These provisional hopes are no doubt rather better than despair, for desperate actions and policies are generated in despair. (religion-online.org)
But when the man takes desperate action, it's Wells who is called in to summon her nerve and walk into a dangerous situation. (filmcomment.com)
The film is intended as an ambivalent character study with a fairly unremarkable narrative that addresses the deep folly of desperate actions which, from certain angles, may appear entirely logical. (lwlies.com)