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The stark, sometimes bleak competitive nature of American capitalism poked it’s head out early enoughthe arriving 16 cast members, Type A all, checked-in with a receptionist at Trump Tower and were all sent to a holding lobby to await their initial meeting with Trump, where no one spoke nor smiled much nor looked kindly.

She looked down at the creased pictures in Delia's hand, the two girls' faces as bleak as her friend's.

Their gossip was of lawsuits over bits of land, of men and women broken by marriage and drink, of cancer, deformity, accidents, decapitation, bone-breaking and attack from farm tools and animals, as if their bleak words could tempt providence to compensate them for the hard times of old age in an unforeseen stroke of bad luck.

After a certain period of waiting and seeing no movement on the road between Keegan's roof and our lane, bleakness settled, large, damp and ugly, like a big insect fluttering in the centre of my being, and my heart began to beat uncomfortably in time to the idea, What if he doesn't come....

Apart from me, only he understood how the radio's urbane chat banished the clay silence of the fields, the awful bleakness of their retained breath in winter, the suffocation of their moist fertility in summer.

When he got out, near the end of his life, he finally followed the joy of his heart, and was a volunteer comedian at hospitals and old age homes The picture my mother painted of her childhood was bleak.

Then, in the forties, cataclysmic events cast an altogether bleaker and more lurid light on Europe and its civilization.

Their life in a war-levelled land must have been bleak, the more so because the skilled artisans such as carpenters and blacksmiths, who could have rebuilt the city, were taken away (Jer.

With two fewer breadwinners, soon another mouth to feed, and a heightening economic crisis, the family's tattered Via Pracchiuso remains—old Adelaide, three adult children, and a niece—faced a bleak future.

And Eli said to her, "How long will you go on drunk?Rid yourself of your wine!"And Hannah answered and said, "No, my Lord!A bleak-spirited woman am I.

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There was Robert Lacey's look at Ford and God Knows, the bleak Joseph Heller novel.

"We get an award for being one of the most livable cities in the country, and tonight we have to look at that," Moncrief said as he eyed the bleak shot.

The clinic, housed in “a run-down warehouse on a bleak, windblown industrial estate outside London,” where Adam is persuaded to part with his body and his savings, is a slice of bland, upbeat bio-horror out of “Brave New World.” Having opted not for permanent occupation but for a six-month rental of a new body, Adam browses among the rows of suspended, refrigerated corpses (“once .

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