Court politics and bad luck plunge their household into hard times, and as a portrait of good people in desperate circumstances, "Hara-Kiri" is remarkably sensitive and moving.
I don't know if it was sheer luck or desperate paddling, but I managed to get through several rapids without going for a swim.
She's lined up to star in Agent: Century 21, a story about a down-on-her-luck divorcée desperate to protect her job as a real-estate agent and her children who end up in the middle of a Mexican drug war.
The freeway system, which Southern Californians once saw as a ticket to freedom, an emblem of L.A.'s love of individuality and movement, increasingly serves as a landscape of hard luck and a desperate sort of community — a place to hunker down.
While wary of my own luck, I was also desperate for support.
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On the final day of the campaign, Green, outspent, outmaneuvered, and out of luck, put up a last, desperate commercial.
Which makes it all the more wrenching that the Swedish government has responded to Saab's desperate financial situation by saying, essentially, tough luck.
Yet, desperate fans still showed up to try their luck.
But hard time and bad luck have made Tony tough and maybe desperate.
