Sentence examples for gentle desperation from inspiring English sources
With his tortured walk, in which every step is an effort, and expression of gentle desperation, Billy is Inishmaan incarnate, a place where life is a strenuous, tedious, hope-busting chore that turns people into small-time monsters.
Others again mention our gentle, stoic defeatedness: "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way," as Larkin might have put it if Pink Floyd hadn't got there first.
Adolescent sexuality, even of the gentler sort, has undertones of savagery and desperation that the movie barely acknowledges.
Playwright Lanford Wilson, a gentle writer from Missouri who wrote of urban desperation but most revealed his heart through rich and emotional dramas centered on the struggles of small-town Midwestern life, died Thursday at a hospital in Wayne, N.J.
In desperation, each turns to John Singer Henry Stramm), a gentle-eyed mute, taking his passive friendliness for profound understanding.
Gentle argues that businesses shouldn't take advantage of graduates' desperation, since internships "have proven benefits for both the employer and job seeker," and stresses that paid schemes are out there.
Soon, tales mounted of the gentle priest who would materialize to assist immigrants in moments of desperation.
Desperation more than realism prompted two home penalty claims, for hand-ball against Andy Webster and then a gentle push on Steven Naismith.
You need a smooth, gentle voice and an arsenal of syrupy come-ons, but you also need something else: a sobbing overtone of sexual desperation; a gravely hint of menace; a fierce, throaty suggestion of perseverance, maybe even revenge.
