Sentences with phrase «final desperate attempt»

Cheap perfumes are sold to country club playing golfers, stolen Disney Land wristbands are hawked to tourists and sadly selling her body comes as a final desperate attempt at staying above water.
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.

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It seemed Cohn hadn't given up quite yet, and in fact he was planning to make a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind by bringing leaders of industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.
White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is making a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind on imposing the tariffs by bringing leaders of industries that will be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.
HAL seems to express fear as Dave slowly deactivates him, but the desperate pleading could just be one final attempt to carry out his mission.
On top of being structurally unsound and lacking in the humor department, The Sitter veers further off track in a desperate attempt at giving the final product a serious side it doesn't deserve.
Turist (Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, 2014) A near - disaster and its aftermath begets a crisis of faith for two vacationing couples, whose increasingly desperate attempts to address what happened are (despite a florid final act) nothing short of mesmerising.
«There's a scene in Final Fantasy IV (originally released as II in North America) where a vengeful old man called Tellah sacrifices himself in a desperate attempt to avenge his daughter,» says Kasavin.
This certainly gives further credence to the claim that «Final Fantasy» was called such because it was the last desperate attempt to remain in business by a company wallowing in commercial failure.
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