In his sports shop in the Palestinian village of Hizme, Mohammad al-Kiswani, aged 52, reflected bleakly on the re-election of Binyamin Netanyahu.
A block was lifted from my vision and the future suddenly didn't stretch out so bleakly.
Its American distributors hope to capitalise on the recent success north of the border of two other Mexican films, "Amores Perros" (Love's a Bitch), a bleakly violent urban drama, and "Y Tu Mama Tambien" (And Your Mother Too), a sexy comedy.
Ms Nicholson quotes a headmistress bleakly informing her pupils in 1917 that "only one out of ten of you girls can ever hope to marry...You will have to make your way in the world as best you can .There had always been spinsters, but on this scale they were something else.
The sense of suffering and injustice is increased by poignant moments of yearning and pathetic insight, before the bleakly inevitable denouement: Wozzeck murders Marie and drowns himself.Premiered in Berlin in 1925, Berg's opera both shocked and dazzled.
Mr Jones, who also directs and co-writes, has made a quiet, intimate drama with a small cast and very little story, but it's also a fully fledged epic, complete with elemental themes and bleakly beautiful vistas.
More bleakly terrible is America's annual harvest of gun deaths that are not mass murders: some 14,000 routine killings committed in 2005 with guns, to which must be added 16,000 suicides by firearm and 650 fatal accidents (2004 figures).
Takashi Inoguchi, a Japanese political scientist, bleakly refers to Japan as a potential "Argentina of the east".
As for the reaction of Afghan army officers, reports suggest they are bleakly pessimistic.
Though in recent years a few states have started to roll back against the trend of ever longer, ever harsher sentencing, these efforts amount to little more than bailing out a sinking supertanker with a teacup.Mr Moskos's proposal begins as a provocation and ends bleakly plausible.
Some may find her account of the delights of pre-war Warsaw rather too rosy, and military historians may wish for a clearer account of the fighting itself.But she bleakly sets out the central narrative: the poor leadership, flawed intelligence and bad planning which reduced the uprising's slender chances to nothing.
