Sentences with phrase «life of quiet desperation»

Apparently not all men live lives of quiet desperation.

Most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, knocked about every so often by rude shocks or lifted up by brief, brilliant joys.

A chronicle of lives of quiet desperation lived half a world away, understated and thoughtful, cheerless without being morose.»

Finding all three of these loosely interlocking vignettes of Montana women living lives of quiet desperation equally shattering, I concede to the consensus favoring the final third insofar as it is predicated on a simple yet ingenious change to the Maile Meloy short story Reichardt adapted.

Fourteen assembled pieces — books, pamphlets, broadsheets, scraps, a giant board — explore lives of quiet desperation in a Chicago three - flat.

Most men live lives of quiet desperation — Ron's desperation is about to get loud.

Henry Thoreau wrote «The mass of human beings lead lives of quiet desperation.»

The overall effect is of a sprawling, largely alien landscape, bubbling over with tension, danger and lives of quiet desperation.

At the point of departure, we find our heroes in suburban Cincinnati leading lives of quiet desperation.

And set in an unnamed year sometime in the future, Spike Jonze's «Her,» starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man living a life of quiet desperation among the mindless comforts of software, is a beautifully modulated look at the impossibility of love — in this case, between Phoenix and the voice of Scarlett Johansson as his new operating system.

Allen, who's always had a bit of the sad clown about him, evokes sympathy as a middle - aged guy jolted into action after a life of quiet desperation.

Straight from the Midwestern division of the Lives of Quiet Desperation Department, Alexander Payne's b & w road movie introduces us to his latest failed everyman: Woody Grant (Bruce Dern), a cantankerous old coot determined to cash in a sweepstakes prize.

Thoreau once said, «All men lead lives of quiet desperation.»

Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side - step a life of quiet desperation as a small - town teacher, 28 - year - old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing.

But when Smithy's life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, he stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey that might give him one last chance to become the person he always wanted to be.

«Say What You Need to Say — Always» by Shelli Johnson < — Don't live a life of quiet desperation — get out there and put the words on the page!