Sentence examples for desperate living from inspiring English sources

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".

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

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".

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".

And with a trio of 1970's classics -- "Pink Flamingos" (one review compared it to "a septic tank explosion"), "Female Trouble" and "Desperate Living" -- Mr. Waters foreshadowed and helped create the reality-TV America of today.

Shot in stark black-and-white CinemaScope, it's set in New Orleans and is about the desperate lives of itinerant barnstorming fairground aviators risking their lives as they eke out a living during the Depression.

"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.

"These people lead quietly desperate lives," said Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University.