Responding to his 2001 fiction-feature debut, the critic Scott Foundas wrote, "What some detect as cruelty in 'Dog Days' is in fact a bleak but deeply felt humanism".
With two deeply troubled parties a bleak period now beckons for Japanese politics as well as for the prospects for reform.
Not least because if you do not have any of these things, and you're not lucky enough to be, say, a successful novelist or a software engineer, then society frowns on you, and your prospects are frequently bleak and deeply uncertain.
Given Limmy's ability to craft stories and sketches that are often as funny as they are bleak and deeply troubling, we thought we'd get him to create some original stories on the spot.
Graduation is an intricate, deeply intelligent film, and a bleak picture of a state of national depression in Romania, where the 90s generation hoped they would have a chance to start again.
In contrast, the Smetana is brief but deeply heartfelt, the beauty of its bleak majesty perfectly captured by the Danish players.
LONDON — Since the '90s, the singer and songwriter Tori Amos has been an inspiration to sensitive young women everywhere through her deeply personal and angry songs about bleak subjects like masochism and lost love.
U-turns, bleak electoral prospects and a deeply unpopular Chancellor.
Nevertheless, the facts - heavily or lightly interpreted - prosecute their own case: black folks in America are deeply wounded economically, looking for some kind of balm in our present, seemingly bleak, social order.
