Sentences with phrase «sheer desperation for»
Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship.
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We'd got it just right in my view, but the second half I thought was absolutely brilliant as we shut out any threat of a response for the home team who were left appealing for non-existent penalties in sheer desperation.
Call it an act of desperation or sheer need to push youngsters, the Dutch manager gave enough games for Rashford to impress.
As for the major European teams their interest in Wilshere seems close to non-existent; whether that is because of the sheer desperation associated with this summer's window or due to Wilshere's drop in the pecking order in England is debated.
«It is unprecedented in living memory for a [UN]- assisted population to be subject to abject desperation in this way and the sheer humanitarian facts cry out for a response,» a UN Relief and Works Agency spokesman said.
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.
The picture convincingly conveys the sheer desperation of an abandoned street urchin searching for an oasis of sanity in a hostile world without refuge.
For sheer desperation, however, I prefer the cordoned - off recreation of Rhoades's LA living room, with a female voice chanting about her glorious «black pussy.»
A full - time freelance artist and calligrapher for 15 years, I developed a set of tools, based on the metaphor of a «creative sandbox,» for pushing past creative block out of sheer desperation, to deal with my own decade - long crushing perfectionist paralysis.
Perhaps driven by sheer desperation, say, a house that's been on the market for months and just won't sell, or a home that's in less - than - optimal condition, real estate agents and homeowners alike have been known to take some drastic measures.