Word: bleak
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...streets, for which life’s daily challenges are endless. Their jobs, if they have them, don’t pay enough to make the rent. Their health may be fragile due to inadequate health care. Their children or grandchildren are at risk. Their future is bleak...
...team and dog-eared passports like mine. But these days I can't even travel to Romania without a lengthy wait for a visa. These were some of the thoughts going through my head as I watched happy Montenegrins celebrating through the night, but my mood was not entirely bleak. After all, this move to independence was not followed by the grotesque terrors of artillery fire and burning villages that sent convoys of refugees toiling through Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo (Macedonia slipped out easily, but that was only because Milosevic was busy elsewhere at the time). Although harsh words were...
THAT'S A RATHER BLEAK SENTIMENT. THIS NOVEL FEELS A LITTLE BLEAK TO ME TOO. Is it? I think novels always feel bleaker to the person that reads them than the person that writes them. I guess I do feel the decline of America, let's call it, and without being any less of an American myself, the piggishness of us all. Clearly, there's going to be a global crisis in the amount of petroleum in the world. There's only so much, and there are more people wanting it. No wonder the Third World is sore...
...unchanged since the early years of the Cold War. Indeed, within a few years Japan may desperately need foreigners not only to visit, but even to stay. With a plummeting birth rate, rapidly aging population, and lingering structural problems in the financial sphere, Japan’s prospects look bleak without the external boost to its labor force. Yet an immigrant influx, however unthinkable that might be today, may be Japan’s only hope. Taro Tsuda ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House...
...otherwise I wouldn’t do it.” Savitsky first acted in high school, and pursued it at Harvard until she fell into costuming, assistant directing, and ultimately producing. She learned the ropes of each job informally. Savitsky says she has done everything from visiting a bleak but beautiful island off the coast of Ireland that greatly influenced the playwright of “The Playboy of the Western World” to spending eight hours burning prom dresses for the costumes of prisoners in another play, so that they might look as though they had been...