Sentences with phrase «desperate final effort»

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His proposal of an inner church fellowship, which reminds one of the plan that Luther had entertained and quickly rejected at the beginning of the Reformation, represented a final, even desperate, effort to obtain for a minority in the church what he had hoped to realize on behalf of the whole community.

Unlike Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, In Darkness has no genuinely virtuous motive behind all the things Leopold Socha (played terrifically by Robert Wieckiewicz) does in his efforts to shelter Polish Jews who've taken to the sewers in a final desperate attempt to escape the Nazi imprisonment and slaughter.