Sentence examples for desperate quest from inspiring English sources

Intimacy, whether emotional, spiritual or physical, drives this book, as well as an increasingly desperate quest for solace.

The choices voters make in their desperate quest for authenticity are not always wise or well grounded in reality.

The film resonated with my students precisely because they recognized something of themselves in Leonard and his desperate quest.

Arsenal's increasingly desperate quest for silverware has tended to fall away in the spring in recent seasons.

In the desperate quest for a majority, the Cameroonian project to detoxify the Tory party has been paused, perhaps abandoned.

As my sexual appetite grew, I found myself engaged in an increasingly desperate quest to satisfy it.

The Korean director Hong Sangsoo, born in 1960, offers self-deprecating portrayals of desperate quests for hard experience which resemble Bergman's own.

Dory's recovers Chantal's abandoned copy of "Anna Karenina," with its starry marginalia and half-bright highlighting underlining the show's running theme of desperate, questing searches.

The cursed circle of male aggression and female turmoil (and, for Cassavetes, gender roles were always decisive) are part of the desperate love quest, the need to connect despite the constant chill of ultimate solitude.

But what is the point of Moore's fiction of a desperate, wandering quest for medicine on the streets, as if he hadn't known in advance that Cuba has free health care?

Here we come to the heart of the matter: the desperate Republican quest to portray Obama as a quasi-European intent on the very European business of managed decline rather than renewed American glory.