Sentence examples for desperate lives from inspiring English sources

"They led desperate lives," he says of his parents.

They are bullied at school, rejected by their families, and consigned to marginal — even desperate — lives.

Puccini's operas are particularly obsessed with the desperate lives of artists.

You occasionally long for a writer's eye that can really 'see' such desperate lives, a Naipaul or a Kapuscinski.

Or to justify once and for all Chekhov's having labeled this study of desperate lives "a comedy"?

There seem as many acronyms as lost souls in the shelters where New York's homeless cycle through routinely desperate lives.

It called to mind the horror of a character Mink Stole played in John Waters's "Desperate Living".

We also met LIZ RENAY, who starred as a murderous housewife in Mr. Waters's 1977 movie "Desperate Living".

The "Baltimore contingent," as Mr. Waters called them, were also on hand -- respectable-looking folks who had performed unspeakable acts in early Waters movies like "Pink Flamingos"and "Desperate Living".

It's part of what Waters has labeled his Trash Trilogy, which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977).

With the advent of the DVD and my letterbox TV, I can watch a double feature of Wong Kar-wai's "2046" (with the help of my multiregion DVD player) followed by John Waters's "Desperate Living".