| 单词 | desperation |
| 例句 | “Please,” Ben said, his voice rising in desperation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t know if they ever made it off the elevator. Ever got to the firestorm. If the elevator doors opened on desperation? Or if they were trapped? Elevators shut down.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Sure, buildings were burning, bodies were lying in the street, but the mood wasn’t one of desperation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In White’s desperation to get Hale, he’d committed the ultimate sin of an evidence man and believed, despite apparent contradictions, what he wanted to believe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We’re both breathing too fast and I can feel his desperation taking me over like it’s my own. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Rats, ferrets, weasels and stoats fought with the ferocity born of desperation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My head felt hot with confusion and desperation; I did not know what to do; I wished my mother were present; I wished the police were blotted off the surface of the earth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer tried to keep the desperation from his voice. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her voice filled the room with a heartbreaking desperation not unlike the twittering of a nest full of orphaned sparrows. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Crack led to desperation, desperation led to crime, and crime led to murders and destruction. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Out of sheer desperation I took a handful, also two ambiguous capsules that had a Drowsiness sticker but which I suspected of being antihistamines. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Are you making more jelly beans?” asked Jake, a hint of desperation in his voice. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z However much we fear the punishment for stealing, our desperation is too strong to stop us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear, loneliness, desperation, sadness, even the slightest hint of joy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It’s a vast congregation of hunger, infectious disease, and desperation, masquerading as opportunity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark was at a loss, all plans out the window, relying on sheer desperation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In desperation, Mayor W. A. “Tacky” Gayle turned up the heat. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I walked past neighbors whose eyes overflowed with desperation and depression, people who had watched their once-proud neighborhood become synonymous with the collapse of the American inner city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Prosper wondered in desperation while he got dressed. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z In desperation, I turned and fled into the woods, stumbling over roots and stones, crying as I hadn’t cried for years. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “There, again!” said I, stopping before Herbert, with my open hands held out, as if they contained the desperation of the case. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He called out, a hint of desperation in his voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Out of desperation I’d included some of my old Biology drawings, in hard lead pencil with colored shadings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The smell of home juxtaposed with the sweaty, breathless odor of desperation and the taste of rust in my mouth. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His voice was full of anger, rage and desperation. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Seizing my father’s hand and pressing it hard, I let him feel my desperation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In desperation I uncapped Riptide and slashed at the fountain, cleaving it in two. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z So my mother, in her desperation, hired him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a lesson in what I had done, a lesson I already knew but had disobeyed out of desperation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate the desperation in my voice, but I have been counting down the days to the tournament. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One threw his sword in desperation, but Daedalus and Icarus were already out of reach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In desperation, the clans decided to break out the heavy artillery. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One day, after a visit, she cried and told her sister in a moment of desperation and honesty, “He is so ugly.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Good God!” cried Mr. Pocket, in an outbreak of desolate desperation. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I stare at these faces without features—these blank ovals with hair—looking from one to the next with increasing desperation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He regaled her with stories of Uncle Al’s desperation, and Uncle Al himself made pleas on August’s behalf. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They were the only ones, therefore, who understood how the young commander of the guard had died of love and how a gentleman from a faraway land had been plunged into desperation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Here in 11, they suffer more acutely and feel more desperation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She just feels so alone, like she’s lived her whole life in “quiet desperation” as Thoreau would say, instead of sucking the marrow out of life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z So, out of desperation and grief, Pop stole the money and took her, thinking they’d be safe once they were out of America. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But she could not contain her desperation, her sense of being adrift once again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Cut to the hospital collapsing in on itself, the desperation of the onlookers as I continue in voiceover. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I hope the snapshots come out well,” repeating oneself in desperation, and he “Yes, that one of the square ought to be good, the light was just right.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And Dad, he looked right back, and I could see the desperation in his eyes, because he wanted to save her, too, but he didn’t know how. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I put my hands together, making a pleading motion and hoping the desperation pouring out of my soul will convince her otherwise. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Then, in desperation, he hopped slowly toward it, trying to act as though he had not noticed that it was there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They embraced with the desperation of a parting and slipped down to their refuge suffocating with complicity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a familiar desperation in me, a rising panic that beats loudly in my chest, pounding out each thing I owe. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Mom, Dad, we have to stop them,” Seven said, looking at her parents in desperation. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Opportunities to make plans together became virtually nonexistent, and it was in desperation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took to volunteering to feed the chickens just to escape the overcrowded house. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I try to keep the desperation out of my voice. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I just want to save my friend. Please,” she said, not trying to keep the desperation from her voice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Silent tears spilled from her eyes, and she looked at Dad with such desperation, like she wanted him to save her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I begin, but she gives me a look of such desperation that my words trail off. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Regina’s flexibility and desperation led her to a surprising gamut of jobs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My desperation to see him calm and content gave me extra inspiration. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I know about his melancholy, his ambition, his desperation, the corners of emptiness in him that needed to be filled. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "You could care for the ravens, or Grenn could, or anyone," he said with a thin edge of desperation in his voice. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As the German pilot came in for a killing blow, Galya and Ivan, in desperation now that they were out of ammunition, threw lighted signal flares at him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was haunted by my helpless bureaucratic demurrals in the face of his desperation and the silence of his response. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Please,” she added with a note of desperation. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He wept shamelessly, almost breaking his fingers with desperation, but he could not break her down. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Isaac asked, his voice tight with the same desperation I felt. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Strong feelings, especially terror and desperation, leave an imprint on the air that echo back to whoever’s unlucky enough to walk through that place again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It stank of desperation; such driftwood could not turn the tide of a fight, only get in the way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With every squeal and shout and gasp and “Go, Courtney, go!” that comes out of her mouth, I sink a little further into my festering pit of mingled despair and desperation. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Only my desperation was making me even try. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I take a seat some distance from the tent housing the abandoned animals, watching it with increasing desperation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Vancouver answered in the third period, scoring the game’s deciding goal, and then, when Medicine Hat pulled its goalie in desperation, Vancouver scored a third time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I see Him here, in the eyes of the people in this corridor of desperation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The bars and the stench of desperation, the dried sweat of the hundreds who’ve sat here before me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone else would have been left an invalid by that accident, but desperation gave me strength. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed longingly at the food bowl and then turned to me with desperation and a hint of resentment. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But then they snapped open—on the bus, in the pharmacy—and I felt the intensity of all that looking, the desire and the desperation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Despite his desperation to escape, he loved the nightly excursions with Ampai. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking, I’m thinking,” she said, her voice filled with desperation. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Almost as if I were borrowing Jasper’s strange extra sense, I could feel Alice’s wild — though well-concealed — desperation to have me out of the room, to be alone with Jasper. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It was a place that knew hunger and desperation. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They were full of sadness and love and desperation. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z And there he was, standing at a darkened window, conjured, apparently, by her need and her desperation. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z But someone else came from nowhere to help them: Balthamos, in a blur of desperation, hurled himself between the children and the soldiers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he looks to me with a hint of desperation that he tries to hide. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z We’re all laughing so hard at Mitchell’s attempt to project his idea of desperation, which involves teeth grinding and nostrils flaring, that Boggs has to reprimand us. he says firmly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Tell me why you hunt animals instead of people,” I suggested, my voice still tinged with desperation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Templeton,” said Wilbur in desperation, “if you don’t stop talking and get busy, all will be lost, and I will die of a broken heart. Please climb up!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z In desperation the family began to question whether he would ever stop growing and whether he really was a dog. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s worse than boots, it’s a silk dress,” she said, with the calmness of desperation, for she wanted the worst over. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He was enjoying her agony, seeing and feeling the worth of himself in her bewildered desperation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were pulsating in hectic desperation, flapping like bat’s wings, as the many tall policemen seized him by the arms and legs and lifted him up. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z That this woman, a stranger, could know her despair and desperation, and simply deny her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She cuts me off, spinning around to face me with a surprising amount of desperation in her expression. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In desperation, I write a letter to Elijah Muhammad. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My desperation for her support was in constant tension with my desperation for independence and freedom. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In desperation, Percy scooped up a giant marble and hurled it underhanded like a bowling ball. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now that I’m a Decker myself I understand the desperation to connect even more. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was desperation that had led him to such carelessness and he knew that he could not do that again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He said that I had been outmaneuvered and paralyzed by the government’s actions, and now in desperation I was resorting to revolutionary language. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she told him about her American life, he listened with a keenness close to desperation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Each time he calls, his voice reaches a new level of desperation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He could see her desperation; she was trying to find a way out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He’s probably just trying to get away from the food, but he could also be trying to get away from her desperation for a compliment. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Dell tried, in desperation, to add up the events of the long and challenging month. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was then, in the back of that tinny little car, that I experienced for the first time something like desperation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He kisses me hard, with a kind of devouring desperation, fingers digging into my hair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “My dear Joe,” I cried, in desperation, taking hold of his coat, “don’t go on in that way. I never thought of making Miss Havisham any present.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she had sat here in the cacophonous darkness and felt some kind of desperation take her over, and maybe she found it impossible to unthink the thought of death. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I thought perhaps he could not hear me over the sound of the engine, and in desperation I fired my rifle into the air; but if he heard the shot, he ignored it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It had been foolish even to hope, but desperation will make you believe almost anything. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Finally, in desperation, he fashioned a makeshift net, looping the strands of Gabriel’s blanket around a curved stick. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Kamau’s voice, strong and confident moments ago, was now thin with fatigue, desperation, and...and there was something else, a hint of an emotion it took Ekon a moment to recognize. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She’s balanced on the edge of an artificial hilarity that could topple over at any moment into its opposite, into tears and desperation. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In a final act of desperation, Anya flailed her arms and legs, hoping she would catch it in a vulnerable spot and shut it up for five seconds so she could regain her sanity. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I will always remember my father in this moment, the potency of him, and the desperation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z You can't miss the desperation in my voice as I shove Prim behind me, as if I'm afraid no one will hear and they'll take Prim away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z My grandfather recognized that desperation and knew that now, in his forced retirement, this was the place for him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He recognized his old desperation coming around, a personal comet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around with desperation, knowing that they wouldn’t last more than a few seconds if they stood here. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z When he comes back to himself, back to me, there is fear in his eyes, desperation. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In her desperation she did a fierce and terrible thing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z In desperation I summoned up the last image I had of her, outlined against the satin pleats in her virginal coffin, with her bride’s blossoms in her hair and a rosary in her hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So that you will understand the desperation—the utter devastation—in my heart. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The woman was about his age, but there was, in the photos she sent, an air of hard desperation, hair dyed a brassy blond, eyes burdened by too much blue makeup, top too low-cut. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I ate nothing but bread for a week to save part of the money and, in desperation, sold a skirt from Mrs. Diamants box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In desperation, they resorted to tactics such as strapping small bombs to dogs’ backs and sending them to blow up German tanks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Reckless with desperation, I touched my bloody side, concentrated, and felt a terrible cold tear through me as I pulled more heat from my blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My hands traveled over him, frantic with a desperation I couldn’t name. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “The desperation to find her affected his mind as he got older, and I believe it stayed with him until the very end.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His gaze burned as hot as the fires around us, fueled by anger, helplessness, desperation. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She meant it as a joke, but there was an edge of desperation to the question. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One day in a fit of desperation, or maybe it was just perverse frustration, I put in an application at the Dollar Store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We had surrounded Miss Wren and were pressing in on her, our desperation palpable. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There's a desperation inside me that I want to rip out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It sounded like pain, and terror, and desperation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Another part wonders, with a touch of desperation, what it would feel like to have someone’s lips against mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They saw the images of devastation and desperation, and could not believe that their uncle was living amid all that. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Help us!” he yelled at it in mad desperation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In desperation, he called the Times Boston bureau chief, asking him to hurry to the copy shop with six hundred dollars in cash. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was worse than lust; it was desperation. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but now that I’ve acknowledged it, it’s impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His fingers fumbled with desperation as he heard the driver’s door swing open. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She races to the phone, but in her desperation, she dials several wrong numbers before she gets the one she wants. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z There was a quiet sort of desperation in his voice as he addressed his six fellow team members in the chilly locker rooms on the edge of the darkening Quidditch field. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It feels more like wayward hope or desperation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z On and on she wandered in desperation until she reached a bit of land which was floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie could feel the fear and desperation that radiated off her mother since they’d moved into Daffodil Manor, the same way it had when they rode the train away from Georgia. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He peered into the slots between, almost sobbing with desperation. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Mark went ballistic in a fit of desperation, kicking and kneeing and swinging the butt end of his flashlight at anything that moved. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His flesh could sense the steel that enveloped it was in a kind of trouble, an augmented desperation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't reach for the bottle, not exactly, but I could see the eager desperation in his eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I asked, unable to keep my voice entirely free of desperation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even if it feels small, I have to do something, and I don’t understand why Tris doesn’t feel the same desperation inside her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He threw his head back again and tried in desperation to fill his lungs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I hoped it would mask my perspiration, my desperation. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In desperation, the two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We stay clutched together for a longtime, until the desperation fades. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The prison was not a place of shared hardship anymore; it was a hole of desperation. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And I had taken up a spot that’d opened up in the middle of it all, somewhere between desperation and resolve. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z If the man had any doubts, they were chased away by the sounds of desperation and despair coming from just across the hall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In desperation Roy touched the button once more, and a third picture clicked into view. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Or I’m roaming the streets, or the Annex is on fire, or they come in the middle of the night to take us away and I crawl under my bed in desperation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Speaking to his back, Lupita went on in desperation, “Lucio, I know Salvador would like you and me to be friends.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I thought Adah’s lameness and Mother’s desperation had purchased his sympathy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while the child begins to squall, although Albert, in desperation, rocks it to and fro. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex asked, trying to keep the desperation out of his voice. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He was "going crazy from desperation and frustration." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I waded through the soft-tugging rhythms of hope and desperation, and as I moved among the people, I couldn’t help wondering, if Father wasn’t there anymore, who would lead them? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Julius led them, bent double, peering at the dry grasses and broken scrub, moving slowly, a terrible air of desperation about him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I try to steady my voice, but it squeaks out with an edge of desperation. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the desperation in his voice, and he turned away so that he didn’t have to see the awful sympathy in Kaede’s face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I wondered when was the last time the government had tried to improve National Highway 1, but I wondered even more about the visible desperation of everyday lives. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In desperation she recalled that Kapu had moved forward when challenged. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of desperation, I suppose, hoping to catch a glimpse of the girls. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It haunted me for more than a month, not the words so much as its desperation, and I resolved finally to take him up on his story suggestion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t bother to hide the hurt and desperation in my voice. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Against his better judgment, Nailer crept forward, drawn by her eyes and desperation. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “It—it wasn’t stealing!” said Hermione, looking from Harry to Ron with a kind of desperation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z How could I share with my mother the wildness of my body or the desperation of my mind? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, I don’t know who she likes or doesn’t. It was just a guess...isn’t Justin really popular? A lot of girls like him,” I say with growing desperation. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z His lips are soft, softer than I could have imagined, but there is a hard desperation behind them, a need. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was desperation because I felt so poorly, but I think the reason was more mundane: curiosity. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her anger dissolved, and Hazel saw desperation in her eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Finally, in desperation, I imagined them all in their underwear. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walk back to our seats, Luke begins dragging himself across the screen with complete, desolate desperation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She, too, is now one of them, and in desperation, he looks over at the bird and whispers, “Can you find my brother?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They sought each other with their tongues, as they always did, even though it seemed like a new invention, and fell kneeling as they kissed in desperation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please ...” I hate the sound of my voice, the wheedling note, the desperation. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z No one imagined how much he wept in secret and the desperation with which he tried to revive Melquíades with the useless study of his papers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In desperation I clutched my head and attempted to rise, but I only managed to lurch about dizzily in the direction of the brazier. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiles at me—that smile again, a mixture of gratitude and hope and desperation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Faraci was supposed to be an oxygen molecule, but her outfit—pieced together with coat hangers, duct tape, and cardboard—carried the unfortunate whiff of homemade desperation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, out of desperation, I went to talk to Ms. Gruwell and my fellow Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z What began as a dramatically delusory ploy to recapture her father’s attention turned into a sad tarantella of girlish desperation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He sobbed in desperation and turned, but the thing pursuing him now stood in his path—a colossal being wrapped in shadows, its shape vaguely humanoid, its head almost scraping the ceiling twenty feet above. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Thomas looked up at the enormous walls covered in thick vines— desperation had finally clicked him into problem-solving mode. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in desperation, his father would load him into a horse-drawn carriage and speed through the city streets, hoping the air would be forced into his son's lungs and help him breathe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Ben wondered how many young boys from New England or the Midwest had escaped from their barracks in a fever of desperation and tried to cross the marsh on foot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In desperation I wrenched his ears, pinched him black and blue, but still he continued hollering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In desperation, I even take the desserts out of their glass display case and freshen them up with whipped cream and bright new maraschino cherries; anything to look busy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was desperation in all she said, an emptiness at its core, or something excluded or unnamed that made her talk faster, and exaggerate with less conviction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Hints of my old panic, the familiar desperation to solve this problem, rise in my stomach. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was fear, desperation and hopelessness in the eyes of many. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Their behavior and their desperation is described in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick’s book about how ordinary North Koreans endured the famine years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Thomas helped Newt distribute the weapons, and even more innovative ones were created in their desperation to be prepared for the Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z At last—and this was the part that Mia felt could not be a coincidence—she had, in desperation, gone to a fire station and left her baby on the doorstep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mark gripped the log in both hands, then hammered it backward in desperation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Where do you think it’s coming from, that sense of desperation? What triggered it exactly? Did something happen?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Anger gave way to desperation and Gunwoo gave a short nod. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A surge of desperation growled low in my stomach. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled at me; and it was a smile of slowly growing desperation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “You must help me,” she said, desperation in her voice, “if the baby is, if the baby is . . .” She could not finish the sentence. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The audacity of the Union cavalry charge and its succeed-at-allcosts desperation ignites panic in the rebel force. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s having consented to be interviewed for such a relatively small amount of money showed his financial desperation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a note of desperation in her voice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I have men, at long intervals in some desperation. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This time no opponent broke an ankle, though I’m sure in our desperation some of us secretly wished for it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I could feel the desperation all around me, hear it in the voice. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s come to show the world the drama of crisis and the true meaning of desperation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In desperation, I went to Harry, who disappointed me by saying only, “Look, we’ve all had to go through it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I told her that desperation led you to seek death. I do not think she believes me. She knows that you stole the mandrake, but she bears you no ill will,” Horatio whispered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “She laughs at jokes,” my mother told him, the ice in her voice replaced by desperation, “right at the punch line.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I see desperation, frustration, exhaustion—what I see in the eyes of all the men who have lived in this neighborhood for too many years. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in desperation, I decided to confront her. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He must have heard desperation in my voice. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He gave Victor a look of utter desperation. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z When she looked up, her dark eyes were bright with desperation. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In desperation, he threw his backpack at her, thinking maybe it would turn solid when it left his hand, but no such luck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That’s what I remember most from the discs, a desperation to stay on the pedestal. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Thorn’s voice cracked with desperation, and Seven could think of nothing to do but to continue chipping away at their wood prison and getting the hex out of there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Near desperation after his hard ride, he glanced at the horizon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One woman, whose name was Mosi, screamed with desperation as her daughter, who was about four years old, was torn from her arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z We were now flying through clouds and mists and in desperation the pilot descended and followed a twisting road through the mountains. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Sunday service, the first train isn’t for half an hour, so there’s nothing to do but sit there on a bench, going round and round, from disbelief to desperation and back again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The desperation I’d seen at the bottom of the rock, so real and so deep and so big. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “You remember all them stories I tolt you ’bout my mother and the Ashanti and the monkey and spider stories?” she asked the boy, desperation in her voice. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The bleachers swarmed with youth unanchored, unpraised, and convulsed with the dreams of gangly boys and fat boys who wanted to be a part of something with a desperation that was almost palpable and alive. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And the old king, afraid the desperation would lead the people into disorder, had imposed strict laws with harsh punishments. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Then, in desperation: “Werfel knows more than me! He’s an actual goblin!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z My father refused to complete the financial aid papers; finally, in desperation, I stole the tax returns from the glove compartment of his Toyota and did them myself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He showed her that although she may have held the knife, it was the Fairy Queen who put it there, and the Queen had acted out of desperation and self hatred. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Some fear that Potter might resort to the Dark Arts in his desperation to win the tournament, the third task of which takes place this evening. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Each time the woman left Dad could hardly contain his excitement, so that finally, succumbing to either the woman’s desperation or to Dad’s elation, or to both, Mother gave way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His fear of the orcs, forgotten for a while in his wrath and desperation, now returned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Only she knew what was happening in the city, the madness, the suffering and desperation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But David’s desperation to save his life’s work doesn’t excuse killing off a faction, my faction. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At the same time, it stank of desperation and I didn’t like it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Then she breathed out slowly, very slowly, and all the fear and the desperation that had crept into her since the police had brought her to the orphanage left her. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His wife at his side, Arabella’s father stood at the wrought-iron gates of his estate, first pleading with his daughter to reconsider her decision, then in desperation ordering her not to go. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her desperation for me to be who I was has intensified. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Or in desperation, sell some blood at one of the store fronts down the street from the agency. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stay with her too long in case her desperation rubbed off so I made an awkward excuse and climbed back up into the loft. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “My ride-or-die chick,” he added, and they shared a laugh, a nervous reaction as much as an act of desperation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She loved her parents, though, with a desperation that sometimes scared her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Many Alaskans have wondered why, in his desperation, McCandless didn’t start a forest fire at this point, as a distress signal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, one night, in desperation—I hope that I’m not disclosing the hidden secrets of my craft!—I sneaked out and got a bottle. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z People rushed around her, not in the rhythmic chaos of a mosh pit, but in true desperation. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes he saw himself hunched over his rooming house desk, working on his master’s thesis; he remembered the lonely desperation with which he’d worried the equations. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the desperation in his own voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Except for the salve, which she’d smeared on daily out of desperation, she pushed the gifts to the back of her drawer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I filled myself with such hope and continued to cling to a silver lining, which seemed to disappear as rapidly as my desperation to cling to it increased. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His call to her mixed abiding love with a sense of desperation: “I never wanted your advice and assistance more in my life,” he pleaded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The people at the very back, shoved so recently to the ground, dance in desperation, pounding the backs and shoulders of the people in front of them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Entering the Cadillac with equal desperation from two sides, they were soon accelerating down the beach road and back on the highway that headed from town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m Senator Trueba! For God’s sake, don’t you recognize me?” the grandfather shrieked in desperation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The feeling of desperation was so physically present I could have shoveled it off the dock. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The murder was an act of mad desperation, an attempt to derail the negotiations process. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a howl of desperation and need and sorrow. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Puli is with me because I tempted him, out of my desperation I lured him away from his soil to mine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z As desperation started to kick in, I tried to think of alternate routes my mom and I could take to get out of Belgium. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In desperation the animals began appealing to the two horses which drew the van to stop. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z An animal whine of unequivocal desperation and absolute hopelessness rose in his throat as he ran and ran and ran. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One harassed man, made crafty by desperation, told the mother that he had inside information that the military bands led the soldiers into action and invariably were the first ones killed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella had never seen such desperation on her father’s face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I opened my mouth in desperation, trying to get some air into my lungs, and managed to rise to my feet, but I began to shake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing accidental about a wretched road, or an overcrowded tap-tap with bad brakes, or the desperation of peasant women needing to sell something at market in order to feed their families that night. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In desperation, he drew his dagger and held it before him as an added defense. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of their tactics became desperate, and their desperation made it easier for me to avoid the more obvious traps they set. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knows the telegram boys stop coming when the Angelus rings at six and darkness brings desperation to the women and children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Their desperation made them all the more dangerous. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Reyna didn’t answer, but Percy could see the desperation in her eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I tried to keep the desperation out of my voice, tried to make it sound like idle curiosity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In desperation, he grabbed the bear’s neck to free his arm from the crushing jaws. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He’s concerned that desperation will lead Black women to seek unsafe abortions. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z A spokesperson for the regime told the Telegraph that the movie "shows the desperation of the U.S. government and American society." North Korea denounces James Franco and Seth Rogen's Kim Jong Un movie 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Her Anna — thwarted at work as well as at home — evinces desperation at all times. Review | Beware. This stylish ‘Medea’ adaptation offers no escape, for Rose Byrne or for you. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The only show to rival “Hamilton” in terms of audience desperation for tickets is “Hello, Dolly!” A critic's take on the Tony nominations: Kudos for rewarding inventive shows that take risks 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Once, in desperation, I counted up how many items he left scattered about for me to put away in one day: 50. The Man Who Coaches Husbands on How to Avoid Divorce 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z You lose control of being natural and showing the beautiful parts of yourself, and all somebody recognizes is this total desperation. The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort 2012-09-13T12:00:22Z I became a passive victim, guzzling a bully-me cocktail: mix together equal parts low self-esteem and social awkwardness with a dash of desperation and stir. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Sullen little Pietari mopes in the tracks of inept grown-ups who bungle about in fear and desperation until he finally unleashes an inner valor with a whimsical nod to the archetypal hero's journey. 'Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale': Better watch out, evil Santa is coming to this town 2010-12-09T20:41:00Z It's a book with a lot of violence and desperation, but parts of it are funny. James Hannaham discusses drugs, slavery and 'Delicious Foods' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Hemans tries to register his growing desperation, but that final plea seems marred by the possessive pronoun. Poem of the week: Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 2011-07-25T10:59:41Z New arrivals at refugee camps showed "bewilderment, desperation, exhaustion, anger, fear of an uncertain future," an IRC official said. Iraq, Syria refugees from Islamic State get winter aid kits: agency 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Simms’s performance is a constant surprise, full of buttoned-up restraint, and then wild desperation and touches of something like joy — or as close to that emotion as a woman thrown askew by grief can muster. ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It was her first film in four years, and her desperation for it to be a success echoes her character’s desire for a big break. Female success and male decline: what A Star Is Born tells us about fame, fear and feminism 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It was awful both because it was ugly and because it reeked of desperation and unseemly vanity. Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The film followed a familiar Lifetime arc of desperation, sin and redemption, with Ms. Hewitt’s character emerging from jail and finding a job as a waitress. Television Review: ?The Client List? With Jennifer Love Hewitt on Lifetime 2012-04-06T23:33:50Z For months a veritable league of national types, united by desperation and the English language, push through the cold and the heat, slipping through forests and across mountains and deserts. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z It’s hard to not read “Homeland”’s plotting as substituting one problematic parent for another; it’s harder still to not see desperation under the skin. “Homeland” and “The Affair’s” disastrous finales: Why shows should never force a worn-out premise 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Somehow, we sense that growing desperation will change this picture considerably. "The Colony": "Survivor" meets the apocalypse 2010-08-07T23:01:00Z Her desperation is palpable, as is the needle-in-a-haystack frustration of locating someone who doesn’t want to be found. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Playwright Samuel D. Hunter hears Middle America’s quiet desperation, the low moan of people who have lost their connection to the past, to loved ones, to the lives they thought they’d lead. In 'Pocatello,' Americans struggle to smile through the heartbreak 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”—As a crack-addled mother in an impoverished neighborhood of Miami, the English actress spent only three days on set, but her portrait of addiction, desperation, and broken love is indelible and unsparing. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Along with these perils, “The Dark Road” dissects the morality of desperation in today’s China. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z The authors of ACT's "Double Indemnity" want that humanity to glimmer through — along with Cain's philosophical overview, shaped by a post-World War I, Great Depression America of bleak streets, grinding desperation and shattered collective dreams. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z The songs churn through personal and political turmoil, maintaining the old grunge desperation. Foo Fighters Stand Up for the Power of Rock (Again) on ‘Concrete and Gold’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s a contrived device, but within its narrow parameters, lively, funny speeches locate the humor in panic and desperation. | 'Den of Thieves': Imperfect Crime, Indelicate Outcome 2010-08-25T22:08:00Z The works are meant to evoke “mania, anxiety and desperation,” in the words of the Zwirner press release, but just as often inspire a kind of real-estate envy. Art in Review: ?THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR? 2011-07-28T19:52:58Z She sees the holes in their clothes and the make-do-and-mend desperation of their artistic stepmother, Topaz, as she tries to send them out into the world. Sophia Bennett's top 10 stylish reads 2012-07-12T07:00:00Z So will the move work, or is it a sign of desperation? Can 'Aloha's' first eight minutes on YouTube help the Sony film? 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z A noise of primal desperation emanates from each of the two suspenseful dramas that have been resonantly paired in repertory by Theater for a New Audience. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And the wrongdoing unfolds in Detroit, so it doesn’t take much to set a mood of desperation and decline. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z The countdown to Christmas has begun, but as shopping desperation sets in, remember that books make the best gifts — and they’re easy to wrap and send! Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z We also see the nervous mixture of hope and desperation, of compassion and cruelty, of money and its lack, of the desperate grasp of wealth and the human cost it exacts. An Oil Boom, a Missing Body and a Native Woman’s Quest to Find It 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It's an interpretation of the human condition, an allegory for aging, and a cry of desperation in a rapidly industrializing society. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Treva Lindsey, assistant professor of women’s studies at Ohio State University, says she could watch the video of Graham’s desperation only once. Lonnae O’Neal: The Baltimore mom slaps her son for the ages 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The vital difference is that 25 years ago, Beaufoy understood that such stories are enlivened when desperation cedes the spotlight to inspiration. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Then, as now, for all its violence and desperation, it’s noble and inspiring, too. ‘Free Men’ review: A dark mystery, a gruesome crime, a relentless chase 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Finally, they would tell her, someone had acknowledged their desperation and helplessness. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Fernández’s couple realize that the plant will die one day, taking their love with it, so, in a fit of desperation, they take the plant to a store and lose it among other plants. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z What Naylon thinks that scene captures best is the sense of desperation, the grappling for control. This organizer’s decluttering method isn’t easy. So why do celebs treat her like a guru? 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z My phone pinged several times after my posts: texts from friends mocking my self-mockery or asking if I needed any assistance, in my state of desperation, finishing up those enoki mushrooms. Eating Alone in China 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Ginger is well-meaning, but her desperation to be the perfect surrogate mom sweats off these pages. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z A late-phase gear-shift from the coolly excruciating to a far more aggressive timbre kicks the film into overdrive, and the pals both sink to depths of desperation neither could have imagined 48 hours earlier. The 10 scariest Netflix original movies 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Squeakquel seems not to have been written so much as manufactured from an unwarranted pride in the first Alvin and desperation about what to do next. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z It needs to be played with po-faced gravity to bring out its characters' desperation. Four Farces – review 2013-06-19T16:58:03Z “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” a sequel that trips over its desperation to amuse, needs the running start over “The Flash.” ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton The poor, cold students in Puccini's La bohème, reduced to picturesque desperation in their Parisian garret, long for the coming of spring. La bohème; Koyaanisqatsi/Britten Sinfonia; Der fliegende Holländer – review 2012-12-23T00:09:28Z I have always appreciated the cool temperature that Mr. Eno’s writing maintains, even when matters of death and desperation are being discussed. Theater Review: In Will Eno’s ‘The Open House,’ Dysfunctional Dynamics 2014-03-04T03:00:03Z This lauded actress often rises above her material, and she does so repeatedly in the first half of the film, with desperation but brittle pride as she loses her home and security. Movie Review: ?Tyler Perry?s Good Deeds,? With Thandie Newton 2012-02-25T00:20:20Z Danger, desperation, no hope, no way out, imminent tragedy … all were overcome 400 pages later. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “The trouble is,” said Thomas, “that even if people know the risks, there will be those who will still use it, out of desperation.” ‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The film is about one particularly acute form of human misery and desperation, and a local population's humanitarian response to it. ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The end result is a series that aspires to convey the same level of human desperation as AMC’s other signature shows, but with more decaying flesh, exploding body parts and devoured horses. Television: The Zombie Attack as Stress Test 2010-10-22T18:23:00Z So Lyubasha, driven to desperation by jealousy, performs part of her first-act monologue in front of the cameras in an empty studio. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z Who hasn’t, in a moment of true desperation or fear, surveyed our world and found only ugliness? A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It's a violent, visceral, claustrophobic affair, reeking of sweat and desperation. The Disappearance of Alice Creed; Revanche 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z People dogged by the spectrum of symptoms labelled as a gluten intolerance turn hopefully, or in desperation, to the burgeoning, highly lucrative larder of gluten-free alternatives that manufacturers have put on our shelves. Not just a fad: the surprising, gut-wrenching truth about gluten 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Like other children of celebrities, Vera lives a life of quiet desperation in her father’s shadow. ‘Vera’ Review: No Faking 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z There’s usually an anxious quaver in his baritone, and when he raises his voice he reaches a throat-scraping desperation. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The subject is erotic desperation, and the lyrics are racy to the point of raunchiness. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z An instant sense of hopefulness, tinged by desperation. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Apparently Simm took lessons to learn how to scythe, and you could see him building up a muck sweat here as he attacked his fields in increasingly impecunious desperation. Rewind TV: The Village; Jonathan Creek; Game of Thrones – review 2013-04-06T21:45:01Z Even party ballet Elite Syncopations, MacMillan's 1974 setting of Scott Joplin rags, has an acidic aftertaste: the girls simper and the men strut with an unnerving edge of desperation. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z The English songwriter and producer Sipho Ndhlovu revels in drama and desperation, with a voice that regularly leaps between grainy declamation and a tearful falsetto. Selena Gomez’s Boldly Revealing Ballad, and 9 More New Songs 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z I love the first-syllable exclamation in “Oh! Darling,” though: Its clipped agony contrasts with the way Paul McCartney stretches out that “daaaarling” and effectively captures the raw-throated desperation of his vocal. An Exclamatory Playlist! 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z No desperation Can break down the walls of the halls where I’ve chosen to dwell. Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z That strangeness is typically the result of our knee-jerk assumption that doing things alone equals desperation. How to be alone 2012-08-04T23:30:00Z In 10 words she evokes all the desperation and determination and love that colour the book. Katherine Rundell's top 10 descriptions of food in fiction 2013-07-23T14:23:39Z The characters’ quiet desperation to hold on to the ones they’ve loved becomes a sort of trap. Review: ‘Marjorie Prime’ and Jon Hamm: Ceaselessly Into the Past 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z She’s approaching the possible Final Days in desperation, hoping to find — and most likely use — the physicists’ Departure Machine before it’s too late. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z This, along with the desperation to possess, seemed a greater motivation among these collectors than an actual love of wine. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z They were grounded in a bold, undogmatic feminism; they wielded the power of rock to lash out at abuses of power and to look inward at desire, confusion, desperation and defiance. Sleater-Kinney Reunites 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z A kidnap attempt on Chango’s daughter goes terribly wrong, the film’s tone of desperation rising as it becomes clear that the kidnappers are motivated by something other than money. Movie Review: ‘Graceland,’ a Manila-Set Thriller by Ron Morales 2013-04-26T01:03:11Z Visually claustrophobic and sonically ominous, it adds to the sense of desperation. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z There’s an undercurrent of danger and desperation in his new crowd, and you might find yourself worrying about Stevie even as you revel, vicariously, in his newfound pleasures. Review: ‘Mid90s’ Skates Back to a Less Innocent Time 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The timing is pretty good too: Florida real estate and horrible desperation in offices is now in vogue. Review: Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' crackles 2012-12-10T02:37:10Z It’s no wonder that by trying too hard to be dumber than its predecessors, this “Sharknado” smells strongly of desperation and dead fish. Syfy’s ‘Sharknado 3’ tears through D.C., smelling too strongly of dead fish 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The story keeps you on your toes with the mystery of Margo—and it’s one of desperation all too reminiscent of Hazel and Gus’ journey to Amsterdam. Next Movie for The Fault In Our Stars Fans? John Green's Paper Towns 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The season for dining al fresco, concerts at the Greek, movies at Hollywood Forever and hunting with a wild-eyed desperation for any pool in which you might find a moment of cooled-down peace. A beach house residency, literary happenings and the bookmobiles and book clubs of yore 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Still, a note of desperation crept into his defense. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “To be or not to be” was never uttered, but Hamlet stormed across the stage, gesturing to convey desperation. Hamlet (and Others) as the Strong, Silent Type 2011-01-22T00:26:37Z In Carell’s eyes I saw my eyes –my pain, desperation, anger and terror. The real life people behind Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carrell’s film Beautiful Boy 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z But at some point, the effort has a hue of desperation, and that’s when it undermines you. Perspective | There are certain realities in being an upright mammal over 50. Let me tell you a few. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z To balance joy and desperation as gracefully as Mr. Baker does — to interweave giddiness and heartbreak — is no easy feat. Review: In ‘The Florida Project,’ Enchantment in a Shabby Motel 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z At one point, in desperation, the black dress is twisted into the form of a burqa, leaving only her anxious eyes exposed. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z “American Buffalo” is a heist comedy about three small-time criminals hoping to steal a possibly valuable nickel, but its also a no-holds-barred portrait of lowlife desperation and greed. Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss eye Broadway 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps that's because of what michelley describes as "the note of desperation by a songwriter who oft gets accused of facile emotion". Readers recommend: solo Beatles songs – results 2012-06-21T11:53:16Z It revealed a new kind or desperation, and a new kind of hero. Malcolm Browne: man behind iconic burning monk photograph dies aged 81 2012-08-29T06:00:07Z But it happens to be the perfect instrument for the manic desperation and sardonic defiance of his band, Cage the Elephant. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z And stir compassion for her Depression-era desperation and curdled Old South nostalgia? A strident, ghostly revival of 'Glass Menagerie' at Seattle Rep 2012-11-03T14:31:04Z And yet, she continues, there is no point to giving in to desperation. When Maya Angelou was interviewed by Studs Terkel 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z As the show’s star and executive producer, Williams sought to explain the human desperation and systemic inequity underpinning criminal industries, which in the new season include online scams, illegal cannabis markets and bootleg body enhancements. For Michael K. Williams, a Legacy Interrupted 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Tucked amid the surging major chords are lyrics full of mayhem and desperation. Playlist: Industrial Hip-Hop And Bouncy Sociopathy 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z Mr. Wahlberg plays the moment with the right level of desperation, but Ted’s lines are depressing and desperate. Review: In ‘Ted 2,’ the Foulmouthed Bear Tries to Prove He’s Human 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He could convey the swagger and haplessness of a two-bit crook, the authority of a hardened homicide detective, the unctuous ingratiations of a yes man — as well as a sense of vulnerability, desperation and weakness. Jon Polito, a Favorite in Coen Brothers Films, Dies at 65 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z But there was always something creepy and grasping about Flora’s Nativephilia, her desperation to convince people of her Indigenous heritage. Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z At work you will become more motivated, assertive and efficient via a mixture of desperation, exhaustion and a distorted perspective on what you can achieve. Having a baby will simplify your life 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z But, as a leftwing writer, Odets also understood economic desperation, which he vividly shows in one of Ben's impoverished tenants who resorts to selling his own blood to survive. Review 2011-03-31T00:48:58Z In her most ambitious bit in the new special, she dramatizes texting a boyfriend, veering from angry dismissals to heartbreak and desperation in mere moments. Leslie Jones Is Ready to Rock the Boat, Hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The funeral march journeyed from distant desperation through a serenity too perfect to last, inevitably if cruelly destroyed with renewed steel. Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z And yet, through a careful marrying of desperation, love and awareness of the world as the narrator sees it, Ruffin makes us understand how it is that this man might have become broken this way. In This Ingenious Satire, a Father Goes to Extremes to Protect His Son From Racism 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Shepherd is good on Victorian London, with its fogs and winds and lives lived, particularly by women, on the verge of desperation. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z Sensing her desperation, Marlo’s brother buys the baby shower gift that every strained mother dreams of: help. 'There's this idea that mothers are completely selfless': Diablo Cody on Tully – and the Juno backlash 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The striking British avant-R&B singer FKA Twigs harnessed minimalism both sonically and visually, moving in tight motions in key moments as she sang about desperation and obsession. Coachella fest outdoes itself as a rollicking Sim City 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z So was the rest of the show, where an air of desperation gnawed at the employees, trapped as they were by their dead-end jobs and obligatory contact with their overwhelming boss. 'The Office': shutting down on NBC after 8 years 2013-05-14T14:26:08Z “It was out of pure desperation,” Allen says, that he lugged an antique ironing board from his apartment to Prince Street in SoHo and arranged about 10 hand-carved objects on top of it. T Magazine: Diamond in the Rough 2014-04-11T13:03:38Z The slashes of rain cutting diagonally across the canvas suggest the desperation of his mindset. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z "If I'm Not Home: Ron Cooper, A Jazz Life" captures the luster and virtuosity of Cooper's vocals, as well as the quiet desperation of his days and nights. The jazz singer: Telling a tragic tale on film 2011-02-21T14:21:00Z It suggests lives in transition, whether from desperation or from being on the cusp of a big change. Review: In the Binge-TV Age, ‘Room 104’ Offers a 30-Minute Escape 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Meeting those for whom the decision to pawn is often forced by desperation, divorce or bereavement, the friendly patter of Borro's sales team leaves a slightly unpleasant taste. Tonight's TV highlights: The Pawn King 2011-01-14T08:00:01Z “The upgrade plays to Ms. Baranski’s range, as she conveys both Diane’s desperation and the will it takes to master and move past it,” James Poniewozik wrote in his Times review. What’s on TV Sunday: The Oscars 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z She read for Natalie, a sycophantic acting student whose desperation was not entirely unfamiliar to her. How D’Arcy Carden finally found her ‘Good Place’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z I went through several that failed miserably and even tried a human nose hair clipper in desperation. You Missed a Spot: How Not to Groom Your Dog During Lockdown 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Linssen says those profits were largely because symphony representatives were forced to approach donors in desperation, because of the orchestra’s dire financial situation. Despite profits, Green Bay symphony still to close 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Nina Simone's intense Sinnerman explores one individual's desperation for salvation as the sea bleeds and the rivers boil; the sins foremost in her mind are perhaps those of racist oppression. Readers recommend: songs about the end of the world – results 2013-01-10T14:00:02Z In a tiny fraction of the time it takes for Mr. Lee to finish off that cabbage, Vivien Leigh conveys the same desperation. ‘Stray Dogs,’ by Tsai Ming-liang, a Tale of Alienation 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Alluding to her first novel, Ms. Brookner told The Paris Review in 1987 that she began to write “in a moment of sadness and desperation.” Anita Brookner, British Art Historian and Novelist, Dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Desperate, I told myself, but not insane — desperation and insanity were two distinct, if bordering, states. The Dress Promised Me Something the Doctors Couldn’t 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z One of Thompson's critics has called him without disparagement "a dime novel Dostoevsky" and there are elements of traditional tragedy in Lou's story of small-town desperation and madness. The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z But the writers’ desire for the same may be wrapped up somewhere in Erin’s own subtle desperation. 'Ghostbusters' Writer Shares Her Favorite Misogynistic Troll 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The protagonists from both parts are united by their desperation to secure passports — the dream of escape hangs over them, while the complexities of Lagosian life are captured with empathy and wistful resignation. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Speaking of cries for help, Ms. James leaves herself badly exposed by this book’s flagrant air of desperation. Review: E. L. James’s ‘Grey’ Goes Inside His Brain, and, Yes, His Pants 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In desperation, I went to church and prayed for a role. How we made: Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles on To the Manor Born 2013-04-15T16:30:09Z As performed with dexterous felicity by the reliably excellent Mr. Birney, this seemingly mundane half-conversation offers us a devastating glimpse of the submerged desperation beneath Joseph’s veneer of chipper carrying on. | 'Tigers Be Still': Escaped Predator? What Else Is New? 2010-10-07T02:01:00Z The wild energy and eclecticism of his writing sometimes seems born of freelance desperation. Poem of the week: A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood 2010-06-22T09:36:00Z The name is entirely, evocatively on-target: Tillman's faded folk-pop is the sound of a cynical saint on the outside looking in, voice tender and tense with equal parts desperation and resignation. Pearly Gate Music knocks on heaven's door at Neumos on Monday night 2010-07-16T22:56:00Z The mural project is part inspiration, part desperation. Street Artists Paint ‘Aqueduct Murals’ at the Track 2013-12-09T19:51:21Z Make that between laughter and everything that feeds pain: rage, hatred, desperation, hopelessness, fear, even physical disease. Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit’ Blends Rage With Gallows Humor 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z And on Instagram, the airbrushed mirage of mothering is being challenged by displays of raw desperation. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z All this weighs pretty heavily on Petty, who worries that his bad luck is not just a slump, but an irreversible trend toward desperation. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It isn’t luck, pluck or happy coincidence that propels Balram from his ragged beginnings to sleek triumph, but cunning, desperation and a coldbloodedness that can masquerade as servility. ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z What Wallace is describing is a kind of desperation, a desperation that repels him but to which he relates. Will 'The End of the Tour' warp the way we think about David Foster Wallace? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Gone is most of the video content hurled on the jumbo screens in desperation whenever Sheen felt the show unraveling. Charlie Sheen hits New York - but what IS the show? 2011-04-10T00:08:52Z El Sistema’s aim is to address a depressingly universal problem: how to remove children from poverty’s snares, like drugs, crime, gangs and desperation. El Sistema, Venezuela?s Plan to Help Children Through Music 2012-02-15T23:42:27Z It's a stark new reality for so many powerful corporations that have relied on the desperation of entry-level minimum wage workers for so long. We aren’t only facing a supply chain issue — for grocery workers, it’s also a labor rights issue 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Machold said he acted in desperation after losing a lawsuit brought by a construction company which meant his Eichbuechl castle was at risk. Stradivarius dealer gets six years for embezzlement 2012-11-09T20:08:09Z Despite his fondness for action, Miike also explores darker themes in the film including the morality of protecting criminals at the expense of victims and how financial desperation breeds violence. Week two of Cannes film festival gets off to explosive start 2013-05-20T13:22:25Z Is a life of quiet desperation somehow ennobled if it’s shown on television? Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z Layered on top of everything else is Diane's desperation over her missing son and her growing fear about her husband's role in the mine accident, which draws her into Amos' empathetic embrace. 'Little Accidents' mines small-town tragedy with Gothic grit 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The men have a stiffener in a pub where they taste the odd atmosphere: there's relief and exhilaration, but also violence, resentment and desperation in the air. Night of Triumph by Peter Bradshaw – review 2013-06-12T15:00:00Z I mean, he certainly applies his intellect, but there’s not a desperation about it. David Bowie on His Favorite Artists 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The show doesn’t necessarily endorse its characters’ actions, but it presents the desperation of so many Americans with a dash of much-needed gallows humor. Perspective | Why Peg Bundy was the true ’90s-sitcom domestic goddess 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z They are the last ungentrified sections, where the streetlights seem too dim, and the air is humid with threat and desperation. Review: Liam Neeson Gets Taken on A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In the Willow Song from Rossini’s “Otello,” she hardened her tone just a bit in the second verse, swelling the tension and conveying, without overstatement, Desdemona’s growing desperation. Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Journey Through Venice’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Wood, a year after her memorable turn in West Side Story, is great here: she lets us see that beneath the verve and vitality of her stage persona are great reservoirs of sadness and desperation. Naked Ambition: Top 10 Memorable Movie Strippers 2012-06-29T12:00:19Z In a moment of desperation and frustration he sent out an email to his colleagues with the heading A Few Wise Words from Brain-Dead Manager. The Perils of Email Auto-Fill 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It makes for an enjoyable but conventional evening that almost misses the desperation pulsing at the heart of the play. Vieux Carré – review 2012-07-20T14:42:31Z Moyes writes movingly of how easy it is for a child to be damaged by well-meaning adults, and we see how the same family can swing from grinding desperation to domestic bliss. Jojo Moyes’s new novel, ‘The Horse Dancer,’ has a Dickensian spirit 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “It’s not every actress who can be buried up to her neck, and communicate both the desperation of her circumstances and an optimism despite them. You were laughing and crying at the same time.” ‘It Was a Crusade’: Karen Brooks Hopkins Revisits Her BAM Tenure 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z To the extent that Joe Buck, the film’s faux-cowboy hustler, opens himself up to trade with other men, it’s tied to desperation and shame, not the pursuit of latent desire. Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z But in truth it was more about desperation. When a girl meets a guy and they make pizza pie, that’s amore 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z One of these is vulnerability to belief in deities that maximally excite the innate model under the right conditions, especially those of infantile helplessness and desperation. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z The trailer, at first, plays like a montage of home video reels—Jackie as dignified public figure, picture of elegance, doting mother—but quickly ratchets up the drama of sudden loss and grief and desperation. See Natalie Portman in the First Trailer for 'Jackie' 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Yes, she may be drawn into risky behavior solely because she can gain thousands of dollars that can ease her current desperation, but if she goes into it willingly, is it right? Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z And “Don’t Leave,” produced by Tank, is lovely and brooding, with hints of true desperation. Omarion and K. Michelle, on Parallel Tracks, Release Albums 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Dagger’s wimpy Shawn is a believable beta male whose desperation for social standing leads him to dark places, and Howard’s Maggie is perfect as the peppy type whose “daddy’s girl” veil hides a sinister reality. ‘The Antelope Party’ Review: Friendship Is Magic, With Exceptions 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z PB There is a desperation to Alan but he's generally an incredibly positive person. Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z Anger feels better than desperation, so I look it up on my phone. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Porter was always part of the upper crust and felt comfortable with it; Coward was an intruder and covered his desperation to be part of it by sneering at it. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z But the quiet desperation of "Would You Fight for My Love?" should resonate equally with Drake loyalists looking forward to swooning along with the rapper's tender "Hold On, We're Going Home." Jack White bridges the genres at Coachella 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A suited, spectacle-wearing Di Botcher charges hell-for-leather through “Broadway Baby,” her powerhouse vocals accompanied by a face riven with desperation and fear. Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ Is Back, at Once Bleak and Beautiful 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Interweaving monologues about these ordinary lives filled with pathos, desperation and a stoic sense that everything will be just fine, Mr. Kitson shapes a strangely hopeful story about what we learn from loss. Theater Review: Daniel Kitson’s ‘Analog.Ue,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2013-12-05T03:00:01Z Maybe the desperation among women has gotten worse in tandem with their rising responsibilities in the working world. Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z "The story of food in Singapore is one of desperation," he says, describing how some now accepted constituents of popular dishes were originally added because poor migrants couldn't afford any better. Meal Ticket to Ride in Singapore 2010-06-23T09:20:00Z A taut moral thriller, “Styx” is a story of what happens when self-reliance runs into other people’s desperation. ‘Styx’ Review: The Refugee Crisis as Moral Thriller 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z His Detective Monday is a combination of desperation and exasperation, a wide-eyed maniac impatient with rage but not so impatient to make the kind of clever, deranged asides Christopher Walken would appreciate. Review: Shannon rides away with 'Premium Rush' 2012-08-23T14:09:08Z But while the British soprano Katherine Manley sang her part with chiseled grace and silken tone, her texts, recalling scenes of grinding poverty and desperation, always maintained a retrospective distance to the events she describes. Review: An Unsatisfying Opera (or Is It a Lecture?) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Again with Beethoven in mind and again writing for the Berlin Philharmonic, he made his Ninth a choral symphony — and a drama — telling a story of desperation and hope set during the Nazi epoch. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z Riegel makes the siblings' fear and desperation palpable, shooting much of the film in an icy cold, bluish gray light that reflects their emotions and magnifies their chilly situation. The compassionate "Holler" encapsulates the desperation of everyday American poverty 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Even when I was making terrible decisions, I was making them out of desperation rather than ignorance. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z Aaronow, on the other hand, is entirely vulnerable, an open wound of desperation and fear. Alan Arkin Could Do It All. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ He Did. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Jonathan’s desperation and Satan’s surprising neediness are almost sympathetic. New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Despite its sense of dead-end desperation, “Stray Dolls” is made worthwhile by the richness of Shane Sigler’s nighttime cinematography and the consistent empathy of its tone. ‘Stray Dolls’ Review: Woman on the Verge 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And the truth is, I was in such a place of desperation, I didn’t care. Zack Snyder’s Rough and Tumble Ride With ‘Justice League’ 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Yet Penn gives him a vivid, wheedling desperation that’s weirdly moving, and the younger Penn has clearly inherited the emotional expressiveness of her mother, Robin Wright. ‘Flag Day’ Review: Daddy Dearest 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It is filled with shame, sadness, furtive desperation and a consistent sense that they are a long way from home. Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Tears for Fears tapped into primal feelings of joy, desperation, yearning and optimism. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The New York one, rewritten in desperation, did not. David Henry Hwang’s ‘M. Butterfly’ Followup: ‘M. Turkey’ 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The same level of grief and desperation that Kennedy captured in her film was on alarming display this week, as thousands of Afghans crowded the Kabul airport in a frantic attempt to escape the country. Perspective | Even the best films about Afghanistan couldn’t have prepared us for this scene 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z But in capturing the melancholic desperation of a prophet’s pleas to his people, Bernstein summons his own young, brash voice. Review: Can a Busy Yannick Nézet-Séguin Do It All? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In desperation he e-mailed their script to Mr. Van Sant from an airport runway. Matt Damon and John Krasinski on ‘Promised Land’ 2012-12-21T20:49:44Z Google’s former engineering director James Whitaker blogged about his last months on the job as “a whirlwind of desperation, trying in vain to get my passion back.” Cultural Studies: Parting Is Such Sweet Revenge 2012-08-10T21:10:47Z On telly, her mental mutton Barbie look dominates; on radio, there's no desperation, just her cheerfulness and bright mind. Rewind radio: Vanessa Feltz; Music Planet; Showstopper ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:21Z The song’s propulsive glitter is rooted in personal desperation. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Back then, it was every republic for itself, fierceness fueled with desperation, flamed by ingenuity. Genoa Isn’t Rome or Florence. That’s Part of Its Charm. 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z I wondered if the wooden poles scattered across the island, totems of the indigenous Buryat religion, were even more covered in colorful prayer ribbons during this time of global desperation. Missives From My Locked-Down Friends, From Siberia to Samarkand 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z As I grew older, though, I began to understand that Thoreau’s claim that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” was not social criticism but personal confession. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Such empty performances engender a particular type of desperation, especially for those who see a lot of shows. Dance Review: Matters of Faith, Prayer And Physical Exertion 2011-01-14T23:06:31Z We see the bias of teachers, the violent encounters with the police, the underfunding of majority-minority schools, the dehumanizing desperation of systemic poverty and the violence of neighborhood bullies. Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z For every band that manages that transition with grace and purpose, there are many more that seem driven by desperation, having exhausted the usual options. New Music: Albums From Wye Oak and Sd Laika 2014-04-28T21:13:32Z She resorted to writing her answers on a piece of paper, a metaphor perhaps for the desperation to connect in the quarantine. Comedy via Zoom: It’s the Golden Age of Mugging 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z In “The Catherine Wheel,” a boy named Andrew is fixated on eliminating all rivals in his desperation to be close to another boy. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The reader cannot be surprised when Lina’s desperation leads to an affair with her high school sweetheart. Review | Lisa Taddeo’s ‘Three Women’ examines the way men’s actions shape female desire 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Oily, bluff, bullying, insecure, misogynistic and, as he described himself, "homoskeptic," Partridge was a living satire of small-screen smugness and desperation. The Trip: Great Impressions 2011-06-10T18:45:00Z Freedom eludes Little Edie, who spends That Summer and Grey Gardens yowling her desperation to escape to New York. That Summer: the story behind the 'other' Grey Gardens documentary 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The movie shows its audacity, or betrays its desperation, by begging comparison to a pair of masterpieces. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z In desperation I gave Kim the DVD of the "Friday Night Lights" first season for Christmas one year. A bittersweet farewell to "Friday Night Lights" 2011-07-15T17:10:00Z “I need you to love me,” he said, with a hint of desperation. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z And often, behind the sleek electronics and the tidy vocals, a certain desperation comes through. In ‘Glory,’ Britney Spears Promises Pleasure, but Offers Nothing Personal 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z As a human I am disgusted with your what appears to be desperation and poor execution. This week's top five music links 2012-06-08T09:24:00Z That wasn't the image that Bertolucci had hoped to set against the rutting desperation of Paul, Brando's character. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z Lucia’s desperation culminates in one of the most challenging mad scenes in opera. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Untroubled by other people's definitions of reality, Lou burns with a terrible and terrifying desperation. 'Nightcrawler' cuts it close in its dark look at local TV news 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z And now, finally, Jimmy’s desperation has hardened into something much darker. 'S’all good, man': How Better Call Saul became superior to Breaking Bad 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “These questions of desperation, of loss, are present in his work in an abstract fashion, but at the same time anchor it in the tumult of the world.” An Artist’s New Migration Song 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Seven years have made a major difference: in 2005, 27 Dresses purported to show the desperation of a single woman, played by Katherine Heigl, who had to be a bridesmaid 27 times. How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss 2012-06-01T15:30:00Z Underlying the tensions is a powerful bond forged on the edge of desperation. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Over the years, the genuineness of Alicia’s growing desperation has elevated “The Good Wife” from a melodrama about power and betrayal into a nearly philosophical meditation on the risks inherent in moral life. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The new teacher guessed that the course’s popularity stemmed in part from a desperation to learn the grammar and syntax that permissive English teachers had ignored. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z As winter’s onset gets delayed, what should be a time of getting fatter has become a time of increasing desperation. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z The awful, almost unlistenable climax transmits a terror and desperation that surely still doesn't even come close. Readers recommend: songs about capital punishment – results 2013-07-11T13:00:00Z From the opening to the closing ceremony, from the torch relay to the cheers for gold medals – these all displayed the might, and the desperation, of a totalitarian regime. Ai Weiwei: China excluded its people from the Olympics. London is different 2012-07-25T16:47:53Z Various parties’ desperation to treat it as a political football serves as a reminder that this is never about women’s rights for them. Harvey Weinstein’s rehab – just your basic $2,000-a-night sex offender programme 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But as Edison's desperation in this battle against Westinghouse grows, Cumberbatch's performance becomes more internal, as if he is absorbing all of the blows and does not want to admit defeat. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Pat Jr. should pay more attention to the young woman, Tiffany, who has acquired a reputation as an easy lay, stemming from her desperation after her policeman husband died. Silver Linings Playbook: A Little Romcom Gets an Oscar Push 2012-11-15T18:03:43Z My eyes couldn’t cope with box sets or books, so in desperation I taught myself how to arm knit a throw. How wool got cool 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Knut Hamsun’s novel, “Hunger,” evokes the desperation and loneliness. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Hers was a manner of uncomplaining integrity, the everyday “quiet desperation” Thoreau lamented. Richard Ford’s new memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z This, in simple terms, explains the desperation of Bond producers Eon to retain the services of Daniel Craig, given that Bond’s evolution happened on his watch. Why James Bond couldn't afford to lose Daniel Craig, a true Hollywood heavyweight 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Lastly, businesses should not take advantage of people's desperation by increasing food prices. High food prices could have negative long-term health effects on Canadians 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Methfessel had easily read the desperation in Bishop’s fantasy and scolded her: “your wishing to be struck by lightning” is “not ok. . . . Cut that out!” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Our desperation to entertain the reader causes us to turn away from our characters and flog the language. What I learned from teaching a sex-writing class 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Longing to do something — anything — that might dispel her quiet desperation, she throws her tank top at him and runs off into the dark. ‘Summerlong’: A story for adults about adults gone wild 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z As Ava’s desperation grows, her director uses windows and door frames to isolate her from her arguing parents and cliquish classmates. Review: In ‘Ava,’ a Tehran Teenager Fights Oppression 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Back then Megan exuded glamour and confidence, now she reeks of desperation. 'Mad Men' recap: Zou bisou boohoo 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Mileage hounds say Continental tends to raise the price of elite qualifying miles as the end of the year nears, just as desperation to maintain elite status sets in. Practical Traveler: Managing Your Frequent Flier Account 2011-12-15T15:21:01Z When squirrels target pumpkins, it’s “essentially a sign of desperation,” Steven Sullivan, the director of the Hefner Museum of Natural History at Ohio’s Miami University, told the Post. Squirrels are defacing, destroying jack o’lanterns, homeowners say 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But the biggest error lies in item No. 24, where you can truly sense the listologist’s desperation. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When a listicle takes a bad problem and makes it worse 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Leo, in a fit of desperation, approaches Dani with an appalling proposition that will continue the momentum of the young couple’s relationship and keep Sticks on track for his college tryout. ‘Somewhere in Queens’ Review: Rooting for the Underdog 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He described the selection process as “equal parts passionate conviction, intuition, shameless opportunism and sheer desperation.” Critic?s Notebook: Film Comment Selects at Lincoln Center 2012-02-16T23:30:09Z They say desperation is the mother of invention, right? This saffron-packed chickpea and almond pasta will transport you to Spain 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Horrified by the deceptions perpetrated by novelists, dramatists, historians and biographers, the reading public turns in desperation to poets. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z If Don's powers of seduction are still awe-inspiring to his dopey co-workers, we know there's an undercurrent of desperation to all the womanizing. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The life not lived' 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z "I wanted to kill myself out of desperation," said Carlos, an 18-year-old resident, showing knife cuts on his arm at the home on Thursday. Rape, hunger and nameless kids at squalid children's home in Mexico 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z There is a sense of sad desperation about Becker’s attempt to claim diplomatic immunity. Bizarre Becker: Sad and turbulent saga of a fallen tennis champion 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But you can find plenty of other contemporary examples, like Samuel D. Hunter and Lucy Thurber, who convey quiet desperation in the provinces with varied pitch and shadings. Review: ‘Card and Gift,’ Set in a Seldom-Patronized Shop 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The desperation to lose weight can cause otherwise sensible people to be reckless: four out of 10 survey respondents said they used slimming pills knowing there were health risks. ‘I thought it was a miracle. Then I started shaking’: the danger of buying diet pills online 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z I wanted to make this show more brutal," Suttie says, "to capture desperation and fear, as well as the happy stuff. Isy Suttie interview: 'I'd love to work with Victoria Wood' 2012-06-03T17:30:01Z These characters meet quiet desperation with quiet durability. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The writing is smart and the episodes well structured, but much of the credit goes to Mr. Kinnear, who maintains a veneer of charm without stinting on his character’s underlay of seedy desperation. Television Review: In ‘Rake,’ on Fox, Greg Kinnear Is a Smart Ne’er-Do-Well 2014-01-22T22:54:04Z Maybe I have to pry apart desperation and desire. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Murray radiates bonhomie tinged with desperation as Duveen proposes that the men tighten their collaboration, with the unstated aim of coercing Berenson into changing his attribution. | 'The Old Masters': Showdown at the Italian Villa, Easels Drawn 2011-01-28T03:01:21Z His eyes radiated kindness always, and confusion and desperation. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z If Mostly Mozart has not been radically transformed, it has certainly been enlivened, thanks to some entrepreneurial thinking, even if the changes were driven in part by a sense of desperation a decade ago. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z Fuming and fussing in his armchair throne, Mr. Dennehy’s Max asserts his will with bullying taunts that do not entirely mask the desperation underneath. Critic?s Notebook: Brian Dennehy at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2011-09-03T00:09:21Z Over the subsequent 90 minutes, Loveless let loose with charmingly bedraggled tales of desperation and self-reproach. Lydia Loveless, deconstructing country rock with a healthy dose of frustration But that shouldn’t be overstated — this wouldn’t be enough to keep the theater afloat alone, but it’s made a really meaningful impact on the desperation of the situation. How Matthew Warchus Generated ‘Heat’ in an Empty Theater 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z He wanted the album, which will be released June 30, "to feel the way that I know my city," a place he describes as "a weird mix of hope and desperation." In 'Wildheart,' Miguel explores L.A.'s 'weird mix of hope and desperation' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In this 1991 movie, Dennis’s desperation to get out of the Red Hook projects leads him to a series of bad decisions. From ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ to ‘Little Men’: A Borough’s Real Estate Crises, Onscreen 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z A tone of sunny desperation isn’t out of keeping with what seems to be this production’s escapist mission, which is to deliver nostalgia with an exclamation point. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z An image of the work published above the headline "A New Caravaggio" shows a semi-naked young man, his mouth open in desperation, one arm stretched out as he leans over amid flames. Vatican paper: new Caravaggio may have been found 2010-07-17T20:01:00Z Once Ray is backed into a corner, however, he reveals a streak of deceptiveness that Mr. Breaux makes equally believable — while still maintaining a sense of forlorn desperation that keeps his character sympathetic. Review: In ‘Red Speedo,’ a Swimmer Faces a Moral Quandary 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But he gives a powerful performance in all other respects, as he gradually shrugs off Brian’s antic charade and gives way to sheer desperation. ‘Joe Egg,’ ‘Next to Normal’ probe families on the edge 2013-02-14T22:47:16Z Ramsey may well be a brilliant storyteller, but the publishing world’s desperation to turn a moment of Internet fame into something people want to purchase and read is hit or miss. Charles Ramsey’s publishing future: The uncertain economics of viral-hero book deals 2013-12-23T21:22:00Z Miles are covered, cities explored, people collide to loving or lethal effect, but Smith creates an elegiac, meditative tone that serves as an apt counterpoint for the story’s through-line of desperation. Who Was Nick Before ‘Gatsby’? 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z In the late 1970s and early ’80s Joel Sternfeld crisscrossed the country, from Beverly Hills, Calif., to Aroostook County, Me., capturing Thoreau’s lives of quiet desperation whipsawed by the American dream in transition. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Winslow Homer, Mati Klarwein and Gustav Klimt 2013-01-17T22:01:35Z For Mr. Costello, it’s a slow waltz with an exposed electric guitar, moving from desperation to solace. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z “The desperation that was in her, like, ‘I have got to get out of this situation. Tina Turner Left Her Abusive Marriage, So They Could Too 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z In desperation, he once tried staying on the line with the spam, perhaps hoping to plead for his sanity with the promised “health insurance specialist.” Spam has taken over our phones. Will we ever want to answer them again? 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s kind of jarring to learn that “Losing My Edge,” LCD’s breakout single, in which Murphy elaborates on the title condition, was born out of genuine desperation rather than ironic drollery. ‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’ Review: New York’s Last Rock Renaissance 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z As she tries to explain how she felt, there is a mute desperation on her face . How I photographed my mother’s last days 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z A common thread in many of Mr. Hunter’s plays is the quiet, or not so quiet, desperation running through many Middle American lives. Samuel D. Hunter Climbs the Ladder With ‘The Whale’ 2012-10-21T03:00:19Z The declarative ring of that statement — along with its murky generality and its gnawing desperation — sums up the mood of the album, the most musically ambitious yet released by Mr. Sheff and his crew. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z “It was built out of desperation,” Mr. Luger said. In Denver, the Pandemic Deepens Artistic Collaboration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z She stayed in that voice throughout the 2019 shoot out of sheer desperation, she said. 24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance. Music Review: Ben Howard at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-04-03T21:27:26Z They must be in a state of desperation. A ‘Homeland’ Spy Opens Up Onstage in ‘Returning to Reims’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z You don’t get good vibes at a shelter, where an air of desperation prevails. Inside D.C.’s first cat cafe, where you can cuddle by the hour 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z She’s a saleswoman, after all, and the key to selling is keeping up a shiny veneer of confidence, even when there’s a silent screech of desperation threatening to leap into your throat. Theater Review: ‘Bethany,’ With America Ferrera, at City Center 2013-01-21T03:00:00Z Above all, Cattrall conveys the desperation of a woman who knows she is the product of an industry where you're only as good as your last movie. Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-13T06:00:05Z On Duffel Coat he reaches new depths of desperation, pleading: "I can't live without you." New band of the day: Oscar (No 1,498) 2013-04-23T16:13:05Z That care, which breathes through every paragraph, is freighted too with a kind of desperation. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z The scenes in which Crawford swoops into Page’s and Bancroft’s lives with her request are beautifully written: They recognize the absurdity of the situation but also treat Crawford’s desperation with sympathy. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 5: Taking the Stage 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z And if desperation has compelled this move, which seems a little rash, that does not lessen its potential benefits. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z But just as often, they’re observational character sketches that examine addiction, desperation and loneliness, a relative rarity in today’s id-obsessed hip-hop landscape. Your week in Seattle music: Katy Perry, Drake vs. Lil Wayne and more 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Necessity may be the mother of invention, but desperation is the father of denial. Hallelujah, 'St. Vincent' lets Bill Murray run amok 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The opening song, “Prime,” is a swampy digital soul number; he sings in a voice that connotes weakness, but not desperation. Review: The-Dream’s Soulful, Modern ‘Crown’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Despite occasionally acknowledging the chaos El Chapo’s drug syndicate and others have sown in Mexico and in the United States, Penn portrays Guzmán as a poor peasant driven by economic desperation into the drug trade. Guzmán interview draws fire for journalistic compromises 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z I like the desperation of no money and making something. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There’s perhaps more to chew on in “Mister Victor,” bolstered by an expert performance from Raimu that straddles genuine moral anxiety and self-interested desperation. ‘Lady Killer’ and ‘The Strange Mister Victor’ Review: A Golden Age 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Ultraviolence rages to fill the vacancies behind the icons, to imagine the sorrow and desperation and flat-out anger of the women still cast in men’s spotlights. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Despite its rabbi-on-Ritalin aesthetic, and its desperation to be liked at all costs, the show is so thoughtful and high-minded it comes with a mission statement. Review: A Jew and 16 ‘Nerf Nazis’ Meet Cute in ‘Just for Us’ 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Where those artists conveyed a message of anxiety—a call for change, disillusionment, or desperation—Salinas’s is one of joyful whimsy. Horacio Salinas’s Charming Carnival of Creatures 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Out of desperation, she puts her two sons in foster care, afraid that she cannot feed them — though some might say she chooses photography over motherhood. Review | How Dorothea Lange ended up capturing the Great Depression — and becoming an influential photographer 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z For his then-fading career, it was also not without a whiff of desperation. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It serves as a call of desperation as much as an announcement: Can you hear my whisper in these howling winds? The Unending Anxiety of an ICYMI World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z His middle-class men of quiet desperation are hemmed in by a bad economy and family responsibilities that prevent them from sustaining idealistic career goals. ‘The Fixer,’ by Joseph Finder 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Now 74, Crystal is not that guy — if he doesn’t enjoy the outsize dominance he once had, he doesn’t share Buddy’s desperation to reclaim it, either. Let Him Entertain You: Billy Crystal Returns to Broadway 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The draft jitters with desperation, as if Fitzgerald were trying to craft, sentence by sentence and aphorism by aphorism, a hit. Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unfinished Novel 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Then, at the moment of the most intense desperation, the Rock did show up, dressed to the nines. 'San Andreas' star Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson marries longtime fan 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Both played on the desperation and vanity of stars in a world where pecking order is paramount and the best table at the Ivy is everything. Laugh Lines: from Bob Martin to Extras 2010-04-22T16:29:00Z It was desperation, a finger-hold on a cliff before the fall. A Dose of Empathy From My Syrian Doctor 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z And Mitchell plays him perfectly, capturing the character’s bemusement and embarrassment, his desperation and, later, his surly, slurry dismissiveness. ‘Tyrel’ Review: Drowning in a Whirlpool of Drunken Dudes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z In desperation, the “Muscovite Venus” turned to her admirer, the mysterious Comte de Saint-Germain, who revealed to her a cabalistic secret that guarantees success at cards. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Maybe what it needs is a bit of desperation – or even tragedy. Have you been watching ? Entourage 2011-03-22T14:19:48Z Richard is introduced as a reasonably decent man who degrades his soul, and a goddess, out of desperation: he's long overdue to deliver his second novel to his publisher and stalled out by writer's block. "The Sandman" retrofits an old story into a cautionary fable about opportunistic "male feminists" 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z I don’t want to reveal too much, except to note Diop’s daring use of music and simple visual effects to orchestrate a complex mood of longing, desperation and anger. ‘Atlantics’ Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Injustice in Senegal 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Could there be a touch of desperation in the air as this already played-out genre tries to keep itself alive? Critic’s Notebook: More Lockers to Open in ‘Safecrackers’ and ‘Treasure King’ 2014-03-19T20:41:18Z Underneath the exasperation and desperation and beleagueredness that Mr. Lane plays so peerlessly is the squishy heart of a sensitive child. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z This is apt, as it takes us into the murky world of fortune-telling and stage magic, of mind-reading and manipulation and the desperation it feeds on. The Blue Book by AL Kennedy ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:06Z I think it was born out of desperation, as much as anything. Amy Sackville, accidental novelist 2010-12-07T13:49:00Z In desperation, I figured I would just show them what we were working on at the moment, which was a story about a guy who chased hurricanes. Perspective | With embarrassing stories like these, he belongs on Mount Blushmore 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But then he ran into some money problems, he said, and decided to unload it to Katz in an act of desperation. ‘I lied. I cheated,’ says woodworker who fooled antiques experts 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z When he resigns in protest, the sick and mortally wounded are unable to die, and Overall’s realm soon begins to collapse in chaos and desperation. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z And the scientists did the same: They withheld help for the newborns, typically leaving them in the pastures — till death, if necessary — to test whether mothers would respond to the young ones’ growing desperation. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z It is the detailed mise en scène, the tawdry desperation of backstage vaudeville that’s the real draw. Vintage crime reprints: mysterious tales that never die 2013-06-05T22:27:56Z The desperation and rage in those lines mark the chilling intersection where the mortal and the divine collide. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z For local and national organizations like The Bail Project and the Vera Institute, who are taking on the U.S.’s swelling jail population, this results in poor, often innocent people pleading guilty out of sheer desperation. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z In the case of the Yuens, it really was kind of an act of desperation. Where's Daniel Yuen? "The Lost Kids" podcast probes ties between "troubled teen" camp and '60s cult 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Are they good because an opportune moment of someone else's desperation — beautiful fugitive Grace — presented itself and can thus flatter their image of themselves as good and honest? "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z But then he ran into some money problems, he said, and decided to unload it to Mr. Katz in an act of desperation. ‘I Cheated,’ Says Woodworker Who Fooled the Antiques Experts 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z You can’t say they did a good thing by electing Mr. Trump, but you have at least to acknowledge their real trouble, even their desperation. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z They unveiled the desperation in songs like “Trouble” and “Never Going Back Again,” and they propelled him to howl, moan and shriek. Music Review: Lindsey Buckingham at Town Hall - Review 2011-09-29T00:01:58Z It depicts people in a state of constant fear and desperation whose occasional best intentions are swamped in a mudslide of ego and greed. What “Feud” Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Making music, he says, "would smack of some kind of middle-aged vanity and desperation, and I'm keen to avoid that scenario". From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world's love affair with pop 2012-11-14T18:23:09Z It is understandable, and a sign of our desperation, that we think we need big voices to save us. With Tamir Rice decision, Americans must get off the sidelines 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z "The Dark Knight Rises" feels weighty and substantive - and, thankfully, isn't in 3-D - but it takes on an even grittier look than its predecessors as Gotham City devolves into desperation and ruin. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z The songs spool and spiral, commenting on the slow-motion dread of a warming planet, the ache and anger of pandemic politics and the desperation of lockdown. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z "I entered that race in desperation as a medical doctor and a mother seeing things unraveling and the political system incapable of responding to it," Stein said. Doctor poised for Green Party nod for president 2012-07-14T07:55:08Z And his girlfriend is a heartbreaking blend of naivete, desperation and expertise. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Even amid our desperation to see The Force Awakens’ mysteries resolved, there are some secrets that should probably be left buried. From Rey's dark side to Snoke's identity – the questions Star Wars: The Last Jedi must answer 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter said the film presented a “pioneering look into the grim desperation of the contemporary Russian working class.” Vasily Pichul, Director of ‘Little Vera,’ Dies at 54 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Pinney displays a love of gizmos and gadgets that’s reminiscent of the films of Jacques Tati, but the film’s bilious moods and reckless desperation are entirely his own. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z In extolling the need for connection, their ritualized performance reveals one foolhardy attempt after another; in the end, all that’s left is desperation. Gibney Dance’s DoublePlus Series Opens 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Rather, it was born of Britain’s desperation and of America’s realization that its security would be imperiled by a British defeat or surrender. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z His fans, sometimes out of ignorance, but most often, I think, out of desperation, loved him. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In my desperation to complete the job, I found a jar of ghee in the refrigerator. Perspective | Why cooks (and bakers) should give ghee a try 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z But in the tormented final scene, when Onegin realizes, years too late, how foolish he was to deny his passion, Mr. Kwiecien dug deep, singing with burnished tone and desperation. Review: An Absent Baritone Looms Over the Met Opera’s ‘Onegin’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s awful to admit, but there’s something horribly comforting in seeing people leading lives of not-so-quiet desperation, and watching them battle demons, whether internal or, in the case of “Making A Murderer,” external. Obsessed with “Making a Murderer”: Why Netflix’s engrossing documentary on crime and corruption became a break-out hit 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z He spends the rest of the performance trying not to die of his wound, first in desperation and eventually with wry resignation. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Staged by Claus Guth at Staatsoper in Berlin 2012-07-08T19:24:24Z He understands it looks bad, this stealing of their child, but it was an act of spontaneous desperation. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z But there's also darkness and a kind of desperation. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z “She gives the tenderness, the desperation, the courage,” he added. ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Unites a Father and Daughter. Again. 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It is full of anxiety, paranoia, desperation, terrible isolation and doom. 'Curious Incident' director Marianne Elliott isn't afraid of big risks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z There’s this sense of hopelessness and desperation that all young people have there. Amir H. Fallah Feels the Pull of His Iranian Origins 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z In this episode, it’s about taking chances and jumping on an opportunity Alicent may never get again — desperation for a friend and ally. ‘House of the Dragon’ Stars on Lust, Forgiveness and Favorite Drinks 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z That desperation pervades every page of Simon Han’s debut novel, “Nights When Nothing Happened.” Review | Simon Han’s ‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ is a poignant study of the immigrant experience 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The consequent election sharply divides the apparently cosy community and reveals the snobbery, malice, darkness and desperation at the heart of the village. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z When we met to discuss the e-mail months later, he confessed that that desperation is one reason he doesn’t even answer his phone anymore. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z It took decades for online dating to shed its aura of desperation. Making friends as an adult is hard. Would you pay $720 for help? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z RELATED: Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" Slow roasted sweet potatoes are better than any beyond burger 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Not just in a fun, jokey way like those actors above, but as a vulnerable, washed-up comedian whose desperation is only matched by his ego. "You know nothing of my work": Five great self-aware cameos 2011-08-01T18:02:00Z Her desperation is offset by a willingness to go to scary lengths. Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z “Give that address to your driver, make it your destination/’Stead of just a post out of desperation,” he raps on the track “7am on Bridle Path.” Drake and Kanye West, Long Intertwined, Will Tangle on the Charts 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z But by the movie's end, you realize that his desperation veils a rush of longing. Pattinson Packs a Punch In Good Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The same desperation suffuses “Heat Lightning,” with droning guitars and muffled drums backing a desperate confession: “There’s nothing I can do, not much I can change/I give it up to you, I surrender.” Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z There is as much depth and honesty to Branko's desperation as there is in the unexpected connection that blooms between two weary middle-aged people. Minimalist drama "Here and There" right on target 2010-05-15T01:32:00Z We know what it is to be overcome by loneliness or desperation, to be suffused with heartache or lust. Review: ‘The Astronaut Love Show,’ Tales of Not So Magnificent Obsession 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z There was a little edge in her voice, a little more cheerful desperation, but I couldn’t turn down the job or say no to someone going through a hard time. Frisky moms, Porsche-demanding kids: A Santa-for-hire's Christmas in Los Angeles 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z That meant a lot of talking and reading in the dining area, a sudden interest in televised rugby matches when the Fijian national team was playing, and that ultimate sign of adult desperation: board games. Frugal Traveler Blog: Fiji for the Rest of Us 2012-05-01T20:26:09Z Instead of pushing the desperation of her character, she plays it flatly. ‘One Woman Show’ Review: Unlikable for Laughs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z I’ve heard of desperation negative campaigns, but this surely takes the cake. Cosby accuser sues Pa. prosecutor who declined to pursue charges 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Alternately, maybe it’s a sign that the dystopia of desperation and mob anarchy is not just the backdrop of sci-fi pulp set in the distant future — it’s already creeping into our daily lives. Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z Never has she denied her desperation – for money, fame, glamour, laughs – and rails against others' failure to admit the same. Comedy gold: Joan Rivers in An Audience with Joan Rivers 2012-08-09T11:23:23Z The deep content here, beneath the entitled narcissism, is a confused desperation that seems to drive Mr. Franco’s pursuit of visual art. Art Review: ‘James Franco: New Film Stills’ Arrives at Pace Gallery 2014-04-22T20:20:35Z At base there is something about the decision that has the whiff of desperation Don evinced during the first season when he tried to get Rachel Menken to run away with him. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: A Whole New Kind of Clich? 2010-10-18T05:53:00Z The desperation was especially acute after the confusion and anxiety of the last year. What Did That Oscars Show Say About Movies? Our Critics Puzzle It Out. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The large green eyes that read cute a decade ago now conveyed cornered desperation. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z In looking back on his earlier self, growing up in poverty in the Bronx, Hart captured the desperation, egotism, self-consciousness, illusionism and perverse certainty that made his escape possible. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z It’s a spot for intrigue, desperation, swinging tunes and bloodletting. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Moving walls in “Shoot the Moon” created three rooms, rotating into view to show us micro-episodes of unquiet desperation. Review | Dutch masters of dance: Rebellious perfection 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Pat Hobby Stories" — he so gets the sweaty desperation of what it is to work in Hollywood. Seth Greenland navigates writing maze of novels, radio, stage and TV 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z To wit, you at least got the impression Michael Scott had a soul, albeit one that was smothered under desperation and loneliness. The fall of Ricky Gervais: How did the once-brilliant star of “The Office” end up here? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Most inspring, however, is Crosby’s desperation to keep living, moving, and growing. "David Crosby: Remember My Name" review: The legendary rocker gets real and raw — Sundance 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z I made a vinegar pie, which goes back to that wonderful tradition of Appalachian women and women in general, always being able to MacGyver and figure things out to make what are called desperation pies. On a mission to make America bake again 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Pony World Theatre cut up Chekhov’s plays, rearranged the lines and made a new play set in a contemporary office where people wring their hands in quiet desperation for our amusement. Kirkland Uncorked, Bite of Seattle, Seafair Pow Wow Days 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z At the CIA we used to say innovation is born out of necessity, sometimes out of desperation. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z Deep and expressive, it moaned and demanded, the kind of desperation you’d hear from a man who is drowning. Concert review: Willis Earl Beal at the Hideout 2012-04-20T15:59:00Z In the pilot, his imprint can be seen clearly in a riot scene, where the violence speaks to the raw intensity and desperation of the characters. ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Lies pile on top of lies wedged between bunches of other lies in this engrossingly depraved account of romantic desperation. Stranger than fiction: the most shocking documentaries ever 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Throughout the novel, slang-filled repartee alternates with scenes of tenderness, desperation and shock. Review | A century after the end of World War I, a new look at lost masterpieces of the era 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z It lacks the exquisite quiet desperation of a bygone era. Mya Taylor is the face of this year’s most improbable Oscar campaign 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z With a whiff of desperation and cynicism added in. 'American Reunion': a no-surprises slice of the 'Pie' series 2012-04-05T00:34:04Z I can’t deny that I’ve watched the polecat sequence upwards of a dozen times, but Miller’s film truly comes alive in Furiosa’s howl of desperation, and in Max’s noble disappearance into the throng. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z While they both initially seek the benefits of marriage out of financial desperation, the couple’s dynamic changes when Luke is injured in combat, forcing Cassie into the role of unwilling caretaker. ‘Purple Hearts’ Review: A Marriage of Convenience 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z “You must have some connection to Germany,” she said, desperation creeping into her voice. Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z “It risks offending people by taking up such issues such as police brutality, the unemployment situation, the desperation caused by the Depression and the different ways that the Blacks and whites are treated by society.” It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z What made Andrew Fleming’s “The Craft” so spellbinding was the characters’ desperation to escape their problems. ‘The Craft: Legacy’ Review: More Dull Carbon Copy Than Cult Classic 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z In times of comfort, stories of leaving home are signs of independence and power; in seasons of want, stories of leaving home are signs of desperation. The blizzard of Oz 2010-05-21T20:29:00Z Her premature marriage to a Palestinian war hero, the result of her sexual curiosity, is believable in both its hope and desperation. A Beautiful, Urgent Novel of the Palestinian Struggle 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z “I could just feel his desperation, his intensity and his vulnerability,” Reeves said of those performances. ‘The Batman’ and Matt Reeves: Emerging From the Shadow of Other Caped Crusaders 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Usually, plagiarism is a sign of laziness or an act of desperation. Experience: I tracked down my impostor 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Her voice was the voice of the 1980s: ragged, with a raw touch of intensity, of desperation, but also, soaring and victorious. Irene Cara was the voice of ambition – both its power and limits 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z I made the decision that if I could prevent one person from feeling that self-hatred, loneliness, desperation and a thousand other emotions that I felt, I would. Football player’s coming-out story disproves every dumb theory about gay athletes 2014-02-01T13:00:00Z That book, about desperation during an economic depression, was published in 2015, but the others have been around for much longer. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Parker makes palpable the desperation of an artist who had lost his country, his theater and an audience in his native language. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht I lay back down and, before replacing the pillow over my face, said, “I draw a distinction between lying and desperation.” Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Charles recognized in it a type of desperation, albeit an extreme form, that he sees with regularity as one of the gatekeepers for those angling to become the next big thing in publishing. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z If they are childless and divorced, their stories can often be tinged with sadness or desperation. "And Just Like That": How "Sex and the City" sequel broadens the representation of 50+ women on TV 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The searing image seemed to capture the heartbreak, desperation and danger of immigrants fleeing their countries. A searing photo of deaths at the border forces media outlets to decide: Publish or not? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Her desperation is meant to echo Don’s vis-à-vis the fate of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, now facing extinction. | Mood of Desperation 2010-10-11T14:39:00Z From this perspective, the rise of black ops advertising may be less a sign of power than of desperation. Good at Skipping Ads? No, You’re Not 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z These biographies convey the sense of desperation that attended someone whose success depended so fundamentally on self-doubt. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z My own desperation dinners often revolve around a similar version of Lindsay's script, and they usually conclude with a baked pasta dish. Cacio e pepe pie is an insanely easy pasta dinner to make on nights when you don't feel like cooking 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Billy, in desperation, tries a brash speculative investment that pits him against Hap Briggs, and by the time it plays out, he has earned Hap’s respect. Review: ABC’s ‘Blood & Oil,’ Washing Away the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In desperation he turned to electroconvulsive shock treatment, which had helped him through some of the worst of his illness in his early 20s. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z I wanted the desperation in their fingers, the proof of their want digging into my stomach. From good girl to prostitute: My path from ultra-Orthodox Judaism to Craigslist sex ad 2014-02-03T01:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph's rock critic Neil McCormick called it "either an act of desperation or a stroke of genius." Engelbert Humperdinck to sing for UK at Eurovision 2012-03-02T13:11:09Z He enjoys his cruelty, gleefully brandishing thumbscrews and ordering henchmen around while selling lines such as, "The centuries that divide me shall be undone!" with dramatic desperation. City of Death: Doctor Who classic episode #10 2013-07-11T13:16:11Z The desperation ratcheted up when Adam came right out with the line, “Do you see yourself still falling in love with me?” A Rare Conversation About Class Brings ‘The Bachelorette’ Into the Real World 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z But Shostakovich cuts through the grotesquerie to get at Katerina’s desperation. Met’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ Stars Eva-Maria Westbroek 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z What was obvious took me so long to find, and that is she crossed many a moral boundary and I've crossed many a moral boundary, and it's always been out of desperation and fear. For Rene Russo, it took time to understand 'Nightcrawler' character 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z That’s the beautiful, terrible paradox of this movie: only as its heroes are driven to extremes of desperation, courage and resilience do they experience passions and pleasures that might have been part of ordinary life. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The gimmick with the lights is clearly an attempt to make this ritual humiliation more empowering for the sizzling ladies, but the whole arrangement is designed to highlight the women's desperation, and general up-for-it-ness. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z We can’t all be Steve Jobs, of course, but these days, landing a fulfilling middle-class job seems like a lottery win, and gun violence born of desperation an ever more prevalent blight. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z "Or desperation," cracked former host Meredith Vieira, who was making a surprise appearance. Couric, Palin to face off again on morning shows 2012-04-02T22:09:11Z “This grotesque chain of stupidity, evil, desperation is beginning to test my competence and above all my patience.” ‘Arabian Nights’ in Portugal Looks at a Gloomy Nation 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z In the movie, a scene in which she finds out she’s pregnant results in a screaming fight with an exasperated friend, whereas Strayed on the page responds to the news with tears of desperation. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z What this weird ensnarement depicts, to my mind, is the impulse to pry into desperation. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Ray and Carla’s mixture of lust, greed and desperation doesn’t make them all that unusual in this place, it turns out. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z The many images of bicycle riders touring the countryside — Mr. Koren is an avid cyclist — speak of an urge for Thoreauvian escape from the madness and desperation of metropolitan life. Art Review: Edward Koren at the Wallach and Luise Ross Galleries 2010-05-20T21:44:00Z But not nearly often enough, and in truth one of my best friends perishing before my eyes had instilled a deep aversion, an instinctive avoidance, a desperation to flee. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z Even if this is a false memory, it drives much of the desperation and acrimony of our current national politics. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z It took an alchemy of inspiration and desperation, but once they got settled in at home, artists and institutions treated 2020’s void of uncertainty as something more like a blank canvas. Perspective | Best classical music of 2020: The Met Opera’s nightly streams, ‘Blue,’ ‘Wagnerism’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Throughout the novel Henry fights what he calls “the pall,” a sense of desperation that seeps in at an afternoon’s margins. Review: In ‘The Adventurist,’ an Executive’s Search for Meaning and Small Raptures 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Here was a pop-punk band from California that seemed so wise, so literate, yet so skeptical of itself, and so sophisticated in its desperation. Review | Has Jawbreaker mastered the punk rock reunion show? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s the narrator’s mother, though, who embodies the real terror, melancholy and desperation of Aleppo. Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z “I feel like I’m always chasing music; I think about it almost all the time,” she said with a note of desperation. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Series director and writer Hwang Dong-hyu has said in a previous interview that he designed the tale as a critique of capitalism, demonstrated by the desperation massive indebtedness stokes in each character. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z You often sense her desperation to be normal. Coco Sumner: 'I'd die for music' 2010-10-07T22:00:00Z He removes the wig in what looks like a moment of desperation when Martha is about to leave him. 'The Americans' Recap: It Means Nothing to Me 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He pleads with the manager of the grocery store where he once worked to rehire him, but quickly turns angry and combative when rebuffed, revealing Oscar’s desperation under dire financial straits. Why Michael B. Jordan Is More Than a Movie Star 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The desperation allows “Horrible Bosses” to graze ever so lightly against some unpleasant social realities and to find a glimmer of class consciousness in an avalanche of crude gaggery. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z The consequences of inquisitiveness and desperation were on display throughout the episode. ‘The Knick’ Season 2, Episode 6: A Circus Sideshow 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z But this time, there’s no triumph, only desperation. Breaking Bad Watch: You Made Your Bed of Money, Now Lie on It 2013-08-19T02:07:22Z She applied out of desperation, having lost her job. Hungry for more "Great British Baking Show”? Sample these tasty reads 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z In her strongest piece, “Hunger,” Kendall writes, “Hunger, real hunger, provokes desperation and leads to choices that might otherwise be unfathomable.” Review | ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a convincing — and urgent — case about how race and class divide women 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “Union” feels like a play — specifically that beginning part of the play, when you quietly panic and begin an awkward prayer of desperation. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The 2016 half-hour anticipates and even exceeds that cult hit, sharing a fascination with deranged fantasy lives, pranks gone wrong and the fine line between desperation and bluster. Rediscovering an Ambitious Sketch Comedy That Never Caught On 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z “And you never know, someday, somebody just might — ” she says, her face contorted in a mix of frenzied desperation, yet her voice optimistic, as she mimes putting a gun to her head. 'Veep' Recap: The Former Veep Has Veep Problems 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z That story of youthful desperation, set in a Manhattan apartment in the 1980s, centered on two drug-numbed, damaged, codependent rich kids trembling cluelessly on the edge of adulthood. Review: ‘The Spoils’ Stars Jesse Eisenberg as Narcissist 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “Evolution of a Criminal” boldly looks at what financial desperation can motivate people to do. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Aggressive as Tuesday night’s attack was, it had more than a whiff of desperation about it. Perspective | Trump’s vicious attack on the media shows one thing clearly: He’s running scared 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Outwardly, these two are leading lives of quiet desperation, though because this is an Aki Kaurismaki movie, their despair comes with great comic timing. ‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Love (and Laughs) Among the Ruins 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z She hurled raspy imprecations in “Hurt Yourself” and let her voice break with tearful desperation and then find its own resolve in the hymnlike “Sandcastles.” What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z He sings about varieties of desperation and loneliness, about withdrawals and breakups, about longing and resignation. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z A lousy flick like Meet the Fockers is desperate for you to laugh, not unlike the guy at the party who is desperate for you to like him, and this obvious desperation kills the comedy. Second (and third) time’s a charm 2012-12-11T16:04:00Z Two new stage productions opening in Seattle this weekend plumb the desperation of housewives in extremis. Desperate housewives of Moscow and America on Seattle stages 2013-02-07T23:23:09Z “I could feel their sorrow and their desperation.” Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller. 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Pasquale, who broke hearts on- and offstage as the love-machine photographer in Jason Robert Brown’s “The Bridges of Madison County,” sings handsomely and works doggedly to convey his character’s desperation. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z We had to manage it carefully so that it wouldn’t become desperation. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z I enter, struck by other classic abuse signals: isolation, economic desperation. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In a moment of desperation, I shared my undocumented status with my then-boyfriend. Telling the Truth Wasn’t an Option 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Ortese’s portrait of the Italian city just after World War II is of a place of poverty and desperation. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Some are also riding on BMX bicycles, anachronisms that give the movie a whiff of contemporary desperation that signals an endeavor reaching for honest nostalgia and trapped by bloodless marketing. ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Review: A Truck Full of Sugar Can’t Make This Uplift Go Down 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Hoping for a haven, the boat lingered for a while off the Florida coast, while news stories chronicled the passengers’ increasing desperation. Review: In ‘Witness,’ Seeking a Haven for Jewish Refugees 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr Hovey's longing, misread glances towards the musical accompanist, his inability to hold the signage the right way around, the air of desperation – all are played to ingenious and often comic effect. The Devil and Mister Punch ? review 2012-02-10T18:16:09Z "For the newly arrived, there is a mix of a sense of bewilderment, desperation, exhaustion, anger, and fear of an uncertain future," Sinnott told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Iraq, Syria refugees from Islamic State get winter aid kits: agency 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The film begins as she awakens from an unsuccessful act of desperation, and unfolds mostly over the course of a single day, exploring Hester’s unraveling through flashbacks. Rachel Weisz in Terence Davies?s Film ?The Deep Blue Sea? 2012-03-10T22:51:09Z I discovered it, as I do most things, out of desperation and a limited cupboard. These two-ingredient brownies are one baking hack that doesn't sacrifice on flavor 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z I hope that’s conveyed, there’s a kind of a desperation that kind of heat creates, which is really good. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In its desperation for meaning, the scene does become senseless. The Many Violations of the Violent Birth Scene 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z For the next five nights, her mother sits in a chair and, with a Scheherazade-like desperation, tells Lucy stories about people from Amgash, Ill., where she raised her family in poverty. Elizabeth Strout’s ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ review 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Was it negative energy I clung to with increasing desperation? The Age of Purification 2011-05-20T22:30:36Z If anything, the play's desperation quotient - a prime ingredient of any farce worth its belly laughs - has only increased in the show's first Broadway revival, which opened Sunday at the Music Box Theatre. 'Tenor's' foolishness undiminished in NY revival 2010-04-05T01:16:00Z He conveys desperation and torment, but also grounded optimism and willing sacrifice. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z Her desperation prompts her to seek out treatments to save her child’s life. Ricki Lake on “Weed the People”: “It’s not about getting high, it’s about children dyin... 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z For now, it’s all talk, the endless stream of speculation and desperation that drives cable news 24-7. Joe Biden still wants to be president. Can his family endure one last campaign? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But Mr. Defa and his cinematographer, Mike Gioulakis, are united in their disdain for information over mood: as the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation. Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa 2012-02-03T01:37:26Z Here, however, Barnes and Clark shaded their strutting with such earnest desperation that the scene became a metaphor for the vulnerability and social awkwardness in all of us. Review | Cheap wine and cheese puffs are only the beginning of this ‘Happy Hour’ 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z “We love exploring the desperation of what it takes to be famous, because on the one hand we want it, but we’re as interested in how funny the process of getting famous is,” Marotta said. ‘Celebrity Book Club’ Goes Live 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Helpless to intervene in what she senses is an exploitative relationship, she sees in that young woman the same mingled pride and desperation that briefly drew her into a murderous cult decades ago. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Driven by a distinct internal alchemy — brilliance, talent, ego, ethics, desire, expectations, desperation. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z In an upmarket bar near Oxford Circus in London, I am watching two men hit on women with all the desperation of a doomed cavalry charge. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Finally, with some desperation I blurted out: “How much Kipling have you actually read?” In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The film opens with a quote about fate being the sum of determination and desperation. Kim Basinger on her “11th Hour” role: “I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But this is where desperation takes us — the sick, the chronic, the dying, the grieving. The Dress Promised Me Something the Doctors Couldn’t 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Madonna is subjected to all the same criticisms as a pop star under 30, “desperation” and a perpetually oscillating level of “relevance” chief among them. Madonna and Taylor Swift's Joint Performance Was the Best Sort of Collaboration 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z His performance is a tour de force of concentrated fury and desperation. Review: ‘Anesthesia’ Ponders the Meaningfulness of Life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It isn’t common practice for industry influencers to go after critics, but sometimes desperation wins out. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z A spokesman for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Friday that the Hollywood comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco that shows the autocrat’s fake assassination is indicative of American society’s “desperation.” North Korea: Rogen, Franco film shows ‘desperation’ of American society 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z And throwing stones suggests desperation, employed when one has little else for self-defense against hostility or indifference. Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Hopkins spent the first weeks of 1941 with Churchill, touring devastated London, traveling to other hard-hit towns, listening to him talk about his determination, but also his desperation. How Churchill Brought Britain Back From the Brink 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It was a desperation kind of a thing. Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z I hear the desperation in my daughter’s voice, the fears of my sisters with 20-something sons in Chicago and Milwaukee, the exasperation of my police officer brother, the anger in my son’s and grandson’s words. I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Gradually though, we see his weakness, his desperation and his status as a pawn in a much larger military and geopolitical game. Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ a Brutal Tale of Child Soldiers in Africa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As they run into trouble, and optimism turns first to anxiety and then to desperation, their fragile solidarity is tested, and so is each individual’s capacity for cowardice, bravery and compassion. Movie Review: ‘The Pirogue,’ Directed by Moussa Touré 2013-01-22T23:28:36Z It's most apparent in the jaunty dances that offer a direct opposition to the desperation felt. The Sun Also Rises 2010-08-15T20:31:00Z GD There’s a desperation to get parts, but nobody wants to have to do anything they don’t want to do. Geena Davis meets Paul Feig: ‘I had an audition cancelled when I wouldn’t have dinner with the producer’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Paul Brennan, “the Badger,” is the first and last subject seen, and the one whose desperation emerges most vividly as drama. Does Cinéma Vérité Exist? Watch These 2 Movies to Find Out 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z An announcement of an advertising campaign to drum up support for the format, currently ailing in the western market, smacked of desperation. Battle of the machines in Los Angeles 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z And that desperation, that feeling permeates the entire company. Trace Adkins "Back in Town" with renewed energy 2010-07-17T02:02:00Z Time — and desperation — heal some wounds, so my husband brokered talks to get my mom back to us. I grew callaloo to spite my mom: How cooking a Jamaican dish healed old wounds, plus how to make it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s open desperation in Crosby’s voice as he exhorts, “Speak out against the madness/You’ve got to speak your mind if you dare.” David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Finally, in desperation, I removed the stubborn stain using some dish soap and a toothbrush — insert anguished screams here. Love your down coat? Learn how to wash it. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Oh, and a painting donkey who sadly didn't get through, but straddled that fine line between desperation and innovation. TV highlights 27/05/2013 2013-05-27T05:59:01Z That’s why the Academy, feeling the sands shifting beneath its feet and wondering whether it is standing in an hourglass, is clinging to existing structures and styles with a backward-looking desperation. The Fossilized 2020 Oscar Nominations 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “In desperation, we appealed to fellow composers to take over the task; to them the Varèsian asymmetry was child’s play.” Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z In a fit of desperation, he contemplates suicide. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Sarah Anne Sillers reeks of booze and desperation as a scorned socialite in “Just One Step” and reserves enough of that unhinged envy to imagine a bitter Mrs. Claus in “Surabaya-Santa.” Review | Monumental Theatre’s ‘Songs for a New World’ vividly imagines a better tomorrow 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In desperation Will plays God and turns Charles into his next experiment, becoming both the son and the father to his own lab rats. Looking Apocalypse in the Eye 2011-08-04T14:59:55Z In comic desperation, Mr. Callas leaned over and shoved Mr. Carson. Charlie Callas, Zany Comedian, Dies at 86 2011-01-28T18:59:38Z I’m grossed out by my own desperation over this guy. A lesbian in love with a man 2012-08-29T00:00:00Z “It’s an interrogation method designed to create anxiety, stress and eventually desperation,” he told the Guardian. 'It breaks down innocent people': the interrogation method at center of Ava DuVernay lawsuit 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It hammers home the desperation of the survivors while bringing a parent’s worse nightmare to the fore – could you really kill your child, even if they were a brain-eating zombie? Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It had more to do with the degree of desperation this guy feels. James Marsden: 'The D Train' Plot Twist Isn't a 'Cheap Punch Line' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Motivated by a volatile mix of desperation and bravado, he involves Nick in a poorly planned, haphazardly executed bank robbery. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Out of desperation she seeks work from a former Southie, who escaped the ’hood to become a successful doctor. ‘Good People’ portrays the haves and have-nots 2013-03-16T16:53:55Z But desperation is the prevailing mood of Kent's production. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z But the desperation evoked here is of a different type, one relatable to everyone on the losing side of America's expanding wealth gap. "Army of the Dead" is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Lying in wait for Tapper at his apartment, Ms. McKinnon’s Conway writhed and moaned in her desperation to get back on TV. Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z It never slows down Short, however; he can turn on a dime and make Oliver’s desperation touching, then sail right back into high comic mode. Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Tina is, she added, "very desperate, and desperation, I think, is often really funny to watch." HBO's 'Togetherness' melds domestic mirth with 'mumblecore' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The romance may be risible, but the scenes of mass panic and political desperation are slickly disturbing. Movie Review: Young Koreans Try to Survive an Epidemic in ‘Flu’ 2013-09-06T00:51:41Z She didn’t flinch at my desperation, the way other doctors and counselors had. Shattered by childbirth 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z An hour and a half of opening yielded many stories of debt, illness and desperation. An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z With this new novel, El Akkad implicitly acknowledges that it’s not necessary to look so far into the future to see conflicts that destroy whole societies and send helpless refugees swarming in desperation. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z “Without losing the character’s desperation, Clayton now makes Hamlet more persuasively antic and wry — more real.” ‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z A tale of lust, violence and desperation in a hellhole of a Welsh town on a Saturday night, the play was striking largely because of the nastiness of its protagonist, Gary, a former school bully. Gary Owen: Bridgend and beyond 2010-04-07T20:45:00Z The story exhibits a wide range of emotions, from sheer excitement to bleak desperation. The 5 Best Books for Your Kids This Summer (According to Other Kids) 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “That feeling of desperation, when you just need somebody to pick you up, it was all of that,” she said. Pick me up off the floor, Norah Jones asks on her new album 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But, underneath, a cacophony of desires and desperation. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The greatness of the reformed Stooges' live performances notwithstanding, the Iggy Pop of 2012 – beloved, successful, rich – is clearly not capable of summoning up the cocktail of desperation and nihilism that fuelled Raw Power. Iggy and the Stooges: Ready to Die – review 2013-04-25T14:29:01Z That’s a tall order for a dance show, and the high ambition of it seems to stem from desperation. Review: ‘On the Nature of Things,’ Karole Armitage’s New Dance Work 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In parents’ desperation to relate to their teens, to be cool or to demonstrate energetic engagement, remarks and reactions may easily come out forced and unnatural. 7 mistakes parents make with teens 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z In desperation I copied and pasted it into Google and was amazed to find the answer on the fourth results page. Pottermore: my quest to find the magical quill 2011-08-02T16:07:02Z His own marriage, to a fellow parishioner, Karolyn, at age 23, was so troubled in its early years that he turned to God in desperation. This Life: Can Gary Chapman Save Your Marriage?--This Life 2011-11-19T14:00:08Z People are recognizing an opportunity to capitalize on the desperation of women. “The person I think I ought to be”: Meet the doctor fighting to save Mississippi’s last abortion clinic 2014-05-06T12:30:00Z Its crowded streets and makeshift dwellings hold endless desperation, but the movie is too busy, too angry and too absorbing — too exciting, you might say — to succumb to despair. ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z In a sign of real creative desperation, a “Groundhog Day” episode crops up. In the Second Season of ‘12 Monkeys,’ Time Traveling Grows More Complex 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z “He went through period of anger and desperation, but then would bounce back, and his humour was always there. That was his way of normalising it.” Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s a moment that rings with genuine desperation on an album that reeks of reassurances. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z Poverty was evident, but not an accompanying sense of desperation. On Mexico’s coast, skip the resort and rent a house for an immersive vacation experience 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z These films, Mr. Schilling wrote, “expressed the loneliness, desperation and feral toughness of many men of his generation against a backdrop of general lawlessness.” Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z In “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” it’s deployed as a flat, mirthless inside joke — another pat reference, unfunny and predictable, charged with a yawning desperation to please. ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Review: This Ain’t No Game 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Rozzo enjoys their enthusiastic feedback, although he also suggested that some of the energy New Yorkers are devoting to their kitchen projects is, like his overnight fish store itself, born of desperation. A Quarantine Surprise: Americans Are Cooking More Seafood 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The movie is an unrelievedly depressing illustration of Henry David Thoreau’s observation that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z As they gasp out “I love you” in the throes of passion, they are words less of endearment than of visceral desperation. Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One Man’s Ceiling, and His Frustrations 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The movie lives inside Oliver's roiling soul while finding the human comedy in his desperation. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z The nakedness of her desperation made me squirm—I wanted her to maintain some dignity. Did my best friend really know me? 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Their desperation and cynicism seemed capable of turning these beliefs into self-fulfilling prophecies. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But desperation is eclipsing the desire to uphold legacies. Their ancestors came to America. After Dobbs, they want out. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z That angle just isn’t as enticing as the theatrical shenanigans and poverty-level desperation that gives “Will” a bawdy and often joyfully punkish sense of community. Perspective | Summer TV 2017: ‘Snowfall,’ ‘Prime Suspect’ are a good place to start 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Alcohol and desperation were common denominators among these women. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Denis keenly observes how the power shifts between them, and rarely without a struggle; their dialogue scenes have a cockeyed unpredictability, particularly since one or both is always in a state of desperation. ‘Stars at Noon,’ ‘Vortex’ and More of This Year’s Streaming Gems 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Regina King, also a co-star of “American Crime,” is devastating as Brenton’s mother, Latrice, who spirals into loss, desperation and rage at the system’s indifference. Review: ‘Seven Seconds,’ a Grim Account of Whose Lives Matter 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z This, in a nutshell, is South Carolina a week before the highly contested Republican primary: a cloudy tincture of desperation, paranoia and umbrage, with plausible deniability for everyone. ‘You didn’t hear this from me, but . . . ’: Why South Carolina primary politics are so dirty. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The Claire who fought wolves and redcoats for this man and gambled everything to return now found it "hard" to deal with a hostile sister-in-law and clearly regretted second marriage of desperation? ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 8: The Secret Revealed 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Most movies about the gambling life inhale the fumes of desperation that accumulate around damaged lives devoted to risk. Movie Review: ‘Lay the Favorite,’ Directed by Stephen Frears 2012-12-07T00:55:30Z "We will see the eventual disappearance of many of our public services, increased inequality, rising crime, a greater sense of desperation and resentment and a feeling of helplessness." Newcastle council leader: arts cuts are inevitable result of coalition policy 2013-01-08T12:30:01Z It has a flavour – desperation – but not much else. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z There's no sense of a constant straining for laughs, making a nice change from the desperation of this season's gross-out comedies. Our Idiot Brother: Paul Rudd on a Couch-Crash Course 2011-08-24T00:20:00Z McGill's outwardly upbeat demeanor conceals a vast reservoir of exasperation and desperation — he operates in a closet-sized office, and business is not exactly booming. 'Better Call Saul' creators breaking a sweat about their 'Bad' fans 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s a sign of desperation that Taylor resorts to reading Zelda’s and Jozan’s astrological signs: “Both were born on Leo’s cusp . . . this meant passionate natures.” Review | Did an extramarital affair inspire ‘The Great Gatsby’? One book tries to make the case. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z And I put up with it then because of my own desperation to work. Sarah Paulson on relationships, her Emmy win and female beauty standards 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Prudent timing for Buddhist-convert Mum whose desperation to get a private audience with his Holiness turns her into a woman possessed. Andy Capper's Screen burn: My Family's Crazy Gap Year 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z But stunts like this are also transparent in their desperation. Kanye West and the smug cruelty of the anti-”cancel culture” movement 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Already 44, Margo knows the skids are greased with despair in the theater, and she pours all her private desperation into this wretched play. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In midlife, careering from one sexual tryst to another merely smacks of desperation. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z And, finally, the “you” is the shooter, Eli, who lost his mother as a child, a tragedy that media accounts seize upon in collective desperation to find an individualized explanation for recurrent mass murder. Review | In the story of a mass shooting, ‘Bloomland’ reveals the bloody tapestry of a beleaguered nation 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z A crime wave of unprecedented ferocity is sweeping the city, and in desperation the local constabulary goes mechanical, turning to what's called "the world's first robotic police force." Oddly, the robot is the least robotic thing about 'Chappie' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Frank reeks of desperation, and it is clear that we won’t be seeing him wriggle his way out of his downward spiral anytime soon. House of Cards Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: When Men Were Men 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z There's actually not even a whiff of desperation about Valentine's Day; the film skips along pleasantly, supremely confident in its own cuteness and utterly unapologetic about how shallow or contrived it might be. 2010-02-12T05:15:00Z “To balance joy and desperation as gracefully as Mr. Baker does — to interweave giddiness and heartbreak — is no easy feat,” A.O. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Westworld’ and ‘Into the Badlands’ 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z I feel like my overriding experience in my twenties, with this desperation for money and success, was true for a lot of people. “There are not a lot of happy people on Wall Street”: Sam Polk opens up about greed, wealth and toxic masculinity 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Dazed confusion distorts her fine features, and soon she’s reaching in desperation for the vodka bottle. Review: ‘Miss Julie’ Resets a Celebrated Drama in Putin’s Russia 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Knight pays careful attention to the details of desperation among prosperous characters living out lonely lives. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In the case of Carter, Gordon traces an inner life of intense self-scrutiny, marked at times by melancholy desperation, an almost hysterical search for love, and periodic callousness toward family and friends. The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He starts to believe that God is leading him to the people who drove his son to desperation, and, of course, he may be right. Amazon Unveils Its Latest Smiles and Thrills 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z I tried, with growing desperation, to both love my body and be myself. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His is one of those ‘lives of quiet desperation.’ An overnight sensation after 45 years in the biz: Denis Arndt, Mary-Louise Parker's co-star in 'Heisenberg' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In desperation, the genre morphed into a kind of transgression Top Trumps, with each film vying to place higher than the last in the ranks of rank. Movie 43: a gross-out workout 2013-01-18T15:00:00Z More than many songs in the show, “Tight Connection to My Heart” seems to reflect its character’s desperation. Plunder My Songbook, Bob Dylan Said. So He Did. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Here, though, the family’s toughness, thieving and secrets, its poverty and desperation, work like ballast on his sensibilities. ‘Shoplifters’ Review: A Family That Steals Together, Stays Together 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z You do get a sense of almost existential desperation. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Two women – an old lover and a beautiful young girl – yearn with quiet desperation for Kolia's love, and it is not finally forthcoming. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Every note sounded earnest and urgent, tinged with desperation, hopefulness and tragedy. Arcade Fire: Content kings or killed by content? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The stories focus on young people facing the world for the first time, whether in hope or desperation, only to find it full of claws. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z It is either the best Christmas present someone will ever receive or a gesture reeking of impulse, excess, desperation and, ultimately, waste, destined for next year’s yard sale. The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In this biting commentary on life in South Korea today, viewers are presented with a twisting, technicolor story of violence, betrayal and desperation. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “I see more desperation in movies, people doing whatever they have to do to make it,” Mr. Jackson said. 50 Cent, Renaissance Man 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It is not so much a satire of Hollywood as it is an examination of Hollywood desperation, and the manic, monstrous ways that people behave when they crave fame. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The new proposals reflect heightened desperation at an agency that has been on the decline for years. Postmaster General calls for 'radical changes' 2011-09-06T22:50:00Z This season brings a “more elevated level of desperation,” Mr. Williamson said, and he promised plenty of machete play for Limehouse, something loyal viewers will recall from the Season 3 finale. R.V.s and Stolen Kidneys: Life on the Fringes in ‘Justified’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But she also subtly reveals Manon’s desperation: a young woman whose father seems to have come on hard times is destined for a convent, yet quivering with desire. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z As the character unravels, so does Stevenson, her voice growing breathy with desperation. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In sometimes diaristic, sometimes imagistic songs about fatigue, desperation, illness, anxiety, adulation, longing and perseverance, he’s deliberately exposed and ever compassionate. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Directed with a bravado that verges on desperation by the redoubtable George C. Wolfe, this big, untidy historical comedy is pretty much the sum of what it cites. | 'A Free Man of Color': A Gaudy Swashbuckle Through History 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z Everyone seems to work everyone in this novel, which captures the desperation of the Maguires. This couple will stop at nothing to keep their house and marriage afloat 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z There’s a frantic energy in the A*Teens’ “Take a Chance on Me” that only emphasizes the song’s desperation. There's Now a Teenage Ace of Base Tribute Band 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z I would never find myself in the unthinkable position of choosing between emotional desperation and the abyss. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z In an interview, the director Edward Berger said that the sequence was pivotal in the film because it is the moment when the characters’ sense of anticipation “changes to complete fear and desperation.” Watch a Harrowing Battle Scene in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Out of desperation, I asked him to go back to work, to give me some space, and he told me that wasn’t part of the deal in marrying me. The day my husband strangled me 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The parents’ desperation became a national cause, and hundreds of women rallied in the capital of Abuja and the metropolis of Lagos, demanding that the government do more to bring back the girls. Rush Limbaugh ignores existence of Nigerians, pretends Michelle Obama holding a sign is only response to abducted girls 2014-05-09T20:57:00Z Few of us have been in such high-stakes situations, but Elizabeth’s desperation to keep papering over one failure after another, and the escalation of that, felt palpable. Amanda Seyfried on Her Emmy Nod and Making a Fraud Feel Sympathetic 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Dylan pines for Kate with awkward desperation — and a disturbing sense of entitlement — and seeks Fisher's help in winning her affection. 'Affluenza' tries for 'Great Gatsby,' comes up shortchanged 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Does this memoir grab illustrate the power of Swift — or of BookTok — or the desperation of the publishing industry? The Mystery of the Taylor Swift memoir: Who profits, who leaked it and who is it even by? 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The fact that he is alone and facing this reality of desolation and desperation is what I was going for. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z Making it in Hollywood is so difficult that there is a tendency among struggling actors and their representatives to chase whatever is working; insecurity and desperation combine to create the ultimate herd mentality. Side Road to Success Wins Matthew McConaughey Admiration 2014-02-28T22:56:24Z Yet you can spot, in the superb, subtle performances from Gong and Jung, the pain and desperation under the surface. ‘Aloners’ Review: Plugged In but Shut Off 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z But the recipe is less a product of desperation, Mr. Costello told the students, than innovation. Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z That detachment, its cause and consequence, forms the shrouded heart of “Please Be Normal,” a tiny, piercing study of dawning desperation that’s all the more remarkable for being virtually silent. Review: ‘Please Be Normal,’ a Couple’s Dawning Desperation 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Songs like “Just Like a Dream” and “Silverline” reach for a theatrical ethereality, with swelling melodies that merge hope and desperation. New Music: ‘Corazón,’ Santana’s New Mix of Latin Pop and Rock 2014-05-05T21:07:04Z But the tumult and desperation ignite the music on “Revolution Radio.” Review: ‘Revolution Radio’ Finds Green Day Still Unsatisfied 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Working in old age can be engaging and rewarding, when it's by choice rather than desperation or coercion. Food stamp work rules harm older, poor Americans 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z After a few minutes the Roots’ guitarist Kirk Douglas stepped to the fore, saving Mr. Legend, and the song, with plaintive, piercing phrases that connoted desperation and agony. Music Review: Putting Ballads Aside for Soul That?s More Soothing Than Sweaty 2010-09-24T22:07:00Z The episodes are edited to highlight their paper-thin bravado, but even so, the camera can’t disguise an unsettling desperation, a visible yearning to make all those sordid couplings with strangers somehow pay off. Television Review: Gross? Maybe. But It Got Me on TV, Right? 2011-04-06T18:11:34Z And, yes, the play offers a grim picture of how lives buffeted by economic change can slide into desperation. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z We first discovered Mexico’s love motels on a road trip in 2008, when, unable to find a place to stay within our budget, we gave one a try in desperation. In Ensenada, Cheap Mexican Charms Await 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It's also a fresh wrinkle in the independent film world, where more is being made than seen, and the social-networking universe is being explored, with a certain desperation, as a way of reaching audiences. Game brings film festival to your home 2010-11-19T03:46:00Z Amid that suffering and desperation, however, comes a dramatic story of planning, escape, care and — at least for now — a semblance of calm during the storm that is most of Ukraine right now. Humanitarian aid expert reveals dramatic rescue of children from Ukraine to safety 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The race scene itself is a terrific Two Lane Blacktop nail-biter, a bravura black comic nightmare of horses and cars and high-speed desperation and cruelty. Cannes 2013: The Selfish Giant – review 2013-05-17T08:30:01Z They guide him through the story of the opera, a plot in which he participates first with reluctance, then with increasing enthusiasm and, finally, with desperation. Review: ‘Carmen,’ Boldly Rewritten as Therapy for a Modern Man 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z It was a sign of Hardy's desperation that he turned to the psychic for help in a murder investigation which seemed to be run more as an existential challenge than a process of evidence gathering. Rewind TV: Broadchurch; The Politician's Husband; Super Sunday; The Wright Way – review 2013-04-27T22:45:01Z The kiss transformed into something full of desperation and longing. Ben Daniels: the best performance I've ever seen 2011-07-09T23:05:55Z This couple, from New York by way of San Diego, were quickly celebrated for their engrossing songs, a combination of 1950s and ’60s girl-group sweet desperation, with a mild disaffected streak running underneath. Pop Critics? Choices for Summer Concerts 2010-07-01T22:43:00Z Even the kid who dumped Martine looks baffled by her desperation. 'Yellow Handkerchief' Review: Kristen Stewart Road Trip 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z It’s a testament to the general desperation that when the local pastor suggested starting a theater to save Creede, the Junior Chamber of Commerce went along. Friday Night Footlights: How Theater Bonds a Colorado Town 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z As an ambitious allegory for the chaos and torment of addiction, “Hellraiser” works mainly because of A’zion, who gives her scattered character a deeply human desperation. ‘Hellraiser’ Review: Hurt Me, Please 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Vocals that suggest the desperation of a POW who’s been kept awake against his will for 72 straight hours? Album review: El-P, 'Cancer 4 Cure' 2012-05-21T01:44:00Z The words are cruel, but his voice has the timbre of desperation. TV review: Ukraine's Forgotten Children 2012-06-18T21:30:01Z It’s a frog-in-boiling-water situation, and Simon keeps a steady hand on the burner dial, patiently moving through the stages — denial, anger, desperation — of realizing that you are a stranger in your own country. Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Ailes is a man with all the power of a media mogul and all the sweaty desperation of an outcast middle schooler who wants to watch a beautiful woman twirl for him. The cathartic laughs of "Bombshell": Why dark comedy speaks to us in the #MeToo era 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The movie's strength isn't in characters leaping off the screen, it's in Shrek's anguished, George Bailey-like desperation to get back to a world where his children exist. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z Lloyd gives Bernard a pitiable desperation as he comes to find his accustomed life more and more empty. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Yet there is a sense of desperation about what Mr. Steel is now proposing. Critic?s Notebook: For an Opera Company, a Troubled Vision Quest 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z Silenced, Ms. Fleming radiated vague discomfort rather than desperation or pain. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z The man whose Election Night tour de force of sputtering desperation and disbelief achieved the impossible feat of making Fox News the most satisfying network on the air for an hour or two. Karl Rove is now going after Ashley Judd 2013-02-08T16:40:00Z There's a note of desperation from Elizabeth Fraser, meanwhile scrabbling around for value in the Cocteau Twins' powerfully stirring In the Gold Rush Dust. Readers recommend: songs about gold – results 2012-07-26T15:03:00Z Alison’s desperation to see it before Cherry sets the piece of paper on fire tells us a lot about Alison’s state of mind; so does the way that Alison returns to chopping tomatoes. 'The Affair' Recap: Alison Hits Brooklyn, 'Girls' Style 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Eventually, in desperation, I ask Guy-Man if he agrees with Thomas last answer. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z As Sathian mines that vein of desperation, the term “gold digger” keeps turning, catching the light in strikingly different ways. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The landscape is bleak, dotted with desperation and longing. New CDs: Tom Waits' 'Bad As Me' 2011-10-25T04:07:04Z Samantha Goldberg, a celebrity wedding planner and TV personality in New York City, said she has also experienced extreme cases of wedding desperation, especially for specific dates. Getting Hitched? Good Luck Finding Food, Photographers and Even Venues 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z They note the growing signs of estrangement as strings swell over an implacable beat and the desperation grows unbearable. Phil Spector: Listening to 15 Songs From a Violent Legacy 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z And then, far through the process, when we were getting right up to the moment of desperation, all of a sudden, Avengers pulled their schedule together and all of a sudden he was free. Bourne Director Tony Gilroy on Why Legacy Is the Ultimate Conspiracy Movie 2012-08-08T12:00:51Z Suddenly, the dancers twist, wrench, lunge and leap with a kind of fight-or-flight desperation. Review: A Dance About the Dawn, but Not the Quiet Dawn 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z I smiled at this private joke about writer desperation and incompetence. Gene Weingarten’s most pathetic career moment? This column idea. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z “Yet he approaches the grimness and desperation of his characters’ lives with lightness and humor, in an idiomatic Greek seamlessly translated by Karen Emmerich. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z "Girl5eva" could have been a simple parody of '90s pop bands, emphasizing a desperation to reclaim a youth long gone and playing up its protagonists' inability to accept what is instead of what was. "Girls5eva" is a feel-good story about what happens when one-hit wonders get a second chance 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Though Mud’s desperation eventually begins to show, his wit never deserts him. Movie Review: ‘Mud’ Stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon 2013-04-25T22:00:14Z Zion’s portrayal builds in emotional power as she reveals the desperation Ann feels for a marriage that grown stale and safe. Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Sarah opts for even more radical belief, clinging to the ideals of the cult she was born into with a devotion that begins to look like desperation. “It’s not a cult!”: Scientology looms large over “The Path,” a sexy new drama about faith and doubt 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Considering that this superstar once strode across the world’s biggest stages with the valiance of a freak, she now seems to be exuding the quiet desperation of a fraud. Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’: Where the freaks have no game 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Most of the Weeknd's tracks are set in the bedroom or the club, but they're shot through with a pervasive desperation, hollowness and doubt. Tom Ewing 2011-03-24T22:30:00Z It also in many ways presaged the celeb-reality complex, though, crucially, it caught Madonna at a career apex, not in desperation. After 25 Years, How Well Has Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Aged? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z That same dandified poverty clings to the faces and tattered garb of Savoyard peasants whose desperation he drew. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z "Mandy" set the tone for Cage transformations to come, the soulfulness of "Pig," the casual desperation of "Willy's Wonderland," fully harnessing Cage's depths not only for mania but for quiet suffering. The baptism of Nic Cage in the bloodbath of “Mandy” 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The narrative draws links between economic desperation and discord in the home, driving apart parents and children, men and women. Review | In Etaf Rum’s ‘A Woman Is No Man,’ the prison of domesticity is hard to escape 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In Sex Tape, Diaz fulfills her side of the bargain, miming radiance or desperation at the appropriate times, as if she were in a pretty good movie. REVIEW: Don't Dare Watch This Sex Tape 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Although striving is the last thing the album’s sound telegraphs—even when Malik sings about emotional and romantic desperation, he remains at a calm remove, seldom rising above a simmer across the whole record. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z She appears to be floundering in guilt and desperation: Trying to hold it all together as a single parent and sole provider for her obnoxious offspring. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “Clinical trials” she bitterly concludes, are “acts of desperation made barely palatable by a thin veneer of science performed on mice.” Review | ‘Live, friends. Just live,’ a writer urges us in a memoir published after her death 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Kinetic excitement returns with “Wade Suite,” which journeys from spiritual desperation to the sweet succor of salvation. Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z But they can’t transcend a movie that focuses on the parents – time that inevitably sympathizes with their desperation even as it’s supposedly mining their folly for entertainment. Why is the college admissions scandal movie so boring? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z A: No, I think there is a desperation. A Minute With: Stephen Merchant on dreaming and despairing in L.A 2013-09-25T11:33:15Z I think my cooking started through desperation really: I needed sweet things. How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z We are in a new era of desperation, when lots of people who were getting by these last several decades aren’t anymore. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z Serala descends deeper into addiction, mental instability and desperation, a spiral that Hastings, who’s dealt with similar issues among friends and whose father struggled with substance abuse, is all too familiar with. ‘Clearly Now, the Rain’: love and loss in post-grunge Seattle 2013-06-26T22:15:55Z America looks to the lovers in their desperation like the promised land. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-08-11T11:15:01Z Surely Bukuru's are, as the book becomes the saga of his internal reckoning and also those of Madia, beset by desperation and by fear. Okey Ndibe's 'Arrows of Rain' splits its powerful message 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Whether we view the desperation of moms differently than the desperation of dads. Perspective | Where is William H. Macy in the college admissions scandal? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z He does a nice job portraying a slow-witted man who thinks he can charm or fool Eric, until the seeping of hope from his face testifies to his desperation. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z His cry his perfect word pitched against The baffled contradictions of the heart Wrestling them embracing them Strangling them with a jealous conjugal desperation. Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Now, as we start to venture beyond our homes, our desperation to return to so-called normalcy is counterbalanced by our realization that many of us have forgotten how to be around strangers. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “I don’t have anyone to send,” I said with an edge of desperation. The Loneliness of the Locked-Down Single Mother 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But watching the parade of shiny, glittered-up, aggressively smiling kids at Ark's launch party video from last month, it's hard to see anything but desperation for attention, and a "Factory" willing to encourage it. What's behind the "worst music video ever"? 2011-03-14T15:15:00Z It was a casting decision born of desperation. The stars of Pen15 on playing their teenage selves: ‘It seems like torture’ 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z That obscures the larger point that the Zionist enterprise, overall, flourished during the British mandate and was propelled to statehood in 1948 by western guilt and Jewish desperation generated by the Nazi genocide. The Promise delivers but still divides 2011-02-14T11:27:00Z “Frailty and weakness, pain, repentance, passion, desperation, but faith, acceptance, hope,” said Rebecca Hickey, a soprano in the ensemble Stile Antico, summing up the work. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z So it’s not surprising that the themes of displacement, desperation and dreams of a better future frequently wash up on the shores of artists’ imaginations. In Stone and Fabric, Two Artists Explore the Quest to Find Home 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z This is a tale of desperation and decay; of a cruel, cruel world that creates an even crueller man. Why Joaquin Phoenix's Joker must be kept isolated from the rest of the Batman films 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In desperation, I set up our camping tent and began sleeping outside — finally, merciful relief! I’m sleeping in a tent! 2012-07-27T00:00:00Z She saw his hands reaching for her in desperation and denial, only to confirm that his wife was, in fact, absent from her body. I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Roberts described the mood of his premiere as dire, imbued by a sense of desperation. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z “Mommy, I’m afraid I’ve been talking to the hotline again,” she sings, her voice sounding childlike in its desperation but suddenly relieved by the release of this confession. Clairo Takes a Defiant Leap on ‘Sling’ 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Scattershot segments visit cheesy attractions that signal desperation on the part of field producers, and Mr. Bourdain’s narration turns both jokey and sentimental as he strains to compensate. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,’ the Final Season 2012-09-02T21:59:41Z In reality, they created the conditions for Singer’s scheme, from the lower admissions standards for athletes to the ever-increasing selectivity that ratchets up parents’ desperation. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z But they play out in abrupt, uncomfortable ways that reflect the confusion and desperation that coexist with Fleabag’s headstrong independence. Review: ‘Fleabag,’ Biting, Bitter and Pushing Boundaries 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But you really don't want to see Alan be consciously navel-gazing and wearing that desperation on his sleeve. Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z “Cutting against the desperation and violence that frame it, ‘Saul,’ in its dark, straight-faced way, is one of the funniest dramas on television,” Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Lodge 49’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The desperation and panic were ever-present sour tastes in the backs of our throats. The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z “That’s another factor in their desperation,” he said of the growers. Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The film’s emotional and physical components play into each other as her mood of stoic hopelessness shades into stifled desperation. Movie Review: Linda Cardellini in Liza Johnson?s Film ?Return? 2012-02-09T23:12:08Z Emails of increasing desperation followed, culminating in the news that I was in fact the … er ... winner. The Bad Sex award: What it's like to 'win' 2010-12-01T13:22:00Z In the wake of the storm, stories like these added to the community’s desperation. Months after Hurricane Florence, undocumented farmworkers still struggle to recover 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z “They portray the area as a place of desperation, as if nothing has changed since the riot. They don’t see it as a place of renaissance and potential.” Through hell and back: Inside the renaissance and postential of South Los Angeles 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z There isn’t a clear villain in this novel, unless you count desperation. The Amish survive the apocalypse in 'When the English Fall' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Faced with exclusion and brutality, they kept themselves alive through an unholy marriage of desperation and imagination, constructing an alternative reality that could teach the younger generation a thing or two about empowerment. Lovetown by Michal Witkowski | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z For lodging in Savannah, I turned in desperation to an old friend: Craigslist. A Taste of History in the South, and a Hint of Home in New York 2010-09-08T03:00:00Z Several long, fully-nude sex scenes in the ruins of an abandoned mansion only serve to highlight the desperation of personal life when the overriding reality is an unpredictable and near-random war. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-06T19:01:05Z It brings to mind the central conflict of Charlie Kaufman’s movie “Adaptation,” which portrays, among other things, a screenwriter’s desperation not to write. Harper Lee: What's wrong with a one-hit wonder? 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Simon Ungless, fashion director of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, identified “a sense of desperation” in the fashion world in finding the next great designer. Are Fashion Competitions the Best Way for Young Designers to Break In to the Business? 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z A lot of what passes for individualism as value preference is an individualism of desperation. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z His desperation is cringe-inducing, and his ability to screw things up badly is darkly funny. “Uncut Gems” is a merciless, nail-biting crime thriller that lets Adam Sandler shine 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z As two of the few college-age workers amid a group of older people, we had been introduced on his first day and promptly became friends out of desperation for conversation that didn’t involve quilting. Modern Love: A Love for the Ages, but Which One? 2011-05-12T21:31:23Z This urgency and desperation only benefit the “Accelerate” song, however; the dynamic song segues from sparse verses to barnstorming choruses with sunny-side-up guitars. R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z The merriment of the crowds can belie the desperation of the costumed performers who need to make rent. Cash-starved performers hit Vegas streets for tips 2011-06-27T11:13:14Z He allows his thoughts to drift from desperation to longing, but he knows it all amounts to this “dreadful, gorgeous life.” In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z “Whether the desperation lies in Spain,” she wrote, “or in a memory in our own hearts, it is the same.” ‘If I Was Martha, What Would I Do?’ For One, Stay Upright 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Farhadi’s choreography of the shift from rowdy celebration to frantic desperation is the most effective part of the movie, and he keeps the suspense going on several fronts. ‘Everybody Knows’ Review: Penélope Cruz’s Homecoming Turns Frantic 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z There's a halfhearted, last-second attempt to bring grace to Jack, but it's more of a Hail Mary-type pass, one born out of desperation. Review: Rebeck's 'Dead Accounts' lacks sharpness 2012-11-30T02:02:09Z They indulge in the petty comforts of gossip, their judgments disguised as concern, their desperation to reassure themselves of their luck — and virtue — disguised as pity. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z She savours Joan's desperation to get away, to avoid the truth about her feelings for Torquil, and to imprison herself in a boring but wealthy marriage. I Know Where I'm Going! changes direction on Mull 2011-08-24T15:25:19Z Her peculiar, unsettling worlds, rendered in prose trimmed of sentiment and ornament, overflow with desperation and tragedy. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z When it invokes Pompeii and Treblinka it does so in a vein of deliberate overstatement and desperation. Poetry and Privacy by John Redmond – review 2013-06-21T17:30:00Z There is a pivotal scene where Carey Mulligan wears what her character unforgettably describes as a “desperation dress”. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s intended to put heavy demands on his voice and inspire “a sense of desperation that helps me be on point more often.” Neil Patrick Harris Prepares for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2014-02-19T13:00:18Z That Britain has been torn up by successive Westminster governments that have pandered with increasing desperation to a middle England that seems determined to live in a low-tax, high-inequality, American-style future. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z Robin Miles, one of America’s most skilled audiobook narrators, moves adroitly from voice to voice, mood to mood, Ghanaian to American, as she delivers this suspenseful, atmospheric novel of desperation, corruption and murder. Review | For your playlist: The best new audiobooks of the month 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet he approaches the grimness and desperation of his characters’ lives with lightness and humor, in an idiomatic Greek seamlessly translated by Karen Emmerich. Greece’s Fear and Yearning Crystallized in Fiction 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Other inmates steal mushrooms from one another in desperation, growing thin on a diet of poisonous-smelling vegetable soup. The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In this the French and Americans are not so unalike, proving desperation and violence transcend borders and culture. "The Walking Dead" plops Daryl Dixon in a zombie-infested France. But he's no ugly American 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z He wasn’t sentimental and there is a ferocity to his work, even in the gentlest landscapes, that suggests a fight against loss or death, a desperation to hold on to particular images and sensations. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z In desperation, Mr. McCall, a sports car enthusiast, collaborated with a friend to start a magazine, Canadian Driver. Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Vocally she is in fine shape, and she did a superb job of conveying Kostelnicka’s tightly wound personality and the desperation that drove her over the edge. Music Review: ‘Jenufa’ by Opera Slavica With Susan Marie Pierson 2012-09-02T21:14:14Z When Marge homes in on Chuck, the evening’s first sparks are struck, and we are reminded that sexual desperation can be very, very funny. | 'Promises, Promises': Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth Revisit Bacharach 2010-04-26T02:02:00Z He digs deep, without any noticeable vanity, as someone plagued with embarrassing desperation, pathetically tugging on the jackets of those he wants to be around. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 9 – Uncut Gems 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The upgrade plays to Ms. Baranski’s range, as she conveys both Diane’s desperation and the will it takes to master and move past it. Review: On ‘The Good Fight,’ a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But she improved as the evening wore on, bringing pathos to the spinning song, desperation to the church scene and gleaming tone to the heavenly trio that ends the opera. Review: Alagna as a cartwheeling `Faust' at Met 2011-12-24T21:31:04Z Best is Sarah Beckham-Turner, wry even in desperation as Harper, her voice cool yet vibrating with vulnerability. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z As the documentarian reminds him of the case’s details and presents him with files, recollections yank Hays back and forth through the decades, sharpening his desperation to reconstruct the ragged patchwork of his life. "True Detective" is still a mess: Mahershala Ali can't save Nic Pizzolatto's story 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “Don’t Break My Heart” is soaringly sad, framing romantic desperation as an unescapable sonic maze. The Endless Pop Shimmers of the Weeknd 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Larson, played with kinetic desperation by Andrew Garfield, fixates on success. ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Review: A Bohemian’s Rhapsodies 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z His desperation to make her better was palpable in the early days. Motherlode: Becoming a Father 2011-06-17T21:03:14Z In this den of deceit and desperation, it’s never quite clear who is manipulating whom. ‘The Lesson’ Review: Carefully Taut 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Despite the plot’s careful, sometimes affecting attention to disease and desperation, the series is, visually, no grittier than “Felicity.” “Pose,” Reviewed: In Ryan Murphy’s Latest Musical Melodrama, Elektra Abundance Steals the Show 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “If you were wondering where the story is going,” he says, always pausing to pop his eyes in mock desperation, “so are we.” The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z To watch “Beach Club” is to sense a real desperation beneath the show’s forced, “Lean In”-style pablum. The Precarious Spectacle of the Girl Boss in “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z And though “Little Lies” hinted at the romantic deception that famously runs through Fleetwood Mac’s history, the tune’s sweet melody neutralized any sense of real desperation. Fleetwood Mac at the Forum: A band reunited, team spirit intact 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z This desperation is also what drives Su Lan, we see in the three linked monologues that circle back to tell her story after her death 17½ years later. Review | Meng Jin’s ‘Little Gods’ is an ambitious, formally complex debut 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z And the lushly drawn "Fading" mixes a moody ambience with a quiet sense of desperation. Billboard CD reviews: Christina Aguilera, Korn, Jewel 2010-07-02T21:49:00Z A stark “Working Class Hero” is arresting, while “Help!,” at a slow tempo, underscores the lyrics’ desperation. ‘Lennon: Through a Glass Onion’ Looks at the Former Beatle 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z I also lack the desire to see garden-variety desperation, warped standards of female beauty and depravity around every turn. One thing can get a buttoned-up millennial feminist to praise Las Vegas: Britney Spears 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “They’re giving his message of ‘we’re standing alone against the giant’ with a refreshing kind of bluntness — and a hint of defiant desperation.” In wartime battle over imagery, so far it hasn’t been close 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z In desperation, he and his father sold 33 dozen eggs and, with the proceeds, headed for the studios of Sun Records. Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Or perhaps it merely encapsulates the ballooning absurdity of our times, and our increasing desperation to laugh at anything. Lil Nas X Is the Sound of the Internet, Somehow 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The desperation of the character cuts into the easy laughs. The World’s End: Sly, Wry Sci-Fi 2013-08-23T09:45:49Z When her desperation becomes almost unbearable to watch, a redemptive moment of magical realism salvages the movie. At the Tribeca Film Festival, Movies for Every Taste 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Some of the contorted poses might suggest insects; the unmarked repetitions impart the sensation of being trapped in a loop, desperation increasing. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z A common thread is the plight of otherness, the desperation imposed by limited options. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Heidi comes out with one of the quotes of the season, sayings her wig is held up by “hairspray and desperation”. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode seven – Madonna magic 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z But when South in desperation covered the queen with his king, West won with his ace, led a low diamond to his partner’s jack and took the next trick in diamonds for down two. Bridge: Bridge - Italian Clubs Championships in Salsomaggiore 2012-10-28T21:35:21Z Guns and gun violence are merely a symptom of a larger problem: a pervasive sense of utter hopelessness, desperation, rage, and, yes, life-long pain caused by our circumstances. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z The desperation was apparent on their last promo photos: Both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page wore skinny ties, an overt concession to the new generation. Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Grohl sings with appropriate desperation, like a man who knows he’s overachieved and is thankful for the opportunity to make the most of it. Foo Fighters new 'Wasting Light': Trimming the fat, but not the cliches 2011-04-11T15:11:51Z It is from Katie herself, who suggests that making her desperation public isn’t, perhaps, such a bad thing. A Mother’s Pain, a Daughter’s Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z As the great and powerful Oz sputtered in desperation when his charade was exposed: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain — or perhaps behind the quilt. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z But what Ms. Scott and her team summon here is that strange alchemy of ego, hunger, desperation and mysticism that infuses every great Broadway performance. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z The lawyers claimed the “action by the prosecutor bespeaks the desperation that has engulfed their case” and indicated “more of a focus on obtaining a conviction at all costs than on seeking justice”. Weinstein due in court over indictment involving actor Annabella Sciorra 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z You have to admire the unflappable calm of a staff confronting the anger, fear and desperation of an unending stream of people in dire need of medical attention. Movie Review: ‘The Waiting Room,’ About Highland Hospital, by Peter Nicks 2012-09-25T23:06:19Z “I thought it was about loneliness and desperation and reaching out for companionship,” says Grammer. Kelsey Grammer: 'People are so swift to judge, to react, to punish' 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Now he’s relocated himself to the garden studio, where he struggles for relevance, trying not to smother romantic and professional opportunities with desperation. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort Of 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Apparently, Trust were "born out of desperation in the brutal Canadian winter of 2009" when the pair "began writing songs about nostalgia, lust, and erotomania". New band of the day: Trust (No 1,369) 2012-10-10T16:44:58Z You can accurately date an episode of Come Dine with Me by the shrill desperation in Dave Lamb's voice as he tries to keep audiences interested. Has MasterChef gone off the boil? 2013-04-03T11:31:15Z As Victoria takes a step away, visibly uncomfortable, Sharon, her desperation bubbling to the surface, moves with her: “You pay for the lies you tell,” she says to Victoria. How #MeToo Changes ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z I understood that these places were poverty-stricken and ripe with ambient desperation, but I did not suspect that they were any more dangerous than anywhere else in the city. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But by throwing in two distracting subsidiary Ohio characters, it conveys a similar desperation to be liked. Movie Review: ‘Liberal Arts,’ From Josh Radnor 2012-09-13T22:06:30Z I apologize to the Third Little Traveler for not being there for him, I have a tear in my eye; he looks frightened by my desperation. Motherlode: A Parent on the Couch 2011-03-09T19:59:01Z And you can't help but fall a bit in love with the sewers: at the cafe where they wait between challenges it is all camaraderie and cake rather than Apprentice-style sweat and desperation. The Great British Sewing Bee is a crafty move 2013-04-02T14:40:43Z Almost out of desperation, he turned to comedy, billed in the early 1950s as Don “Glass Head” Rickles. Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z She recalled that in desperation, a fellow student even considered bloodletting as a remedy. Critic’s Notebook: Golandsky Institute Helps Musicians Avoid Pain 2012-07-19T21:52:06Z Tomato gravy is, as Castle puts it, “a desperation gravy,” something to get on the table fast, without a lot of fuss. The Southern glory that is tomato gravy 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Go to any red-light district, and that’s what you see: a girl with desperation in her eyes, wanting to not be doing this, and another girl who is dead on the inside. The Battle of ‘Miss Saigon’: Yellowface, Art and Opportunity 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In both cases an undertone of desperation crept in, and their bubbles of confidence threatened to burst. Music Review: Judy Kuhn at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2012-03-07T23:04:06Z “You can see the fear, the desperation when they look at us,” said Sayah. Doctors on the Ebola frontline: 'You can see the fear when they look at us' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Javier, who begins the story in a state of desperation, trying to find work, very quickly adapts to the painter, her needs, and her rhythms. Han Ong on Straying into Topicality 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z I will admit that part of my desperation for you to accept Silicon Valley into your life is anecdotal. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Roger keeled over, Don fell headfirst into the pool, and Joan leaned in: By far, her desperation was the thing that felt most human and urgent this week. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: What About Bob? 2013-06-03T12:47:01Z He eventually did save the girl, but there was more desperation than heroism in his quest. The underappreciated excellence of LL Cool J 2011-03-22T13:23:00Z "I think he just took a chance on me," says Blunt, who doesn't remember entering the business "with huge hopes and desperation for it". Why Emily Blunt can't believe her luck 2012-06-16T21:31:04Z This reflected a measure of desperation and goes a way to explain why “Gentleman’s Guide” ended up with 10 lines of above-the-title producers in the Playbill. On Broadway Today, a Name Above the Title Isn’t That Hard to Get 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In her intelligence, vulnerability, volatility, desperation, narcissism and self-destructiveness, Su Lan — despite her voicelessness — is a compellingly complex protagonist, portrayed with exquisite irony. For a Successful Chinese Woman, Can Motherhood Be Her Undoing? 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But while they haven’t been making much in the way of beautiful music together, Streep and Jones are in lovely harmony, each bringing understated desperation and vulnerability to their roles. Hope Springs: Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are In Treatment 2012-08-07T17:07:24Z But the frustration, the desperation, the lust, the disappointment, the dismissal — they ooze off Walker like summer sweat. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z After all, it was a war zone mired in chaos, desperation and human misery. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z It was optimistic and cheerful, but at times with an edge of desperation, fear, even anger. She Who Would Not Be Stifled: RIP Jean Stapleton, All in the Family‘s Edith 2013-06-02T01:35:26Z Mr. Goldman’s book is still winceably clunky in its “Me Generation” confessional style, but Mr. Sondheim’s score has seldom seemed more psychologically penetrating or more astutely edged in the dissonance of desperation. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Several London theaters currently have Chekhov productions, including "Three Sisters," a heart-wrenching tale set in a drab provincial town depicting the sisters' longing and desperation following the death of their father. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z It's got to be a choice, not just desperation. Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to psycho 2012-06-28T19:00:03Z In the lulls between bouts of yammering, however, the director, Johannes Roberts, concentrates on building a solid atmosphere of desperation as a winch accident deposits the women unceremoniously on the ocean floor. Review: ‘47 Meters Down,’ With Great Whites Circling Above 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s more than just a portrait of terror, anger, desperation and resolve; it communicates those emotions directly, into the bloodstream and nervous system of the audience. ‘Winter on Fire’: The View From the Trenches of a Political Uprising 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In “Breaking Bad,” Walter White, in a memorable moment of desperation inside the crawl space in his home, bursts out sobbing, which turns into disturbing cackles echoing through the house. In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us) 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Tyler’s sentiments are perfectly calibrated to trace the desperation of these parents, pinging between annoyance and concern. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Greengrass noted the desperation of Muse, who captured the 17,375 deadweight-ton ship using only a skiff, ladder and a few guns, and then spent five days in a standoff with the U.S. 'Captain Phillips' torn from the headlines, but tells an old story 2013-10-10T12:04:31Z The freestyle is molasses-slow and hits hardest between the beats — a hymn of desperation and menace. The Playlist: Desiigner and Fergie Aren’t Done Just Yet 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Not the desperation and the danger that they experience. This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z And because the desperation was so loud that it eventually became the only thing visible on screen. Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z It reeks a little bit of desperation on everyone’s part, especially after the #TrueDetectiveSeasonTwo guessing game that imaginatively cast every big-name actor in Hollywood, what we got was bound to disappoint. Forget Colin Farrell – here's how True Detective can stay great 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z In desperation he tried to scrub away at his skin to make it whiter. ‘Farmed’ out to a white family, I became a skinhead: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on his first film 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Kamikaze This new special documents the World War II weaponry used in desperation against U.S. Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Hot in Cleveland' on TV Land 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z And his verse was tender, meeting Jean’s desperation with deep-sigh resignation. How Big Can a TikTok Duet Get? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Like that Jack Nicholson classic, it's a downbeat yet curiously fascinating portrait of people drifting through truck-stop lives of quiet desperation. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-06T19:01:05Z It’s a depressing film, deftly portraying the desperation of the race and the nonpartisan nature of corruption and incompetence. 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Once you’re attuned to the movie’s desperation to shock, you begin to have that jaded, ho-hum feeling. Movie Review: ‘Movie 43,’ Crude Vignettes With Big Stars and Directors 2013-01-26T00:08:39Z The shots of a desolate field of the lost put into relief the desperation of the comic characters we’ve been watching for a year and a half. Last Night's Last Man on Earth Was a Truly Great Sitcom Episode 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z For my mother, I’m sure there was a little more desperation. How I learned to travel: A nightmare drive down the Pacific Coast Highway conjures childhood memories 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z But I did feel guilty — for not recognizing the signs of his desperation, for my self-righteous expectation he would take care of me, for my blind trust. My husband, the criminal 2012-07-20T23:30:00Z Now, with the peril to nature seeming more acute than ever, the crystal-clear recorded version feels more like artfully focused desperation — and, in the climactic “Water/Sky Rant,” choking rage. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Efforts to debunk his lies were dismissed by Ford as nothing more than the jealous desperation of the liberal élites. What Toronto Knows about Trump after Living through Rob Ford 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z As a racketeer in Depression-era Dallas he swam in the same sea of violence and desperation as everyone else. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Her farcical wedding of outrage to gluttony was a political act whose helpless desperation mirrored mine. The Best Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Just as Purifoy’s assemblages bore witness to anger and anarchy, Bradford’s salvaged posters were stark indexes to poverty, shame, desperation and exploitation. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z No part of the picture measures up to the book's chilling prologue: a three-page portrait of a child's desperation. The Girl Who Played With Fire: Moony Over Noomi 2010-07-11T07:55:00Z He relishes in every ridiculous moment, radiating the self-obsessed desperation of a faded star who’s desperate to return to the limelight. Why “Paddington 2″ deserves Oscar nominations in at least five categories 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Weekes masterfully expands this simple haunted-house premise into a devastating examination of grief and desperation, but sacrifices no scares along the way, making “His House” a rare movie that prompts both tears and goose bumps. ‘Charm City Kings,’ ‘Babyteeth’ and Other Hidden Streaming Gems 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The conflicted, occasionally dispassionate way she describes her relationship to motherhood stands in opposition to Teen Shauna’s desperation. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Little One 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He was equal parts obliviousness and desperation, and if sympathy wasn’t called for, there was room for understanding. For ‘Crashing,’ the Third Season Was the Charm. Also the End. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Isherwood: “Hands on a Hardbody” was human-scaled and, despite measures of comedy, fundamentally serious in its consideration of how economic hardship had pushed its characters to the edge of desperation. ArtsBeat: Brantley, Isherwood Answer Readers’ Questions About the Theater Season 2013-05-02T17:29:09Z Without losing the character’s desperation, Clayton now makes Hamlet more persuasively antic and wry — more real. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Her desperation was so evident that he was willing to pretend to fill that role in order not to embarrass her. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 5: Making the Cut 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z But Sondre Lerche, solo with an acoustic guitar, distilled the humor and frustration of “I’m a Boy” in a series of brilliantly timed crescendos, and Matt Nathanson belted the desperation of “The Real Me.” Music Review | 'The Music of the Who': So Who?s Next? Patti Smith and Others 2010-03-03T23:45:00Z Sleeping in Eel Marsh House, Arthur is woken by that "familiar cry of desperation and anguish, a cry for help from a child". The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z Female boxers nowadays fight with a different sort of desperation: to be noticed. Up Close: Smile When You Call Her a Diva 2011-03-23T18:51:38Z Quietly charismatic, able to flicker from steeliness to desperation with an eye movement or a hand gesture, Ms. Hoss embodies Mr. Petzold’s fluctuating idea of postwar Germany itself: vain, guilty, vulnerable, confused. Review: ‘Phoenix’ Shows Rebirth and a Ruse in Postwar Germany 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z A message etched in electric pink cursive that hangs over her husband’s cash register actually blares, with near-comical desperation, “This is the sign you’re looking for.” A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z And when it’s time for Jacinta to leave, both women teeter from ambivalence to desperation. ‘Jacinta’ Review: A Neverending Cycle of Hurt 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “I shuddered to think,” Mrs. Spears wrote in her book, describing her worries about those influencing Britney at the time, “what depths of desperation we would have to plumb to regain charge of our child.” Is Britney Spears Ready to Stand on Her Own? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Something formed out of oats and soya and desperation is not a sausage. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The result isn’t so much a revision as a slightly personalized version, and that served the vision: In Signature’s intimate confines, you felt the hope and desperation of each and every dancer. Perspective | Out of dozens and dozens of plays and musicals, these deserved the hottest spotlight 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The two play strangers who, in their desperation to get where they want to go, charter a plane that crashes in remote mountains. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z And cutting against the desperation and violence that frame it, “Saul,” in its dark, straight-faced way, is one of the funniest dramas on television. ‘Better Call Saul’ Starts Its Fourth Season, Still Waiting for Saul 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Ash’s voice and perspective are the main driving forces of the book, and her narration — especially of action and anger — is riveting in its competence and bleak desperation. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z I look at the parched lives that so many people live, the desperation that underlies their every action, and I say, this has all been brought about by the electronic media. Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z Subject lines are fraught with desperation and resignation: “Sexless marriage driving me crazy!!!,” “I feel like I die more every day”: The “bed death” of sexless marriage is real, and it’s heartbreaking 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The sequence suggested a story in which Mr. Holmes played a high-strung, not always sympathetic everyman who descends from innocence into desperation, then returns to a tentative calm. Music Review: Clint Holmes Sings Simon and Porter at the Caf? Carlyle 2012-04-11T21:38:46Z Even as she sings about desperation and uncertainty, on “30” Adele’s voice is more supple and purposeful than ever, articulating every consonant and constantly ornamenting her melodies without distracting from them. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z After a swerve toward rowdier, pushier rock on the 2014 album she made with Ted Leo in a duo called the Both, she doubles down on both the quiet and the desperation on “Mental Illness.” Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Hip hop is built on storytelling, including grim tales of survival and of the structural violence that forces many people into vulnerable professions and illegal hustles out of desperation. No, Cardi B is not like Bill Cosby: Controversy over resurfaced video is fueled by bad faith outrage 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Friedkin says the appeal of the story lies in the desperation of its characters. 'Killer Joe' boasts starry cast, NC-17 rating 2012-07-27T19:39:12Z His wide brown eyes seemed to take in all direction without defense, as though he felt only a desperation to succeed. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z Kane’s novel is landfilled with such highbrow trivia as May’s life of quiet desperation plods on, page after page, the road trip you wish would just end. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z But the bullets and blood may also obscure some of Hwang's key questions about humanity and societies, such as: Which is more dangerous to our collective health, desperation or greed? The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Smear yourself in your own drool and roll in hundreds and thousands as the conveyor belt of desperation trundles through your living room to delight and enthral. BBC Proms 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z The band revved up rockabilly and Bo Diddley beats, and Mr. Auerbach’s voice was perched, not at all precariously, between desperation and defiance. Review: Dan Auerbach Leads the Arcs at Terminal 5 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z I signed up for a Vipassana course in a moment of quiet desperation. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The stately fiddle-accented dirge becomes a backdrop for stories of bravery, treachery, desperation, until all disappear beneath the black, icy ocean. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z The British series has taken Mr. Mankell’s irritable character and pushed him to new depths of dour angst and desperation. The Detective Kurt Wallander on DVD 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z "Land" is beautifully filmed and shot in Alberta, Canada, and Wright captures the isolation and desperation Edee experiences along with her growing sense of home and peace with noticeable aplomb. How "House of Cards" prepared Robin Wright to direct "Land," a moving tribute to nature & resilience 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z But it doesn’t have even a hint of the desperation, of the sense of loss, that dominates Solaris. Elena Ferrante: ‘Solaris is not Tarkovsky’s best film, but it made the greatest impression on me’ 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Either way, it reeks of desperation amid declining ratings and suggests a reason those ratings may be declining. The Morning After: How the Mighty Have Fallen 2012-02-09T15:44:21Z The Ukraine president’s words have projected a mixture of defiance and an escalating desperation, and he seems unafraid of alienating those whose help he might need. A modern Churchill? Zelenskyy praised as war communicator 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Lan Samantha Chang, director of the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, recounts how she and her sisters “were launched into our American lives on the rocket fuel of my parents’ hope and desperation.” New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z There are compelling social justice stories, yes; but also stories about love, desperation, friendship, heartbreak, and triumph. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z As the easy charm gradually flakes away and reveals his mounting desperation, so the superficial circle in which he moves recoils from him. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Reading the trial transcripts, there is a definite sense of desperation in their confessions, as though they are being given something in return: a pardon, perhaps, or leniency. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z As the date nears and a settlement agreement with his accusers teeters, his desperation escalates. ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ Review: Resurrecting a Megachurch 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z His pursuit of an American dream is driven by defiance rather than desperation. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z As Britt’s desperation increases, she even utters “the S word.” Spare Times: For Children, for March 30-April 5 2012-03-29T21:30:27Z His ambition, twinned with desperation, resonates with any teenager who wants to journey off to college or move states away for work, in a bid to escape youthful boundaries. Jay Gatsby: A Dreamer Doomed to Be Excluded. The Novelist Jesmyn Ward Explains. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In three verses King moves from sleeplessness and desperation — "I looked all around me, and my baby, she can't be found" — to suicide. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It seems that in my desperation to coax life back into my complexion, I'm resorting to actual health measures. Barefaced trick: lose the lipstick, grab the spotlight 2012-07-13T22:01:21Z Instead, the sweaty desperation of the effort exacerbated the problem and made it look intractable. Review: Taming ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Under a Tent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s a system that, whatever Pared’s intent, seems to prioritize desperation and urgency for both management and labor. Apps have turned restaurant work into a gig-economy hustle. Here’s how one cook chases a paycheck. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z In desperation, the state tried to close the gap by selling adult industry toys, seized from a business that owed back taxes to the state. “Just boxes and boxes of dildos” Seth Meyers roasts Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback after state sells adult toys to fix his tax screw-up 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z “This is the best thing that could have happened,” he says, though the look on his face is one of desperation rather than bliss. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “He doesn’t believe in the Lord of Light and he prayed out of desperation. I think Davos will do the same when he hears about Jon’s death.” Game of Thrones: every possible way Jon Snow could come back from the dead 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The way he tells it, his decision to relocate, cinematically, across the Irish Sea was born of practicality, if not desperation. Guardian first film award: The Guard 2012-02-09T20:00:08Z But then there are the others, the reality TV stars who sweat under the lights and are often at a loss for words but cobble together some semi-aggressive nonsense out of desperation. "Real Housewives of NYC" finale: Goodbye, wackadoos! 2010-06-04T13:30:00Z You may also be making a kind of desperation move. I quit my job to make music 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z Passages evoking stormy desperation, beatific serenity, boisterous high spirits and a flight from the furies were delivered with vivid articulation and poised phrasing. Review | A mother and son making beautiful music together 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Often, addiction goes along with overall futility, sadness, and desperation. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z "The Lady's not for turning", an allusion to Christopher Fry's creaky 1940s verse-drama, The Lady's Not For Burning, bears the marks of a script-writer's midnight desperation. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z Morello’s guitar solo brought home a scarifying “Ghost of Tom Joad” and Vedder’s harmony vocals accented the desperation just below the surface of a chilling “Atlantic City.” Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z Lady Bird’s desperation to get him out of Washington alive began almost as soon as Johnson won election in 1964 and continued until he famously declared he would not run for re-election four years later. Beneath Her Decorous Demeanor, ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ Was a Political Force 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z They detail longing, desperation, resentment, vulnerability, sorrow and strength, and they can be luminous and harrowing at the same time. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Take "Rainmaker," a song in which he explores our timeless susceptibility to conmen and snake-oil salesmen — people who prey on our sense of desperation and moral failings. With "Letter to You," Bruce Springsteen reminds us, brilliantly, that we're all on borrowed time 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It not only fixates on poverty, layoffs and hopelessness, but pulls you further into America’s vortex of desperation. | 'Bridesburg': ?Bridesburg? at Gene Frankel Theater - Review 2012-01-23T22:55:31Z She also burrows into a demimonde of poverty, desperation and crime that exists just beyond her waiting room and sometimes spills into it. Review: The Hard Road of Decency in ‘The Unknown Girl’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Compulsion and codependency, deception and desperation lace the narrative, but there are no heroes or villains and no melodrama. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z Although I had trouble at times following the hairpin turns of their fickle desires and motivations, Julian’s dependency and Paul’s desperation for affection remain constant. Debut Novels About Seamy Underbellies and Dark Turns 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The Cleveland show — which also featured Beyoncé’s husband, Jay Z, and Chance the Rapper — reeked of a kind of political desperation. Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z “Leah knew she was coming dangerously close to the age when eligible men might search her eyes for desperation, that unseemly my-clock-is-ticking vibe. ‘Freezing my eggs is my little secret,’ she says. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z There's nothing in the film — which lacks urgency — or her eyes or physical demeanor that suggests panic, fear, desperation. 'Gone': Amanda Seyfried doesn't pull off terrified mode 2012-02-24T22:12:04Z My chief memory is of the crowd singing, with some desperation, the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun." Readers share memories from 1968 Sky River Festival in Sultan 2011-08-10T17:48:01Z Some may be simply mesmerised by the shocking squalor and desperation which with these people live, perhaps having believed those Ken Loach movies to have been a dramatic exaggeration. Poverty porn? 2010-05-28T11:11:00Z Maybe I'm more attuned to the sadness now; maybe I'm better with the weaker Ben Richards, the desperation that makes him enter the competition. Rereading Stephen King: week 12 – The Running Man 2012-11-22T10:13:57Z But what gives "Prisoner of Second Avenue" new zing is its portrait of how swiftly one can tumble from comfort and confidence into a free-fall of enraged desperation. Review: 'Prisoner's' downsized predicament seems all too familiar 2011-05-07T03:30:06Z Some scenes, though, memorably convey the desperation of its down-and-out hedonists. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z A later digression into Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” comes off as pure desperation. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z Three linked films in the Greek pavilion tell a story of wealth and desperation, art and money, while a whole room is devoted to alternative forms of currency and exchange. Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart? 2013-06-02T18:30:01Z Hamlet’s voice reaches the edge of desperation then swoops into bitter comedy before veering toward tenderness and back to manic grief. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Failure will typically be traced to impatience or desperation. NBA 2K13 2012-10-09T21:52:22Z Yet in portraying endless desperation, Mr. Aukin’s revival never feels rushed or frantic. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Worried Friend: You’re right — aimless dating because of loneliness, guilt or desperation is not good for your friend or her children. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom’s aimless dating might not be good for the kids 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The book practically tears off its own binding in its desperation to contain every aside, joke, riff and detour. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z "American Idol" is a shadow of its former self, and with a few notable exceptions such as "MasterChef Junior," recent debuts reeked of desperation: "Dating Naked," "Naked and Afraid," "Sex Box." Fatal helicopter crash shows high cost of reality TV entertainment 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Thanks to Dan Jones's savvy sound design we can hear the distant bangs of desperation from the Kursk crew, without actually having to invest in sharing their deadly predicament. Immersive theatre: take us to the edge, but don't throw us in 2010-04-07T15:28:00Z This emotional desperation, kept tamped down beneath a pose of ferocious nonchalance, makes Evie “an eager mark” for some otherworldly girls she sees in the park one day. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z With its mix of down-home coziness and violent desperation, “Girl” brings to mind a fraught collaboration by Thornton Wilder and Eugene O’Neill, with a dash of William Saroyan’s whimsy. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z And behind the portrait of individual desperation lurks a wider point about a society, six months after Mrs Thatcher's elevation to power, that has nothing much to offer but a savourless materialism. Ecstasy - review 2011-03-16T00:17:46Z I mean, they had done so out of desperation, but not for flavor or any exquisite texture. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Ron Rash's stories, set in the Appalachian mountains, are portraits of rural desperation, of lives blighted by poverty, drugs and grief. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z He wrapped his story in the theme of desperation. 'Nightingale' tested David Oyelowo's commitment as an actor 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z I was shattered: he called me "Daddy" because he'd identified himself with my children, but was using the name for the first time – out of desperation. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z You can hear it all in his music of course – a need and a desperation and a desire for more. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z The dead lead lives of noisy desperation in “Beetlejuice,” the absolutely exhausting new musical that opened on Thursday at the Winter Garden Theater. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z My curves grabbed men’s attention, their interest fueled my confidence, and in the act, my desperation to please left my lovers more than satisfied. From good girl to prostitute: My path from ultra-Orthodox Judaism to Craigslist sex ad 2014-02-03T01:00:00Z The most bracing moments here reframe ’90s New York crime rap as an act of desperation and need, not of boasting and threat. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z This is a tale of captivity, with all its tedium and desperation. The way of the world 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The desperation that overtakes Rachel in the latter stages of the novel is part of the national baring of the teeth. Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell’ takes us into the heart of a tormented woman 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z She would look at you in desperation, like she was pleading with you for help. The worst part of being poor: watching your dog die when you can't afford to help 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Watching the scene a second time, though, their eagerness actually reads as desperation. 'Mad Men' recap: Goodbye to Shangri-La 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Or, even better, you’d anticipate your need for toilet paper and purchase it before the moment of desperation. My fake college syllabus 2013-01-26T00:30:00Z We learn that the He-Man cartoon was invented on the fly in a moment of blind desperation by a Mattel employee who could sense that a sales meeting was heading south. The Toys That Made Us: Netflix's show will make you rethink your childhood 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He said this trial was the result of “the dishonesty and desperation of two producers trying to raise money yet again,” this time by suing their former press agent. Trial for Broadway’s ‘Rebecca’ Scandal Begins 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The Andante meandered with a weird pallor, while the finale's eventual collapse was all the more horrid for the desperation of its earlier strivings. RLPO/Petrenko ? review 2011-03-08T18:29:52Z Underneath the thick layers of insecurity, however, Mr. Platt transmits the yearning heart and the desperation for affection — or even just attention — that ultimately gets Evan into deep trouble. Review: In ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ a Lonely Teenager, a Viral Lie and a Breakout Star 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z That might sound like the makings of a family comedy – instead, it's a quiet, melancholy film about loneliness, poverty and desperation, entirely carried by its star's performance. Michelle Williams: five best moments 2013-03-08T13:03:03Z In an industry that has become increasingly bleak, Chaney’s Dairy Barn is a success story born of desperation. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Obviously, I was a west London teenager, not a middle-aged Glaswegian divorcee, but angst doesn't confine itself to adolescence, and quiet desperation is quiet desperation, whatever one's background. Taking another look at James Kelman 2010-09-21T08:34:00Z Anton Chekhov famously labeled his major plays "comedies" — an odd designation, you might think, given how redolent they are with despair, desperation, unrequited love and emotional paralysis. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z In desperation I went to Clinton and asked if he would help Ben get through it. He was behaving differently. He had lost something. I was the only one who noticed. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Tina is, she added, "very desperate and desperation, I think, is often really funny to watch." Emmy chat: Let's talk 'Togetherness' with Amanda Peet on Thursday 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Her increasing desperation leads her down a path of extremism that she had previously deplored in others. Review | ‘American Horror Story’ tries to make the Trump era scarier than it actually is 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z And, yes, it’s mildly amusing to watch the cardinals’ farcical desperation as they attempt, with the assistance of the stage manager, to keep the pageant from falling into a confused shambles. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “I can’t believe that you don’t want to see me,” it repeats, on the way into a litany of disconnection and desperation. The Playlist: Radiohead Returns, and Justin Timberlake Trolls the World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The songs often ponder social issues and find the gravity in everyday desperation; they commiserate with dignity. Review: David Gilmour Lays Claim to Pink Floyd Memories 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Sensing her desperation, I wanted to throw her a lifeline, unlock her the way I inspired my students. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The first puzzle appeared on Dec. 21, 1913, born out of desperation when Arthur Wynne, the editor of The New York World, needed to fill space in a holiday fun supplement. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Soon, Natalie is stealing meds and bombing performances in her desperation to be noticed by her parents. In this 'Next to Normal,' the message is loud but not clear 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z There’s more than a whiff of desperation in that misguided silliness. Megyn Kelly’s killer moment with Gingrich was a welcome return to badassery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z There is, however, a forlorn desperation that roils beneath all this — a chilliness worthy of the frostbitten winters that are themselves another weary Canuck cliche. “Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z You can smell the desperation on them as they vainly fling together all manner of spurious statistics in the frantic hope that someone – anyone – will publicise their film. Don Cruella or Hook and his crooks: which Disney villain would serve the longest sentence? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z I read every book about the condition I could find; I studied dyslexia much as I had done for my finals, with a controlled, low-level desperation. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z Junkie desperation, coupled with financial panic, has led to a doubling in new HIV infections in Greece. Greek tragedy: Austerity and addiction 2012-06-26T14:36:00Z Strong emotions — desperation, dread, desire — are indicated but not really communicated, and everything happens in a hazy atmosphere of humorless homage and exquisite good taste. Movie Review: ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Examines Honor and Sacrifice 2013-08-15T21:57:24Z In desperation, he turns to Daryle, a black man who helps people quit the white supremacist movement in exchange for information. Berlinale film explores white supremacist's struggle to reform 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z This is a desperation move for the times you don’t want to pull into a fast-food restaurant, and you’ve got miles to go before you rest. Summer Road Trips Require Perfect Snacks. Here’s Our List. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z There’s been an increasing sense of desperation clinging to the majority of roles picked by Tom Cruise in recent years. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The suggestion appealed to Ms. Jenkins, who saw Jay’s desperation and gallows humor as a refreshing change for her friend. ‘I Am the Night’: Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine Explore the Black Dahlia Mystery 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Messages of desperation flooded a Reddit forum for traders of one of the currencies, a coin called Luna, prompting moderators to share phone numbers for international crisis hotlines. They Did Their Own ‘Research.’ Now What? 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses "Fargo," the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life. 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' chases her 'Fargo' dream 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Songs like “Crazy Kids” and “All That Matters” express a lust for life tinged with apocalyptic desperation. Music: Kesha Tilts Closer to a Rock Sound With ‘Warrior’ 2012-11-25T00:10:06Z “What do they know,” she wrote in 1942, “of my fury, impatience, frustration, ambition, energy, desperation, loves & hates, and of my ecstasies!? Nothing! & they never can.” The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “We see the vulnerability . . . Her eyes are filled with tears and she looks desperate. And I felt like it was important that we see an element of that desperation.” Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher are central to ‘The Crown’ Season 4 — and so are their roles as mothers 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Added to which, you should never overlook the extent to which the desperation of a politician to be considered a player on the world stage can lead him or her to speak inadvertent truths. The Iraq War; Dates – TV review 2013-06-12T21:30:00Z What initially feels like cocky banter between Spike and Faye begins to resemble a last stand against bone-deep desperation, even nihilism. Cowboy Bebop remake: please Netflix, keep the anime classic wild and raw 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z With its lyrics exalting “robins in spring,” “catching the ring,” “rainbows blending” and “peaches and cream,” it reeks of desperation. | 'Happythankyoumoreplease': Singles, City and Child 2011-03-03T23:35:39Z Anxiety and desperation may be a sign of our times -- and not just for Christine, whose show was recently canceled. The rise of TV's "Anti-Mom" 2010-06-07T05:40:00Z He pushed that inquisition into the burst of the housing bubble with this thoughtful and compelling examination of the desperation and exploitation that ensued. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z “Hotel bars smell like class privilege, desperation and hope.” Why Can’t Women Be Serial Killers, Too? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Yet Brian’s mulishness and recklessness sometimes hinted at a desperation in completing his mission. In Furious 7, The Magnificent Slam-urai Bid Farewell to Paul Walker 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z This forced people to “lead lives of quiet desperation,” the key word in that formulation being “quiet,” for their desperation was their little secret. Lessons from the first ‘tiny house’ evangelist, Henry David Thoreau 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Others tried mixtures of ritual and desperation, which Spinney describes with a novelist’s eye: In Odessa, Russia, the community held a “black wedding” between beggars to defend against the disease. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z At every upfront, a sense of desperation was lurking: these networks are desperate to convince advertisers that they are not networks in the stodgy, old-media sense. Critic’s Notebook: TV Networks’ Upfronts Showcase Shows and Desperation 2013-05-17T22:43:10Z A brilliantly constructed episode displaying genuinely mature insight into the desperation of frustrated youth. TV highlights 18/02/2013 2013-02-18T07:00:02Z Mostly, I enjoyed how ordinary the evening felt with its corny jokes, gaudiness, desperation and self-congratulation. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Exposing the gears of race and privilege that grind beneath the unit’s easy familiarity, “Allegiance” sets up a complicated dance of duty, doubt and desperation. Movie Review: ‘Allegiance’ Features a National Guard Unit Headed to Iraq 2012-12-28T04:40:06Z The phrase “good luck” is uttered in both contexts, with different connotations, but the subjects’ desperation, dreams and camaraderie become unifying threads. Review: In ‘Good Luck,’ Miners in Serbia and Suriname Share a Cinematic Link 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Dalí’s desperation may be at its feverish best in his paint surfaces. Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dal? of Constant Ambition 2010-09-02T21:32:00Z “Chances Are” is the high point here, a gleaming song about desperation, with Ms. Womack lonely at a bar, looking to revisit an old mistake: Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z In 21st-century Britain, where feminism is backlashed almost to death, is there hope for stories of polite desperation, against a background of trains and buses and buttered scones? The other Elizabeth Taylor's Complete Short Stories 2012-07-06T21:55:05Z It’s an old term reaching toward an old meaning, with new desperation. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z And finally she read the script, which persuaded her that the title character, a turn-of-the-century widow named Dolly Gallagher Levi, had more need and desperation than she had realized. Bette Midler, Glowin’, Crowin’, Goin’ Strong and Ready for ‘Hello, Dolly!’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “He said, as much as there’s desperation and it’s intense and what he’s running to is so serious, there’s almost a euphoria to it as well. It’s this kind of utter release.” How the Star of ‘1917’ Pulled Off That Thrilling Final Run 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z My combo of bewilderment, desperation, and spunk reapportioned. From magnificent tree to “nurse log”: After her fall, she’s still nourishing me from the forest floor 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The gay street scene depicted in the movie feels more like the 1970s than now, and the film’s dominant mood is one of feverish desperation and hunger. Review: ‘Beautiful Something’: Craving Love in Philadelphia 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Miller catches the dinge of the pub stand-up circuit nicely and certainly nails the desperation. Huge ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:48Z Moved by their desperation, Graves started the Sumba Foundation, a charity that now dwarfs the operation of the resort itself. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z Drama — and desperation — run through many of Tuesday's new DVD releases. New DVDs | 'Man on a Ledge,' 'Goon,' 'Coriolanus' 2012-05-25T22:14:08Z And if the stowaway’s story essentially begins as an escape fantasy, there’s something aspirational in such desperation. ‘The Stowaway’ Appeals to the Thrillseeker in All of Us 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Hotels, sensing the desperation, are here to gouge us. The plight of the Washingtonian in July: Finding a pool. Any pool. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z His fevered desperation fills the room; it threatens to blow out the windows. Three Songs That Pushed Me Forward in 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Bellows was one of a number of painters depicting life as it was, the desperation and diversity and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged into the 20th century. Royal Academy stages retrospective of neglected US artist George Bellows 2013-03-12T17:46:09Z MTV’s picture of the art world varnishes the sheer desperation and insecurity found at almost every level of the game. Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance at an Art Career 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Although Wood never became, except on , a popular star, he had no equal in my lifetime in portraying neurotic desperation or self-mocking irony. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z After consulting with a trusted adviser, Ines applies to Catherine House in an act of desperation. Review | In Elisabeth Thomas’s ‘Catherine House,’ an exclusive university harbors sinister secrets 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z In desperation he runs through the corridors of his hotel, knocking on doors, claiming he’s “looking for a friend.” Review: In Anomalisa, Puppets Have Problems Too 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Espinoza drove in desperation to her former employer’s office to ask for her pay in person. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z “An act of sheer desperation,” Wood called it. Gordon Wood and Woody Holton clash over past and present 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Yet Ruth has been so ground down by poverty and desperation that she scrounges to find the cash to pay for an abortion. Remembering Ruby Dee: A Life of Artistry and Activism 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Fights break out in the food lines due to shortages, desperation and fatigue. Shot at, beaten, starved: the child refugees who will stop at nothing to reach Europe 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z We listened to gory stories of desperation and overdose. My mother, the drug addict 2014-03-31T23:00:00Z It’s a vision of Los Angeles in which pain and desperation are everywhere, pressing people until they break, and the murder of Caspere is merely a catalyst. The Second Season of ‘True Detective’ Wasn’t as Bad as You Think. Here’s Why. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z I understood the desperation of wanting to gnaw off my own limb to free myself. Shattered by childbirth 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z Yet the reader is also asked to empathise with Darke’s “helplessness” and “desperation”, to recognise that “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side.” “Darke”, an unforgettable figure 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The desperation of staying alive is intense -- 18 years of your parents building and defining your morality is just gone. Former 'Bachelor' producer gets real on Lifetime's 'unREAL' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The coded stigma tied to dress is a dead ringer for the pool of 456 contestants in “Squid Game,” who are united in their desperation for a Hail Mary escape from their financial debts. When a Track Suit Embodies a Nation 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z With his interplay of light, movement and sound, Zhou choreographs grand emotions and stirring pathos: the rage of a woman scorned, the desperation of a protective mother, the lost innocence of a forsaken child. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z When he and his men later hole up at a governor’s compound as Taliban fire crackles nearby, the desperation is palpable. ‘Retrograde’ Review: The U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Remember Henry David Thoreau's line about how the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation? Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z “Cold Water,” Olivier Assayas’s paean to adolescent desperation, is as bracing as its title suggests. A Fiery Tale of Teenage Despair, as Fresh as When It Debuted in 1994 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “In desperation,” the account added, “Carr pulled out of his pocket his Boy Scout knife, a relic of his boyhood, and plunged the blade twice in rapid succession into Kammerer’s chest.” Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z Social conditions are manifest in documentary-type shots, filmed in 16 millimeter, of poverty and desperation. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z More recently, unemployment and the rise in casual and temporary labor — at supermarkets or call centers — have fed a sense of desperation. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z The despair of waiting for the results of an exam you know you’ve failed, except amplified to the point of desperation. What He Hadn’t Told Me 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The giddiness that accompanies news of a beloved show returning from the grave has an edge of desperation to it. Some Thoughts on the Planned Return of “Twin Peaks” 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Ted Danson is majestic as DB, who finds himself caught up in dreamlike desperation as he battles to get his granddaughter back. TV highlights 26/02/2013 2013-02-26T07:00:03Z The difference now is that he schleps around this dire weight of desperation as he cries, “Can I stand in your light, just for awhile?” The Strokes Wipe the Slate Clean on Comedown Machine 2013-03-26T11:00:30Z “I think producers could smell the desperation in me,” he told The Akron Beacon Journal in 1997. Ron Palillo, Horshack on ‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’ Dies at 63 2012-08-15T00:48:31Z And though Mr. West is a master zinger slinger, what makes the performance stick in your mind is its sustained, subliminal desperation. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z His characterization of Giovanni, who’s vulnerable, sometimes dim, ever teetering on the brink of showing his full desperation, is arguably the film’s strongest selling point. Review: From Vittorio De Sica, the Comic Anxieties of la Dolce Vita 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The Bagger agrees: it’s about risk, and faith and desperation. The Carpetbagger: It's 'Moneyball,' Not Baseball 2012-01-19T19:30:03Z It’s as if the retrospective’s organizers had, in desperation, dropped some slips of paper in a hat, closed their eyes and plucked one out at random. A Director of Ideas With Decades of Them 2011-05-22T01:13:01Z “Two Pink Lines,” his tale of comic desperation over a pregnancy test, landed with the same punch as his first hit, the brassy “How ’Bout You,” losing its charm in the process. 2010-02-12T22:13:00Z In desperation we tried satirical irony by portraying her as a pleasant person. Margaret Thatcher and Spitting Image: we had no idea we would be joined at the hip 2013-04-17T19:00:01Z It's also a sign of narrative desperation that Guy's flat is invaded by another unexpected visitor in the shape of an ebullient Nigerian claiming to be his adoptive son. The Victorian in the Wall – review 2013-05-17T17:25:57Z Such scenes from the height of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan — moments of fear and desperation as well as unity and resilience — are etched in the mind of artist Yang Qian. One Good Thing: An artist preserves Wuhan’s COVID memories 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z We suspect, however, that politicians do this all time, in their desperation to suggest that they are normal, or to redress a prejudice about them. Politicians' pop-culture love-in 2010-04-20T20:30:00Z It was her job to get them talking and she recounts how she had a breakthrough when she asked the men, in desperation, how the war started. Searching for Richard Holbrooke 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z You have reached a point of pain and desperation in your own life. I’m doing my ex again — why? 2013-04-29T00:00:00Z Readers wrote, with no small desperation, of the impossibility of keeping their job separate from other areas of their life. Mid-year burnout: does it exist or are we all just permanently tired? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But Hurricane Katrina strikes, and all those aspirations turn to desperation. "There's things you don't know about Wu": RZA on "American Saga" & his new post-Katrina heist film 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Useful tip: if someone close to you falls gravely ill, at the outset, in the first flush of anguish and desperation to help? Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z I flew into rages and suffered from a persistent sense of desperation. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Clinging to Tara’s anguished face, Laurie Rose’s camera scrutinizes an unhappiness that builds to an almost tangible desperation. Review: A Married Woman Longs for ‘The Escape’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The problem, maybe, is that they’re too easy, so when a show like The Millers simply throws them in to boost a scene–literally, as laughing gas–the desperation is just obvious. Laughing Gas: In Defense of the Fart Joke 2013-10-02T14:28:05Z There’s a feeling of desperation but also hopefulness. Brandon Flowers on His New Album: 'I'm Still Proving Myself as a Solo Flier' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z What We Say On the playwright: “A common thread in many of Mr. Hunter’s plays is the quiet, or not so quiet, desperation running through many Middle American lives.” 5 Shows for Under 5 Hamiltons 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z For Staples, gangster rap is a cover for a life that isn’t about chains and notoriety but about death and desperation. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z But the experiments never carry that audible hint of tentative desperation you get from artists riffling through styles in search of something that might fit. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito – review 2013-04-11T14:29:01Z As founder of a college prep business called the Key Worldwide Foundation, Singer raked in $25 million worth of parental desperation over an eight-year period. The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In desperation, I kept the whiskey flowing down my throat, mingling with the vile poisons of early withdrawal. Strung out during Katrina 2012-08-30T15:57:00Z There's real empathy in Preston's demonstrations of why they feel such a desperation for meaning and purpose, and why the Course seems like a reasonable answer. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Revelations by Alex Preston 2012-09-25T14:27:51Z With success comes desperation — specifically, desperation to preserve said success. 6 burning questions facing Fall TV in 2018, from “Roseanne” without Roseanne to Fukunaga’s... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z It is powerful to have as the chorus a single pregnant woman – performed with terrific flailing anger and desperation by Lucy Ellinson. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z The characters’ desperation and some of their improbable choices are sketched from a stage of life observed and imagined rather than lived. 'The Roommate': When an 'Odd Couple' story shifts toward 'Breaking Bad' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s an every-man-for-himself desperation to these paintings, which throws them into stark contrast with the story of Noah’s ark and its tidy inventory of animals. Aaron Morse at Acme: Paintings of sublime worlds gone wrong 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Their collective title, however, is revealing: "FOMO," an acronym for Fear of Missing Out, serves fairly well to encapsulate the noxious combination of desperation and self-importance that permeates the show. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It feels more like the semi-feral desperation of a man living in his car. Is this cooking for idiots? My week eating nothing but ‘recipe box’ food 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z I saw that there is a desperation and paranoia about the pressure of keeping this hidden from the world – and this exacerbates the condition. Ruth Wilson: 'I'm not sure there is such a thing as madness' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z In his Nobel acceptance speech, Mr. Fo praised Molière and Il Ruzzante for writing about the fears, desperation and laughter of ordinary people. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z George is admirably warm as the earthbound Hazel, and Dorff suggests the selfishness of his character’s selfless desperation. Review: In ‘Don’t Go,’ Will a Dad’s Dreams Change Reality? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “Here, in a tale of middle-aged angst and literary desperation, all the themes and stylistic experiments of Amis’s earlier fiction come together in a symphonic whole.” A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z “The outdoor industry is under threat,” said Mr. Schwartz, who added that perhaps an initiative like Art Everywhere is a way to “channel desperation into inspiration.” Look Up! All Signs Point to Art 2014-04-06T23:00:00Z Here is Smith, sans magic wand, sans the pearls and lorgnette, facing the camera as an unadorned suburban housewife telling her story of hope and desperation with only her voice and facial expressions. ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z A desperation tugs at the core of most of their conversations. ‘Art is my weapon’: meet the Turkish artist taking on Erdoğan 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Most of us know what it’s like – the desperation, the longing. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z At 17, in desperation, he lied about his age and joined the French Army. Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Pour one out for "Sweet Magnolias" and the lives of quiet, socially acceptable desperation — emphasis on quiet — these women must lead. Bless their hearts: The women of Netflix's "Sweet Magnolias" need to do more than pour it out 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z What really makes Atlanta unique is that there is a strong and encouraging support system; in other cities there was always an underlying feeling of competition and desperation that I just couldn’t thrive in. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Papadimitropoulos, the son of a journalist, spoke on Thursday, the morning after a 77-year-old pensioner committed suicide at Constitution Square, near the Greek Parliament, in an act of desperation and protest. European Crises Pervade Films in Disappearing Act Festival 2012-04-09T19:17:29Z She also is inextricably connected with "I'd Rather Go Blind," which conveys the desperation of a woman who prefers losing her sight to seeing her man with someone else. Blues/R&B singer Etta James dead at 73 2012-01-20T17:02:00Z Kneeling over the toilet bowl, alone on a Saturday night, choking on Top Ramen noodles—the only binge food I could afford—I felt the same hollow desperation I’d experienced when I first got sober. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z Out of desperation, she said, “I would do things like ask, ‘Want to watch a Versace show?’” The Kiddie Couturiers 2011-02-23T21:07:10Z You can almost smell the weariness and desperation rising off of the tar that Micky, in his day job as a road paver, spreads on streets lined with sagging three-decker houses and faded storefronts. | 'The Fighter': Guys, Kiss Mom and Come Out Fighting 2010-12-09T22:56:00Z “Her costumes also connote a kind of desperation,” Ms. Kalfus said. Clothes and Character: 'Annie' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Harris knew his friend was a good person at his core and believed he had committed those crimes as a response to poverty and desperation. A college student’s project helped free his childhood friend from prison 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Down below, where the workers toil, days are long, pay is low and desperation spreads like a virulent disease. Review: ‘The World of Extreme Happiness,’ About China and Gender 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Veteran producers noted that the shift will create Oscar statistics peppered with asterisks, and some said the move carried a whiff of desperation — an institution terrified of irrelevance gambling with yet another major rule change. New Rules to Set Field for Chasing Top Oscar 2011-06-15T22:03:02Z In my desperation I mimed playing it, as if that might clarify the situation, though it must have looked to them as if I was warding off bees. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The corps was ragged at times, shrinking the story’s poetic dimensions, and the parade of ho-hum national dances served only to confirm that Siegfried’s desperation to escape court life is well founded. Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Swan Lake? Shows Freedom and Its Cost 2010-06-23T22:09:00Z None of this is particularly easy to take, even when one allows for the mixture of self-pity, delusion, grandiosity and desperation that typifies the behavior of addicts. Review | In his memoir, Will Self takes his penchant for erratic journeys to the extreme 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z There are so many good performances but, overall, Episodes does gently insult your intelligence with its desperation to include too broad an audience. Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: Science Under Attack 2011-01-24T00:04:00Z Just resolute lips and an unfocused gaze, that refuses to see you, your desperation, humanity and longing. You can have a church or be a free woman – but having both is a struggle 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z |
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