Word: bleakness
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There was a moment last year when Letourneau had some time to start a journal for Audrey so that when the little girl is older, she can understand this mess. At that time, last summer, the future didn't look so bleak to Letourneau. She was still talking to her other four children, her "angels," even though they were moving to Alaska with their dad Steven. True, her lawyer, David Gehrke, was telling her she had to plead guilty to "rape of a child." Such a ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come...
...other is that his rationale for bad behavior--that he's building the boy's "character"--is not entirely wrong. In the end, Katadreuffe is strong, though at what cost in future psychiatric bills the movie wisely does not say. It is content to offer us only this bleak, useful thought: life's problems are not all small stuff, and we do need to sweat them. It helps us get rid of our baby...
...bleak inheritance. Following the total defeat of France, Britain truly, in his words, "stood alone." It had no substantial allies and, for much of 1940, lay under threat of German invasion and under constant German air attack. He nevertheless refused Hitler's offers of peace, organized a successful air defense that led to the victory of the Battle of Britain and meanwhile sent most of what remained of the British army, after its escape from the humiliation of Dunkirk, to the Middle East to oppose Hitler's Italian ally, Mussolini...
...after laying out this bleak out-look for the short term, Reich dismissed it, shifting the focus of his speech from a discussion of Washington politics to one on the themes relevant to the Democratic Party at the turn of the millennium...
...Coen brothers have always been great at portraying unique, vivid worlds of their own creation. Just look at the bleak, twisted landscape of Fargo or the surreal corporate America of the underrated Hudsucker Proxy...