Sentences with phrase «desperate quest for»

As his home, the Kingdom of Cavanis, languishes in blasphemy, Adam must face a series of trials in a desperate quest for redemption.

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.

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As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

Without the passion of society for meaning, the search for significance becomes a desperate private quest.

The plot of Silent Hill is fairly simple and involves a desperate father's quest for his little girl.

He's obsessed with obsessives and sympathizes with their quests, like Travis's desire to rescue the teenage prostitute Iris from her pimp, or Jake Van Dorn's desperate search for his daughter through the subculture of Los Angeles's porn industry in Hardcore, which he also directed (both of these intense, unpleasant movies are made under the sign of The Searchers).

One of the monks gets away, mostly because he has been recently imbued with great powers and an ancient scroll full of wisdom and an ability to keep the body young, something Strucker is desperate to claim to use in his quest for world domination and purification.

Joe Adler's performance as an airhead who claims to have a girlfriend named Athena is effortlessly, amusingly weird, and there are likable digs at student driving, the desperate date quest and Ethan Frome: not bad for a well - intentioned flick about well - intentioned kids who worry too much about disco balls.

Some people desperate to pay off their student loans sign up for MLM companies in their quest to raise as much money as possible.

She is put under the eyes of the Chancellor, who, desperate for the princess's safety, would not have wanted her to follow Mario on his quest against Smithy.

As players investigate a shadowy mansion in the dead of night after a near - fatal car crash, what started as a search for aid will become a desperate quest to unearth the secrets behind the manor's tortured past.

When the terrible secrets of this lost city are unearthed, Drake's quest descends into a desperate bid for survival that strains the limits of his endurance and forces him to confront his deepest fears.

Anyways, there's an item of memorabilia from the show that the eldest is desperate to own, so I spent yesterday on another crazy Christmas quest to obtain it for under the tree.