Sentences with phrase «quiet desperation»

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

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

Likewise, Michael Shannon in Reservation Road is allowed to yell and scream in a movie otherwise filled with 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.

Quiet desperation indeed, but if we were in the shoes of our organ donor protagonists we would have drunk like a fish and smoked a packet a day!

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.

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.

Are they tinged with quiet desperation or are they full of action plans for new business development?

Setting up his scenes in the crowded streets of New York, Director Richard Donner keeps the reins on this production by mixing tense, action - packed scenarios with moments of quiet desperation as the worn - out detective and his nervous sidekick attempt to elude the inevitable.

Overall, my impression was that Phillips wants us to begin reading The Beautiful Bureaucrat with a glimmer of hope, but she then moves us through various levels of quiet desperation with splashes of optimism, all as the action becomes increasingly unsettling.

After years of not - so - quiet desperation, the «missing link» Supercharger in Erie, PA has finally powered up!

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.

Such alienation or estrangement brings about a sense of human frustration, sometimes felt very keenly but more often and with most of us in something like Thoreau's «quiet desperation,» known at moments when we can not sleep or when we are not happy about what we have been doing or thinking.

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

Thus, the mental health revolution is good news both for the hundreds of thousands who are acutely burdened, and the millions who live half - lives (or less) of quiet or not - so - quiet desperation.

A few authors who've paid attention to those sorts of things cite some rather pathetic statistics that «the other woman» should pay attention to: about 3 percent of cheating men marry their lovers, according to Jan Halper (Quiet Desperation: The Truth About Successful Men) and about 75 percent of those marriages end up in divorce, according to Frank Pitman (Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy).

Of course, the odds may not be too good for them; only about 3 percent of cheating men marry their lovers, according to Jan Halper, author of Quiet Desperation: The Truth About Successful Men and about 75 percent of those marriages end up in divorce, according to Frank Pitman, author of Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy.

«To be in the dark about the fate of a loved one who has gone missing can lead families to a quiet desperation of anger, frustration and deep sadness.

Today, in the spaces where I used to daydream, those interstitial moments on a bus, in the shower, or out on a walk, I'm hounded by a guilt and quiet desperation — a panicked need to block my mind from wandering too long on its own.

Let's face it, most of us start meditating out of quiet desperation!

Often, they live in a quiet desperation from not fully feeling they are the creative force in their own lives.

He then decided that Instagram... CNN — When a young single person's fancy turns to quiet desperation.

CNN — When a young single person's fancy turns to quiet desperation.

There's a quiet desperation to all the lives depicted in writer - director Sara Colangelo's assured indie about a West Virginia mining accident that upends everyone in town.

Like the extraordinary Elizabeth Strout novel - in - stories that it's based on, HBO's Olive Kitteridge accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation.

«Fargo» explores the tension that accompanies polite social norms and the quiet desperations they often mask, and many scenes are awkward enough to make your skin crawl.

«Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way,» as Pink Floyd sang and that is exactly what the characters in Never Let Me Go do...

He is the patsy in a bank job, going from the quiet desperation of enforced dependence, to the subsumed rage of longing for a liberation that he, and the audience, knows is ultimately unattainable.

In contrast, the island and its rugged, distinctive geography is shot in a static manner to depict Chuck's quiet desperation.

We feel his quiet desperation in the search for meaning in a life that is slipping away.

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

March 20, 2016 • At our SXSW showcase, Mitski's songs rang loudly in feedback - riddled heartbreak and quiet desperation.

Nixon plays Dickinson's life before her illness with Thoreau's «quiet desperation.»

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.

Brian Dennehy brings a moving world - weariness to the aged, infirm Sorin, while Mare Winningham's Polina, yet another character in love with someone she can not have, crafts a poignant portrait of quiet desperation.