Sentence examples for desperate material from inspiring English sources
This is fine, suspenseful fiction springing from human lives in extremis; despite the historical distance, I was reminded of Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales and the grace fiction can distil from desperate material.
Indeed, the sense one gets from visiting the Darfur and Chadian refugee camps is that the inhabitants manage to retain the joys of community even under circumstances of desperate material need.
The raps — by Black Thought and regular Roots collaborators including Dice Raw, Greg Porn and Phonte, with occasional neo-soul vocal choruses from Bilal Olver — are about desperate conditions, material temptations and futile gratifications.
The practice, known as a "paper review," falls under the critical gaze of "Dateline NBC" tonight in a segment that proves network news magazines can still produce compelling reports in a genre that has lately seemed desperate for material.
Desperate for materials and short on funds, the palace was initially built entirely out of wood, its various structures surrounded by a simple log palisade.
The deals with counterparts to the north started during the writers' strike in 2007-8, whenetworksks in the United States were desperate for fresh material.
I am so desperate for reading material that I rush out to the mailbox, only to discover some junk mail and a double issue of Cannibalism Today.
It wasn't done to us, it was done to many victims that may well be watching TV, horrified that society finds it so funny … It's the lowest common denominator taken to a new low, [by] comedians whose brand it is to be disgusting, or who are insecure and desperate for any material at all.
ABC came back from the dead by finding fresh material: "Desperate Housewives," "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" are all hits that owe part of their success to originality; there was nothing like "Lost" on television when it began, and now imitations keep multiplying.
"Young writers seem to forget that people in the industry are desperate for good material.
