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These include his 2001 «Shopkeeper Series,» simulacra of small business signs spelling out messages of quiet desperation in short word limits (like «SUE, I AM SORRY / PLEASE COME BACK» beneath a sign for «Jim & Susan's Motel»); several photographic portraits of real and fictional characters from the «Historical, Youth and Attribute Portraits» series from the early 1990s; as well as the now - iconic furniture sculpture Lum has been making since the late 1970s.

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

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

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.

It may well be that only the sophisticated — or those who in some lonely moment have felt what Thoreau called «a quiet sense of desperation» — would wish to say that their condition is properly described as compounded of anxiety, meaninglessness, and confusion.

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.

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.

by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.

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!

«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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In those quiet moments of reflection and desperation, he gives us a man who is lonely and afraid.

As graduation approaches and Ozzie's world becomes literally smaller, he struggles to find Tommy with increasing desperation, even as he grows closer to Calvin, the quiet, elusive boy in his physics class.

Marriage Undercover: Thriving in a Culture of Quiet Desperation Bob and Audrey were strong Christians with a television ministry when Audrey had an affair, and became pregnant from her affair partner.

In contrast, a clinical trial among patients with less severe BPD found superiority of DBT compared with other treatments in reducing depression and suicide ideation.28 Both findings fit the 2 - stage model of DBT that targets out - of - control behaviors first (stage 1 target) among more severe patients (stage 1 DBT target) and targets «quiet desperation» such as depression (stage 2 DBT target) among less severe patients who demonstrate behavioral controIn contrast, a clinical trial among patients with less severe BPD found superiority of DBT compared with other treatments in reducing depression and suicide ideation.28 Both findings fit the 2 - stage model of DBT that targets out - of - control behaviors first (stage 1 target) among more severe patients (stage 1 DBT target) and targets «quiet desperation» such as depression (stage 2 DBT target) among less severe patients who demonstrate behavioral controin reducing depression and suicide ideation.28 Both findings fit the 2 - stage model of DBT that targets out - of - control behaviors first (stage 1 target) among more severe patients (stage 1 DBT target) and targets «quiet desperation» such as depression (stage 2 DBT target) among less severe patients who demonstrate behavioral control.