Sentence examples for basic desperation from inspiring English sources

Yet the relationship between Pacino's live-wire Sonny and Chris Sarandon's clingy, forlorn, droopy-eyed Leon still played as a kind of jaw-dropping quirk, a bizarre embellishment of the central character's basic desperation.

"Without a functioning space for hope, positivity and genuine care, these communities will descend into savagery due to sheer desperation for basic needs to be met".

But what he calls a "tilt" in federal support toward applied research over basic science has created a "desperation situation" for academic researchers that "in my view, is probably the worst since the Second World War".

Mr. Salonen also finds distant similarities between Finnish and Hungarian folk music, he said, "not so much tonally but in a certain spirit of basic expression, darkness and sadness and almost desperation of both nations' temperaments".

The frightening question in this drama, directed by Bernhard Wicki, is whether the desperation of poverty is stronger than basic morality.

However, frequently, graduate students venture into a postdoc out of a feeling of desperation for a job, resulting in a lack of inquiry about basic elements of the appointment and little or no negotiation for benefits.

I think it's about time to fight "ignorance" and "desperation" through an Education for All campaign, openly declaring education as a basic human right.

If cities want to retain young professionals, city governments should focus on basics like greenlighting new housing, not planning rock concerts and pickup basketball games — measures that smack of desperation and cluelessness.

Ah, desperation.

Desperation inspired creativity".

Financial desperation?