But all had in common sufficient desperation to take the gamble which, according to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, last year saw 219,000 people cross the Mediterranean to Europe at a cost of 3,500 lives lost at sea.
But they all had something in common: the sense of desperation and lack of hope.
In an emergency situation the level of empathy sometimes raises so much that people forget about all the man-made, illogical rules that prevent action, and a common goal founded on desperation and urgency becomes the driving factor.
This warped sense of value is all too common amidst the fragmentation and desperation of modern life, in its "restless, nervous, bustling, trivial" activity (Walden, XVIII).
What was special about the World Cup was the common bond – the prayers and desperation offered in the same direction.
Desperation shopping has been common in Venezuela in recent days, since President Nicolas Maduro's move to force shop owners to cut prices on appliances and electronics.
Weterings advises you can prevent this common mistake by relinquishing the feeling of desperation that you have to take a job without asking vital questions about it from the start.
If anything, in common with the best screwball, it writhes with desperation, every bit as fraught as the flight of Bruno in the earlier film.
This desperation to seem responsible is an affliction common to new parties; in the end, it makes them entirely useless.
But (and in this sense it does have something in common with the Powell-Pressburger movie) it also probes the warping desperation within the compulsion to create art.
