Sentences with phrase «desperate actions»

These provisional hopes are no doubt rather better than despair, for desperate actions and policies are generated in despair.

But when the man takes desperate action, it's Wells who is called in to summon her nerve and walk into a dangerous situation.

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.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

Webb's style is at least distinct, right from the opening, desperate action flashback, in which Parker's late dad Richard (Campbell Scott) grapples for control of a computer in a skyjacked plane.

Otherwise, Dwight (Macon Blair) just wanders through a course of unusually desperate actions in a state of almost machine - like automatism, performing many of his tasks in panicked confusion, as if he's observing someone else far more naturally reckless doing them.

While it may be hard to believe that a good natured entry - level risk manager (Zachary Quinto) manages to be the first to scare the chain of command in a Lehman Brothers - inspired investment firm enough to take desperate action and become ground zero of a meltdown, Chandor's casual office dialogue and a powerful performance from Kevin Spacey allows Margin Call to the answer the question «What the hell were they thinking?»

Desperate times call for desperate actions but I desperately hope I am not sucked into the proceedings.

The youths, in a statement by their President, Mr. Otito Yembra, and three others, stated that the abduction of Sakpra's wife was not only a cowardly act, «but a desperate action from characters that seek to profit from their criminal conduct.»

Also starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Kimberly Elise, Beloved follows Sethe (Winfrey), a mother of three who is haunted, quite literally, by her slavery past and the desperate actions she took in pursuit of freedom.

There's a reason behind this desperate action and DP2 rewinds six days so that we can get the full story.

Pegg is credible not only as a comic lead but as a desperate action hero, and he nails the emotional turns necessary as things go south.

Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such dangerous work, but is ultimately drawn into a web of mysteries and stunning revelations that lead her into the heart of the resistance, open her eyes to the horrors of the Nazi war machine, and compel her to take desperate action.

In fact, it's Orton's behaviour that's hinted as being selfish or cruelly off - hand, and we're often reminded both of Orton's promiscuity and his rapid success as factors in driving Halliwell to such a desperate action.