Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phillips sees White Rabbit as part of the tradition of Californian dystopian novels. When she began writing, her vision of California was relatively bleak. She wanted to emphasize the isolation and loneliness that often comes with living in a condominium community like Ruth's "Paradise Lagoon." She was also concerned with the rapid growth and development that was choking the state. Now, after a few Boston winters, Phillips says her vision of California is more positive...
Baez shared a personal story with the audience of a life on the streets, failing grades in school and a bleak outlook on life...
...first sentence of this fine, brooding novel expresses not hate but loss: "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself...
...measure of just how bleak those days were that this gleaming instant came when Alan at last read the thick contract from their health plan, Health Net of Woodland Hills, California. Like most Americans enrolled in such plans, the couple had never studied the document. Now, however, the specifics had become a matter of vital interest. "Good news," Alan announced from his end of the family sofa in Murietta, California. "It's covered...
...exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...