Sentence examples for desperate existence from inspiring English sources

Her father died not long ago, of a heart attack, at 56, and she seems more sympathetic than angry about his desperate existence.

For Sham, who fled Syria with her family, life in Damascus before the war was idyllic, in stark contrast to their desperate existence in Amman, Jordan.

(Kehr) 'FROWNLAND' (Thursday) Ronald Bronstein's critically admired study in outer-borough anguish, about a door-to-door coupon peddler (Dore Mann) leading a lonely, desperate existence in a Brooklyn tenement, returns for a special screening in the director's presence.

It was by no means a desperate existence – we always had enough food, and the house was always heated – but it was quite empty from my point of view.

Announcing a 1967 fund-raising appeal, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, then president and publisher of The Times, expressed the hope that the paper's editorial support would "ensure the continuity of pioneering programs that lift the minds and hearts of future citizens beyond the often bleak and desperate existence of a closed or semi-isolated society".

Like its predecessors, Romero's low-fi brand of filmmaking gives the proceedings an unsettling documentary realism and the viewer is immediately drawn into Martin's desperate existence.

And there is a lovely metaphor for the protective deadening of expectations and dreams in the heroines' desperate surburban existences: "When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep.

Speaking to journalists at a press conference, Cronenberg said: "As a card-carrying existentialist, I can tell you [Hollywood] people are desperate to exist; they're desperate to assert their existence".

He's a comic existentialist whose self-loathing and attraction to the self-erasure of death is matched by his self-love and desperate clinging to existence.

It is only the actors who star in the shows I feel the fondest toward and most protective of that I wish to curse with this starving, desperate, permanently unemployed existence.

By sheer force of conversation, Maron's guests typically open up, revealing the startling, desperate, and sometimes inspiring existence of the modern clown.