Bleakness

Paying attention is a way for the show to invite emotional connection with the viewers, even amid the horror and bleakness — to make it worth loving these people even as we know we might lose them.

Amid the bleakness, James Amadi, 13, personifies what big oil apologists call, a convenient sob story: he battles chronic asthma, seven years after witnessing the heart-wrenching death of his younger sister, Eunice, to a preventable bout of diarrhea.

Tellingly, these Bobita digressions are presented in gaudy color, a break from the bleakness that surrounds Angela.

I’m sure we’ll see lots more bleakness today, which is why I could use your help to balance things out.

In its unbelievable tension, can be a harrowing watch, but it’s shot with such a total dearth of sentimentality that the bleakness of the landscape Clouzot’s created forces us to care about those who don’t deserve it.

The Russian Romantic era, represented by the first two works, contains some of the most soaring melodies in the repertoire, whereas the twentieth century gives way to bleakness and turmoil.

Mark Leckey: O' Magic Power of Bleakness at Tate BritainUntil 5 January, £13.

Whichever way you look - out to sea, along its winding roads, through the mist towards the terrible hotel, or straight through the screen into Douglas Henshall’s eyes, bleakness is what you get.

There’s a bleakness tinting this outfit’s sound but, despite the chill, their message is positive.

His work often dealt with death, illness, faith, betrayal, bleakness and insanity.