Word: bleakness
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...house faction sort of reverse-hibernates through much of the warmer months, but they become much easier to find in the bleak of winter, when they brave all manner of snow and ice to see films about angst set amidst the very same snow and ice. This month alone, we have films about a schoolbus crashing in the snow, a town struck by an ice storm and Emma Thompson as a widow who takes pictures of snow and ice. No kidding; these folks can be a chilly bunch...
During a lunch last year with three junior faculty members, Pheng said, they painted a bleak picture of what it was like to be junior faculty at Harvard...
Life for those who aren't incarcerated isn't as bleak, but these dissidents are scarcely more effective in promoting change than are their jailed counterparts. For example, Chen Ziming and Zhai Weimin, two leaders of the 1989 protests, are under virtual house arrest, and Chen is reportedly in poor health...
After years of litigation, the parents regained custody, but homelife turned out to be as bleak as life in Quintland, with allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of a remote father. Two of the girls died young--one of a seizure, one of a stroke; the others have survived but remain embittered and have petitioned for compensation for their mistreatment. They emerged from seclusion last week to offer advice to the McCaugheys (see open letter...
...from his friend Bare Hips that the Red Guards have caught Old Whore, a local woman accused of prostitution, and will parade her through the streets to the place of public denunciations and punishment. White Cat is excited at the promised spectacle, as is everyone in the town; a bleak place like Dismount Fort offers few public diversions...