Sentences with phrase «in times of desperation»

And in those times of desperation and despair (or just annoyance), a grown - ass man steps up to the plate with a gentle shoulder rub and words of encouragement.

Therefore, a respected fan base is more likely to aid clubs in times of desperation.

Hope — which is what, in the long run, his essay is about — tends to make itself felt mostly in times of desperation.

It's obvious that when a film begins with a pilot in training that this very same character will be called upon in a time of desperation.

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We face an economy of «exclusion and inequality» in which «the hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so - called rich countries,» wrote Pope Francis, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, in late November.

But uncertainty lays fertile ground for the seeds of desperation, and the Times newsroom has repeatedly found itself a struggling protagonist in the more than decade - long tragedy of American newspapers.

In desperation trying to avoid a worse fate, many of Japan's tortured financial institutions were left open and operating so as to not force losses too much at a time.

With debonair desperation they multiply the telling of stories, making them up as they go along, in the hope of finding one with which, as it is said, they are «comfortable» — at least for the time being, until they feel the need for another that will, as it is said, meet their needs.

The genius of Britain, discovered both in the internal relations of the home country and in the various parts of its actual Empire, is a curiously flexible method for the changing of the status quo — a method which prevented crises from reaching the desperation point, ensured the gradual development of liberty, and provided a model of the kind of change which is just in time to anticipate the resort to violence.

When you do look at references to cannibalism in the Old Testament, you can infer from the context of Deuteronomy 28:53 - 57, Leviticus 26:29, 2 Kings 6:26 - 29 and Jeremiah 19:9, Ezekiel 5:10, and Lamentations 4:10 that just as much as now people at time understood it to be an act of desperation, but it is never explicitly forbidden by God.

There have been times of deep desperation in my life when God has come through for me in remarkable ways, and other times when it's been a long, grueling, agonizing wait — when just mustering faith has taken all the effort I can possibly give.

Anything that you wouldn't do except in times of utter desperation isn't something that you ought to run your entire life by.

The following passage, written at a time when it would have been quite «realistic» to despair of Israel's future, may serve to exemplify the trust to which the revelatory promise calls us, not least in situations of utter desperation:

Obama may have had a change of heart and found a desperation for prayer right in his time of trial but it doesn't compare to the free service Romney gave to his church over multiple years.

I've made what I like to call «desperation cake» a few times — it's 3 tablespoons of cake mix mixed with 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt and microwaved for a minute — and that works well in a pinch.

(I'm reminded of a time when, out of desperation, I cooked pancakes in peanut oil, thinking it wouldn't make a huge difference.

Wenger has taken almost four years to strengthen four positions with world class players, but at the same time he has also failed to address the areas of desperation, upfront and in defence, for the exact same four year period.

Everyone was frightened of Silent Screen, even his trainer, Bowes Bond, who, in desperation to get the colt back to his winning ways of 1969, decided to run him for the first time in blinkers.

Mata, after seeing his side lose in this fixture last season, which incidentally is the last time United lost a match at the Theatre of Dreams, spoke of his desperation to win the derby, saying:

The one time the in - form Black Cats keeper was beaten was a Chamakh header that crashed against the bar when you could sense an air of desperation and frustration amongst the Arsenal players.

If you're a breastfeeding mama like me, you probably shake your hands in desperation wondering how you'll find the time and space to take care of yourself when you can't leave your little.

Many parents are in such a state of desperation to get some sleep, they do not devote the time or attention to fully understanding what sleep training entails.

In a time of political desperation, it seems nothing is more attractive to Labour members than hope.

The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that «in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.»

Thoughts of such ululation of Hon. Bagbin, reminds me of the early days of Chairman Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings in whom citizens of many countries in the third world at the time, craved with desperation to catch glimpse ofand wished he was the Head of State of their home countries.

«The Tory campaign is in real desperation and it was only a matter of time before they went down this route — so it's no surprise it's Michael Fallon who will literally say anything during an election.

Smith, who at the time worked in real estate, said she contacted the Fair Housing Board partly out of desperation.

By the time I crossed the Kamo River on my way home in the evening, I was in a state of desperation,» he later recalled.

Denim in every guise is an essential in any girl or boys wardrobe, it's that trusty item that you can rely on in those moments of desperation where nothing else is right, those moments where you have no time to think, and those moments when understated is required.

Reynolds repeats the original «Deadpool» dynamic of giving the movie at least five times what it gives him in return, turning neediness, self - pity, desperation and narcissism into different kinds of comic fuel.

There's a tedium to the sort of repetition that merely rehashes and recycles the same wink - wink barbs that worked the first time around — but also a relatable, even pitiable humanity in the film's desperation to be liked.

This early work, a garish species of Southwestern Gothic, rolls a little too pig - like in the mud of its shock value, as Joe smoothly manipulates members of this backward brood into humiliation, desperation and, in one of the all - time «What!?»

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

At times Rio Lobo calls to mind King Lear in its rage and desperation, yet more often it's a cranky, mean - spirited mess; El Dorado sometimes increases the relaxation of Rio Bravo to the point of lethargy, yet its bittersweet final image of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum hobbling down the street — adapted with somewhat different connotations at the end of Twilight — touches on realities and emotional shadings that Rio Bravo couldn't accommodate.

The first time we see her face up close, in the midst of a single second she rides the gamut of emotions from workaday desperation, momentary disorientation and, finally, angry gratification.

He's the bastard son of capitalism, the American Dream gone sour in our time of economic desperation.

Though it was never going to be a sunny ride, the sheer desperation, violence and madness on display throughout Snowpiercer's 125 minutes make it one of the most dystopian films we've seen in quite some time.

In what has accidentally turned out to be perhaps the first new release to actually tap into the economic and emotional desperation of our times, this ray of sunshine painstakingly shows us how these young Albuquerque - based sisters wound up cleaning other people's guts off the floor.

The best moments of The Return of the King are those where Jackson's mad imagination runs riot: an Uruk - hai captain that looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback; a battlefield amuck with war elephants («mumaks» in the vernacular) that recalls the desperation of the Hoth sequence of The Empire Strikes Back (itself a landmark of special effects for its time); and a glimpse at some of the ornaments of spider Shelob's lair and various orcan armor that pings off Robert A. Burns's delirious set design for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

If it provides 90 minutes of time - killing in the midst of our quiet desperation, then it's fun for the whole family.

Although his adventures after «Touching the Void» never quite reached the same level of desperation, his life has been in danger many times, as he recounts in his book, This Game of Ghosts.

In his director's statement on the film Gosling mentions being inspired by the time he's spent in Detroit, a city in desperation having been hit hardest by the recession and with thousands of homes and neighborhoods abandoneIn his director's statement on the film Gosling mentions being inspired by the time he's spent in Detroit, a city in desperation having been hit hardest by the recession and with thousands of homes and neighborhoods abandonein Detroit, a city in desperation having been hit hardest by the recession and with thousands of homes and neighborhoods abandonein desperation having been hit hardest by the recession and with thousands of homes and neighborhoods abandoned.

Exasperated because no power to the fuel pump was the only explanation that seemed to make sense and I felt like I was out of things to try, I tried starting the car one last time in desperation... and it worked!

Now, in The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal «Axial Age» can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation that we experience in our own times.

Against that I wanted to dramatize Frankie's growing desperation — echoed in so many reports of the time — her desire for her country to pay attention.

Due to the immense confusion, my reality and my understandings of basic concepts shifted and changed over a short period of time, so I wrote out of desperation, in search of anything that would keep me «steady,» that would keep me anchored to anything solid, to anything of real substance.

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These in - house lenders are known to take advantage of the desperation of their subprime customers by jacking up interest rates and charging ridiculously high down payments — all on top of potentially charging as much as two - to - three times what the car is actually worth.

A couple of years ago, in desperation, we tried putting a humidifier in the living room, where the dogs sleep and spend most of their time.

When I gave Ocarina of Time 3D a score of 9/10 in our review of the game two years ago, it was a score that ignored Nintendo's desperation in rehashing a fourteen year old game to plug a hole in a release schedule that had tumbleweed rolling across its empty expanse.