Word: bleak
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...credit for Phoenix's performance has to go to Mangold, who has always been good at finding the bleak melodrama in taciturn souls: Pruitt Taylor Vince's short-order cook in Heavy, Sly Stallone's tired sheriff in Cop Land. If Mangold's new movie has a problem, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk the lines of the inspirational biography too rigorously. John's father, Ray Cash (Robert Patrick), is a one-note ogre who blames John for surviving his more adored younger brother, and whose condemnation of the singer lasts way longer than...
...going to take some time for [our defense] to get its bearings,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “We just have to come out of the gate faster.”Freshman forward Sarah Wilson provided the bright spot in an otherwise bleak first period, notching the sixth goal of her rookie season at the 6:51 mark. But this did not spark a comeback, as the Crimson continued its downhill slide in a second frame riddled with penalties and mistakes. Harvard was outshot 13-4 in the second period, with Clarkson maintaining the bulk...
...those survivors are the people with whom the insurgents will ultimately have to share a country. I doubt that the Shi'ites will ever associate with the Sunni killers as fellow citizens or do business with them. The Sunnis have engendered a legacy of hatred. Their future is bleak...
...able to conquer, it would have let victory dictate the peace. All that said, the settlements-in-the-making in the Middle East and South Africa were hardly involuntary, and they were far from inevitable. Without Rabin and Arafat, the Israelis and Palestinians would have continued down the same bleak, violent road they have followed since 1948. Without Mandela and De Klerk, blacks and whites would have descended into the bloodiest race war in history. In 1993 Rabin and Arafat, Mandela and De Klerk all rose to the occasion before them. Their common genius was that they...
Beyond the ideological dialogue, one of the most powerful aspects of the film is the striking depictions of the bleak geography of the West Bank: dusty olive groves; graffiti-streaked concrete walls; bustling markets; and oppressive barbed wire fences. The everyday life of residents of the city of Nablus is punctuated by the humiliation of checkpoints, reverberating calls to prayer, and the occasional sound of a bomb exploding. The film blatantly contrasts this oppressive landscape with the polished city of Tel Aviv, and the juxtaposition intentionally induces empathetic shock...