Word: bleak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hurts even more now. As overall forecasts for e-tailing turn bleak, beauty sites in particular are struggling. According to NPD BeautyTrends, out of some 300 cosmetics, fragrance and bath-and-body sites that were on the Web last fall, only 100 remain. Among the consolidations and casualties: Beauty.com which sold to Drugstore.com just two months after its launch; fragrance site Jasmin.com which was inhaled by luxury site Ashford.com and Beautyscene.com which sold to private investors in a fire sale after its finances got ugly...
Under the legislation before Congress, new means tests would force more borrowers into Chapter 13--leading to still more failures--and would eliminate bankruptcy as an option for others. For this second group, life will be especially bleak. Listen to their future as described by Brady Williamson, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and was chairman of the former National Bankruptcy Review Commission, appointed by Congress in 1995: "A family without access to the bankruptcy system is subject to garnishment proceedings, to multiple collection actions, to repossession of personal property and to mortgage foreclosure. There...
More concerned with plot than pathos, Brown presents his characters without judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...
...that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old janitor who is crazed because her two children were killed in a house fire while she was having sex in the driveway...
...Disney whore. To all of you who think the company brainwashes children, conceals a Satanic cult, represents all that is evil in our society, I can't sympathize. Disney's like Cher - it's always around, it always comes back when it's future is looking bleak. So as a concerned fan, I started wondering a while back why the last few Disney cartoons (not the Pixar movies) haven't neither been tearing up the box office nor instantly acquiring legendary status like the films of old. So here's my hypothesis. Just think of the Disney films that everyone...