Sentences with phrase «live lives of quiet desperation»

Apparently not all men live lives of quiet desperation.

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

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.

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.

«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!

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As we live in a world desperate for a glimpse of God, desperate for a rescue, crushed by evil and poverty and war and the grind of lonely existence in quiet desperation, we, the Church are part of God's plan to push back that darkness and make space for his Kingdom.

We live with the dust of reality clinging to our dreams, weighed down and far from delight and wonder, entrenched in boredom or quiet desperation, bad news and tragedy.

Steve Carrell plays Dodge, whose wife has left him, whose friends have become unhinged, and whose melancholy is invaded by both an abandoned dog that is relentlessly upbeat, and by his next - door neighbor, Penny, who spills the chaos of her messy life into Dodge's 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.

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.»

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.

I also think a lot about the idea of people living «lives of quiet desperation».