Word: bleaknesses
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...staggering across the tundra, a half-starved revolutionary escaped from a Russian prison camp. Already onstage are a marooned regiment of Czech soldiers, a sexy lady photographer and a bizarre Christian sect of people whose zeal leads them to castrate themselves. With these chess pieces Meek stages a stunningly bleak Dostoyevskian drama, exploring the exaltation of the human spirit and the grotesqueries of the human body?the book's title refers not to sex but to cannibalism...
...witnessed the "synergy" mergers in technology and media in the late 1990s has good cause to be skeptical about the current surge in activity. But the traditional phone companies feel they have little choice. The loss of fixed-line revenues to mobile networks and VoIP has left them with bleak prospects, and they seem genuinely bullish about pushing any and all services through high-speed lines. "The operators have understood that it is necessary to offer as many services as possible because once you have acquired a client with an adsl [high-speed] modem, you can try to sell...
...herself again last night.” This exchange, coming late in the first half of director Krystian Lupa’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play “Three Sisters,” exemplifies the tone of the work. The play itself is unremittingly bleak, and Lupa’s direction only amplifies the work’s sense of desperation—which both overtly and subtly pervades each scene—as well as the disconnectedness between characters, as each is too absorbed in their personal misery to worry about others?...
...overambitious failures, until you look further. The monumental Portrait of a Woman (1895) is one of several Rousseaus bought by Picasso. It might seem a clumsy copy of a commercial photograph, until you notice the woman's hand holding an upturned, withered branch, and beyond the balcony railings a bleak treeless landscape bisected by an empty road. His so-called portrait landscapes, says Morris, produced hybrids "full of riddles." That is exactly what impressed Rousseau's avant-garde friends and the later Surrealists: they appreciated his ability to combine images to unsettling effect. The fashionable lady in Promenade...
...thankless role, Mulroney does his same ordinary guy schtick played out in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “The Wedding Date.” His relationship with Meredith is a bleak picture of yuppie romance. Mulroney’s allegedly playful smirk and his unfortunate habit of talking out of one side of his mouth gets old quickly...