Sentences with phrase «desperate search for»

These handmade glasses have the tiniest gold rimmed edge that I just couldn't pass up, I'm in a desperate search for more.

Armed with little more than your motion - controlled weapons and the scarce ammo and consumables you find along the way, you need to navigate the hordes of zombies coming for your brain in your desperate search for human contact.

If I have to take a conference call from a mountaintop, I would choose that over a desperate search for a land line.

At McDonald at Law, we understand a victim's desperate search for answers and justice.

Environmentalism, whether it is setting fire to laboratories (so much for science then) or campaigning for laws to restrict human freedom, is a desperate search for meaning, in the same way that setting fire to things is a desperate attempt to assert control over a confusing world.

There is «vanishing public concern over «dangerous man - made climate change» and growing discontent with the politicized rear guard's increasingly desperate search for new scare words and its bigoted hate speech hurled at skeptics («deniers,» evoking the Holocaust),» he wrote in 2014.

My problem with Peak Oil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among others).

Most of the paintings oscillate between a maudlin naiveté and a serious, desperate search for something in painting that is worth renewing.

This week, Ai Weiwei will present his new film HUMAN FLOW at the Hammer and participate in a post-screening Q & A. Shot in twenty - three countries over the course of a year, Weiwei's documentary is an «exploration of the global refugee crisis...,» bearing «[witness to] its subjects» desperate search for safety, shelter, and justice.»

He differed from them in that his paintings were introspective, enigmatic, often brooding and vaguely disturbing meditations on the contemporary world and our desperate search for meaning.

Requires either some serious dissatisfaction with the way things are; or desperate search for tonic to drown a wound.

Disillusioned by the failures of the past and the overwhelming complexities of the present, they possess an interiority that reflects a desperate search for meaning.

EPISODE 1: ONE SMALL STEP — Major Kane's investigation quickly spirals into a desperate search for lost team members and the discovery of troubling evidence.

A dark and violent crime thriller set against the backdrop of 1940's Los Angeles Amid the post-war boom of Hollywood's Golden Age, newly - minted officer Cole Phelps embarks on a desperate search for truth in a city where everyone has something to hide.

The desperate search for somewhere to plug in your electronics has been made a thing of the past with the installation of power ports and USB outlets on the desk and next to the beds.

The prognosis is good for a year old sea lion pup that survived near starvation and a desperate search for food that brought the animal nearly a quarter mile into San Francisco.

It's a soul - crushing reality, one we in rescue and animal advocacy constantly wrestle with (and often argue over) in our desperate search for expedient and lasting solutions.

Here's the set - up: Irem Madigan's wedding trip to Rome turns into a desperate search for historical relics, and a struggle to stay ahead of a -LSB-...]

«Five friends continue their desperate search for Princess Sakura's memories, which have been scattered across parallel worlds in the form of magicall

His desperate search for identity is gripping, emotionally engaging, and genuinely unforgettable.

Emily feels a strange affinity with the girl and launches a desperate search for her.

Kunzru's lively, hugely ambitious novel explores humans» desperate search for meaning — whether it be through drugs, religion, computer programming, or UFOs — within the chaos of life, both modern and ancient.

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

Reservation Road (R for profanity and disturbing images) Revenge flick, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, revolving around an anguished college professor's (Joaquin Phoenix) desperate search for the driver (Mark Ruffalo) of the car which claimed the life of his 10 year - old son (Sean Curley) in a hit - and - run accident.

A trip to Kathmandu in a desperate search for some kind of miracle spiritual cure puts him in contact with the Ancient One, a bald sorceress played by Tilda Swinton (a gender and ethnic switch from the comics where the character is male and Asian; Swinton's Ancient One is of Celtic extraction) who by turns torments and trains him in the arcane ways of the mystic arts.

There are isolated moments of humor in The Sweetest Thing, but like the actors they are all in desperate search for a story — or, rather, an actual movie.

All I Wish (Unrated) Romantic comedy about a fledgling fashion designer's (Sharon Stone) desperate search for a soulmate until she finally meets Mr. Right (Tony Goldwyn) on her 46th birthday.

If, in desperate search for a suitable soundtrack, we've turned to Khaled - produced posse cuts and Tyler, the Creator singles, who will accuse us?

The Horse Boy (Unrated) Road documentary chronicling a Texas couple's travels by horseback with their two year - old son across Outer Mongolia in a desperate search for a spiritual shaman who could cure the child's autism miraculously.

Set amid the post-war boom of Hollywood's Golden Age, L.A. Noire follows newly - minted officer Cole Phelps as he embarks on a desperate search for truth in a city where everyone has something to hide.

Man Down (R for disturbing violence and pervasive profanity) Suspense thriller about a U.S. Marine vet (Shia LaBeouf) who is accompanied by a fellow vet (Jai Courtney) during a desperate search for his wife (Kate Mara) and estranged son (Charlie Shotwell) upon returning to the States after serving in Afghanistan.

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (PG - 13 for sexuality, profanity, violence, drug and alcohol use, and mature themes) Faith - based drama about a happily - married couple (Blair Underwood and Sharon Leal) whose relationship is suddenly tested by dark secrets uncovered during the desperate search for their kidnapped, 4 year - old daughter (Zoe Carter).

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG - 13 for profanity, disturbing images and mature themes) Post 9/11 drama about a 9 year - old boy's (Thomas Horn) desperate search for the lock that matches the mysterious key left behind by his father (Tom Hanks) who perished in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Human Flow is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice.

When forced to choose between losing her best friend or destroying her family, a Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and endures heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression.

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).

When the imaginary friends of a young girl living in Australia's Lightning Ridge opal - mining town go missing, the inexplicable illness that befalls her soon prompts her brother to organize a desperate search for his sister's transparent pals in director Peter Cattaneo's adaptation of Ben Rice's popular children's novella.

The movie follows a young woman (Watson) whose desperate search for her abducted boyfriend (Bruhl) draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

Von Sydow captures his character's desperate search for hope and a future in his most vulnerable performance to date.

His desperate search for a guitar results in him being transported into the world of the dead, where the deceased survive as lively skeletons for as long as they are remembered.

Dear Jean, I was just going through old posts in desperate search for a Boston area tailor and saw that you initially suggested Hemmingway in Belmont... but later switched.

Since it's summer, I've paired it with two items you've seen me wear before (and that have been on repeat in my summer wardrobe)-- my Charlotte Russe Espadrille Wedges and my LOFT white skinny jeans (see here for the story of my desperate search for white skinnies!).

We are men who are in a constant, desperate search for new training challenges that push the limits of our physical, mental and emotional potential.

It took getting cancer and a desperate search for a cure that made me rediscover this miracle oil.»

The weird thing is that we still don't know what causes it, and so there's a desperate search for environmental or dietary influences.

Aren't you tired of the desperate search for the perfect workout routine?

In a desperate search for a «bread» recipe.

A desperate search for a life change, a more soulful connection with food and her body, and a desire for continued education in the health sciences led her to study at the renowned Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN).

In the meantime, the desperate search for organs continues daily while many suitable ones go up in flames in the crematorium incinerator.

New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced today.