Word: bleakness
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...Justice Department's suit dragged on endlessly in court like the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in Dickens' Bleak House. The first judge in the case died and was replaced in 1978 by Judge Harold Greene, a refugee from Nazi Germany who had helped draw up the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while working in the Justice Department. Greene conducted more than 18 months of hearings, pretrial discovery and major filings by the parties. Not until January 1981 did the trial begin...
...pages contain a formidable array of stories--stories which delve into the comic and tragic interiors of ordinary lives, revealing an extraordinary subtlety of observation and perception. No peripheral backwater of society no commonplace experience is too mundane to attract the sympathetic interest of this writer. Just as bleak, hollow cocoons of loneliness make up much of Philip Larkin's poetry, is unglamorous, unremarkable lives which are the raw materials of Trevor's prose. But far from being dull, these are absorbing, seamless evocations of character and life style, of curiously inept human beings muddling through life's complications. Infused...
Again, Steve Ernst responded. He gained 102 yards on 21 carries and was the Crimson's only bright spot on an otherwise bleak day. With fullback Santiago hurt, Ernst made his final shift. He became, for the first time since high school, a fullback...
...seemed an unremarkable Saturday-night scene: a topless bar in working-class Detroit, shouted epithets, an ugly brawl. But this particular fight was one-sided and fatal, and turned out to be a bleak commentary on the emotions running high in Motor City in June 1982. The victim, Draftsman Vincent Chin, 27, a Chinese American, was at his bachelor party; he was to be married in nine days...
From Cabaret to Lenny to All That Jazz, Fosse has been rummaging through the junk heaps of our culture, looking for artifacts to symbolize his bleak view of human nature. In the process he has stripped away his self-indulgences, and he emerges here as a masterly director in full possession of a terrible vision...