His bleak depiction of life fighting in the trenches grew in popularity after his death.

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In a rather bleak view of family life in the run-up to Christmas, many older people will depend on television as their main form of company.

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Dortmund's opponents Hoffenheim were fighting for their Bundesliga life and it looked bleak for the strugglers when Robert Lewandowski put the home side ahead after just six minutes -- the 24th of the league campaign for the Polish star.

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If you feel crushed by the legal system, or by faceless, life-sucking bureaucracy in general, you are a living embodiment of the primary theme of Bleak House, whose protagonists, awaiting the disposition of a tangled will, find any realistic hopes and dreams permanently curtailed.

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These twin virtues are apparent in the middle third of this life, which lightly glosses over Friedman's most celebrated insights, such as his refutation of the bleak notion that capitalism is doomed to underconsumption, and his reassessment of the Great Depression.

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