[f] or all the creaking rigidities of our ancient sources, and for all the intellectual skills demanded of a modern scholar in rendering them intelligible, it would be deeply inhumane to deny that, in these centuries, real men and women faced desperate choices, endured privation and physical pain, courted breakdown and bitter disillusionment, and frequently experienced themselves, and addressed others, with a searing violence of language. (religion-online.org)
In the same year he also had a major role in the TV movie Desperate Choices: To Save My Child. (metacritic.com)
Battletech presents combat as a cascading series of desperate choices. (pastemagazine.com)