Word: bleakness
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...hero, played by E.G. Marshall, was once the head of a great bank. He embezzled funds in a desperate move to protect his depositors, was caught out and spent five years in prison. For the past eight years he has paced an upper room in his bleak house, unspoken to by his wife Gunhild (Rosemary Murphy) as he broods over past wounds and dreams an illusory comeback...
With the more conservative cast of the new Congress, prospects for passage of the full revised code are bleak. Yet backers of the sentence-appeal provision remain hopeful. Now that the Supreme Court has removed the double-jeopardy objection to the provision, they believe they have enough support to have it removed from the main bill and passed separately...
Kundera's people face a shared dilemma. Should they try to remember, when the memories of happier times only mock the bleak, estranged present? Would it not be more sensible to shrug off the past, to laugh it away? No simple answers emerge...
...Mencken once described Pittsburgh as "...appalling desolation. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke...
...outlook for dentists is not totally bleak. More and more companies are offering dental insurance as part of employee benefit programs. Seventy-five million people are now covered by insurance, more than twice as many as in 1975. Enrollment in the nation's 60 dental schools has peaked so that competition for patients may eventually ease...