At first this fractured disorder seems a kind of artlessness -- well-handled omniscient narration is a real authorial skill -- but gradually the artfulness in the method reveals itself and Molly's world, her life and desperate aspirations begin to cohere and captivate.
The plays of Bertolt Brecht are political theatre; self-immolations by people long desperate to have their aspirations for freedom and religious self-determination acknowledged are not.
(Amos et al., 2005, p. 184) Individuals generally associated smoking with negative characteristics relating to physical appearance (e.g., having yellow teeth and smelling), psychological characteristics (e.g., being desperate and anxious), and future aspirations (e.g., not being successful).
Children shook with excitement, desperate to be able share their aspirations.
"He's living in the most desperate circumstances yet he still has great aspirations.
They've just elected a handsome empty vessel to pursue their presidential aspirations, but are still in desperate search of what would today be called a message.
Their diaries and letters, revealing their private thoughts, aspirations, dreams and desires, their privations, mistakes and desperate endurances.
"Who would care if your plane crashed?" Single women who had placed "career ambition" ahead of matrimonial aspirations were said to be especially distraught, and desperate to remedy their "mistake".
For much of the presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore has been cast as the desperate master of morphing and derided for earth-toned makeovers and alpha-male aspirations.
