A similar commitment was crucial to Spinnaker Real Estate Partners' redevelopment efforts in South Norwalk, where officials conceived an urban renewal plan for a formerly bleak area well before the term smart growth caught hold.
At 61 Mr. Waits is acclaimed as an American marvel: a songwriter who can be smart and primal, raucous and meticulous, ethereal and earthy, bleak and comical.
"THE AMERICANS," just as bleak and even better in Season 3. The sweet, smart, sly, bold "JANE THE VIRGIN".
Sometimes they are five adjacent solitudes with cartoon-like personal quirks, like a bleak sibling version of the Spice Girls (the pretty one, the smart one, the weird one, the oldest, "mean one, pulling my hair …").
This is a bleak truth, but not a bleak book – it's far too smart, readable and joyously achieved for that.
Even if long-term picture is bleak for supermarkets, which is the conventional wisdom, Supervalu, Kroger and Smart & Final are still all recording profits.
Whereas only a few years ago life outside the biggest cities was unremittingly bleak, now it is rare to find a regional capital without a profusion of smart new shops and restaurants.
This sounds bleak, but it also sounds true — and this was before Clare's poems became less popular and the smart set dropped him, with the result that he was left even more between worlds.
** This sounds bleak, but it also sounds true — and this was before Clare's poems became less popular and the smart set dropped him, with the result that he was left even more between worlds.
