He gained western recognition during the 1950s and 1960s with a number of bleak films, two anti-war films with The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, Alone on the Pacific ( Taiheiyo hitori-botchi ) and the technically formidable period-piece An Actor's Revenge ( Yukinojo henge ) about a kabuki actor.

Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans — a " combination of lowlife and high tech ".

The act of conversion brought about, within a previously peaceful coexisting community, the expulsion of the ruling Jewish elite into the bleak hinterlands, the burning of synagogues, and the gradual reinstatement of certain Jewish families after the forced acceptance of Christianity and its supremacy and rule in order to allow survival for those who had not already perished.

During a long chase, when things look bleak, Hatfield is about to use his last bullet to save Mrs. Mallory from being taken alive when he is fatally wounded.

Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots ( 1981 ), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world.

Trenchard's requests were rejected by his Colonel, and when the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who was concerned about the drain of leaders to South Africa, banned the dispatch of any further officers, Trenchard's prospects for seeing action looked bleak.

On Tenerife they seem to be not uncommon, while on the other islands, the situation looks about as bleak as on Fuerteventura.

However, Conrad, then about 45, was an intelligent, well-educated, handsome man of great personal courage and vitality – so perhaps her situation was less bleak than some have implied.

He reveals about the bleak upcoming future and cautions his younger self about the hazards of the remotes, and that he credits Vicky's power with the alterations she tweaked to Dictator Week.

In 1929, because of a serious illness ( identified as leucocythemia by his medics ), Cristea retired for several months to a country house in Dragoslavele, Muscel County, but despite the bleak predictions about his health state, he was soon able to return to Bucharest.

Despite positive reviews, the film foundered at the box office due to terrible word of mouth about its bleak ending.

While some of the other resorts in the area were seen as " spiritually bleak ," a young courting Mormon couple could visit Saltair without worrying about gossip.

With a " swanky " wig on his head, a microphone in one hand and a cocktail in the other, Styler sings wrenching songs about lost love, betrayal and loneliness that come straight from his bleak, nihilistic and broken heart.

Meera struggles to keep the group's spirits up, but implies that Jojen has had a greendream about his fate when he reaches home and his future is bleak.

During the meeting, he is told that he is actually the Messiah, who will one day save mankind from the current bleak world and bring about a paradise called the " Thousand Year Kingdom ".

He was actually quite bleak about the possibilities for a satisfactory libertarian model.

His first published article for The New Yorker was " To the Potter's Field " ( 1993 ), a bleak piece about Hart Island, New York.

Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society.

The novel takes its inspiration from South Africa's contemporary social and political conflict, and offers a bleak look at the country.

Its report, released in 1933, assessed Newfoundland's political culture as intrinsically corrupt and its economic prospects as bleak, and advocated the abolition of responsible government and its replacement by a Commission of the British Government.

Derek Wall, in his history of the Green Party, maintains that the new political movement focused initially on the theme of survival, which shaped the " bleak evolution " of the nascent ecological party during the 1970s.

His Anticipation novels were notable for their bleak endings, which was unusual at the time, as well as their new concepts, often incorporating post-1968 political themes such as ecology.

Founded in 1954 by a group of New York Intellectuals, which included Irving Howe, Lewis A. Coser, Henry Pachter, and Meyer Schapiro, Dissent set out to " dissent from the bleak atmosphere of conformism that pervades the political and intellectual life of the United States.

Regarding the gradual unraveling of the reformist movement, an article from The Economist magazine said, The Tehran spring of ten years ago has now given way to a bleak political winter.

" In 2005, J. Hoberman of the Village Voice stated that the film "... has long been a cult item -- in part because its talented 25-year-old director, Michael Reeves, died of a drug overdose before the film's release, but mainly because it is an extraordinarily bleak story of political evil ... Reeves shot on location and the movie has a robust autumnal quality perfectly matched by Price's overripe performance ... it remains contemporary, and even frightening, in its evocation of cynical Puritanism and mass deception.

In the mid 2000s ( decade ) the west coast began to produce its own DIY scene of folk punk artists with a different sound, mostly connected Santa Cruz's Blackbird Raum who feature a completely acoustic lineup based entirely around traditional instruments, but with fast punk rhythms and bleak, political lyrics more influenced by crust punk.

Allmusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and said that " unrest and political corruption are recurring themes on Roorback ", and " the songs that Sepultura wrote for Roorback paint a consistently bleak and troubling picture of the world ".

Much of the show's humour is derived from very bleak ideas and situations.

" The Puritan's utter lack of aesthetic sense, his distrust of all romantic emotion, his unmatchable intolerance of opposition, his unbreakable belief in his own bleak and narrow views, his savage cruelty of attack, his lust for relentless and barbarous persecution -- these things have put an almost unbearable burden up on the exchange of ideas in the United States.

Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods ; dead commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the opposite of life.

The doctors continued to issue bleak prognosis on Selby's life, telling him repeatedly that he could not possibly survive because he " just didn't have enough lung capacity ".

Overall, Sister Carrie was not well received when it was first released due to its scandalous content and its bleak outlook on life and human efforts to change their condition.

George Orwell set out to report on working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Lancashire.

These adversities contributed to Finzi's bleak outlook on life, but he found solace in the poetry of Thomas Traherne and his favourite, Thomas Hardy, whose poems, as well as those by Christina Rossetti, he began to set to music.

On their way back to the hard line, which serves as the exit for " red pills " to leave The Matrix, the crew of Morpheus's ship is betrayed by Cypher, a " red pill " who seeks to return to the Matrix to escape the bleak, harsh life lived outside the Matrix.

Some of Lewis's contemporaries said the novel was too bleak, even humorless, in its conveyance of ignorant small-town life and people.

In contrast to Laxness ' bleak view of rural life in Iceland, Hulda presents a somewhat idealized picture of the old manorlike farmsteads.

The concluding chapters portray the 1998 of the original timeline as a bleak, failing world, the intensified ecological disaster taking a noticeable toll on the human way of life.

The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald was conceiving and working on the book, were certainly the darkest years of his life, and accordingly, the novel has its bleak elements.

Lov runs down to see Jeeter, and asks him if he knows what happened to Pearl, who had run away to Augusta to be free of Lov and the bleak and desperate country life surrounding her.

The show's theme of warfare between two races, and all the issues that come with it, was replaced by a theme of a bleak life on a desolate world.

Lilja lives a fairly bleak life with her mother in a run down apartment block in a squalid, poor town in an unnamed former republic of the Soviet Union ( principal filming took place in Paldiski, Estonia ).

Titan is discovered to be a bleak, freezing dwarf-planet containing liquid ethane oceans, a sticky mud surface, and a climate which includes a thick atmosphere of purple organic compounds falling like snow from the clouds ; and the only traces of life they find are fossilized remains of microbic bacteria similar to those recovered from Martian meteorites.

Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino noted on the official website of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation that he intended to revise Kamille's fate at the end of the Gryps Conflict to something a little more optimistic, in order to better balance out the series ' bleak tone and to better reflect Tomino's current outlook in life.

All the food and alcohol in this short story is described as " tasteless "-- reflecting Rider's grief and his bleak outlook on life.

This bleak situation gives the chooser little room: whatever choice is made, the person making it will lose their life.

The work focuses on Colin, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a blue-collar area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime.

Set in New Jersey during the Great Depression, the film tells the story of Cecilia ( Mia Farrow ), a clumsy waitress who goes to the movies to escape her bleak life and loveless, abusive marriage to Monk ( Danny Aiello ), whom she has attempted to leave on numerous occasions.

Unlike its counterpart, which has gone on to establish a solid foundation, Paris FC have endured a bleak history having spent the majority of its life playing in the amateur divisions.

Set in a bleak palette of browns and greys, it was a comment on the conformity of everyday life, with all figures looking almost identical.

His bleak outlook on life couldn't be any more contradictory to that of Alex's, and Laurie falls in love with him.