east of England would become unaffordable for large families on benefits almost immediately after a Conservative election victory.

2005's Independence Day went dark, with Steven Spielberg's bleak update of H.G Wells' already bleak classic starring Cruise.

Alone in his small office in western Beijing, Liang watched his cellphone rumble to life with each bleak new update.

"Shameless," which was brought to Showtime by the executive producer John Wells ("ER"), is deftly adapted and surprisingly appealing, crude, funny and also touching — a bleak urban update of "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew".

The bleak setting, updated to the 1930s, takes its inspiration from Frans Masereel, whose graphic novel in woodcuts, A Passionate Journey (1919), is a visual poem of urban loneliness.

The director Adrian Noble's bleak and boldly updated production of Verdi's "Macbeth" made a strong impression when it was unveiled at the Metropolitan Opera in October.

On the other hand, the performance that the soprano Maria Guleghina gave as Lady Macbeth in Adrian Noble's bleak and bloody updated production of Verdi's "Macbeth" came off better in the house, where the audience had some distance from Ms. Guleghina's vehement, strident singing and full-throttle acting.

In the updated edition, "Bleak, Rocky World Seen From Module," had been replaced with "A Powdery Surface Closely Explored". Both articles were written by John Noble Wilford, who went on to become a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times science writer and the author of many books, including We Reach The Moon (Bantam Books 1969).

In a previous book on the region, Gilbert Achcar warned of the risk of a plunge into barbarism; his latest work is an update on the bleak winter that followed the Arab spring - with some ideas about the future.