Sentences with phrase «by sheer desperation»

Perhaps driven by sheer desperation, say, a house that's been on the market for months and just won't sell, or a home that's in less - than - optimal condition, real estate agents and homeowners alike have been known to take some drastic measures.

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Been there, been done by that... not to mention having been crowded & smothered to the point where I jumped out of sheer desperation...
was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.
Out of sheer desperation the few surviving cats managed to stay alive by feeding off the corpses of the dead ones.
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