Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chances of survival looked bleak. Their inflatable life raft had a slow leak. There was no radio or compass. The food supply consisted of only a few oranges and lemons, some fortified bread and glucose packed aboard the raft...
...There's no doubt we definitely have to find new sources of funds," Martin said. "It's not a bleak outlook," he added, and characterized as "reasonably good" the library's chances to "stay current in those areas in which we have traditionally been strong...
...contrast between this bleak, unglamorous and ill-rewarded work, and the familiar pattern of low-pressure, easeful intellection which is both expected and most frequently enjoyed by academic people is no simple matter for the conscience of an ethical intellectual to handle. Harvard people, therefore, need to lie, first to themselves, then to one another, in order that they may keep on with their routine lives without remorse. If they did not, they could not possibly explain the ease, delight and satisfaction of their own well-fed existence, and the relative penury of those who sweep the basement floors...
...theme is the folly of moral anarchy, but Ferreri himself holds back: he is a strict, even severe director who allows not one arty shot or lyrical moment to intrude onto his bleak canvas. Slowly, carefully, his film builds, snaring us by its opposing tensions. Porn brushed with intense moral vigilance, the movie keeps turning on itself, proffering and withdrawing erotic titillation, discovering laughter and terror in the retreat from social restraints...
...first time Harvard got its hands on the football in Saturday's game with Cornell, the bleak, threatening clouds hanging over Schoellkopf Field began to break and lighten up. It's not likely that many of the 25,000 fans at the game noticed the change (it only lasted for a second or two), but nevertheless, it was a highly symbolic moment...