Sentence examples for lifetime of frustration from inspiring English sources

From such moments unfolds a lifetime of frustration.

What inspired him, he said, was a lifetime of frustration as the son of a fundamentalist Christian preacher in rural Virginia.

"The Death of Cancer" is an angry book, in which one of the critical figures in twentieth-century oncology unloads a lifetime of frustration with the obduracy and closed-mindedness of his profession.

And children with A.D.H.D. need help — not because they're at risk of becoming rapists and arsonists but because, untreated, they're likely to be in for a lifetime of frustration and unhappiness.

Some scenes are staged but simple, like the bum in "Milk," whose clenched gesture sends an elegant, pure spill of milk into the air — summing up a lifetime of frustration and rage.

Maybe it just never mattered enough, though Buchanan could complain about a lifetime of frustration with the music business -- from credit not given to corporate hype -- and then admit that he had often been his own worst enemy.

In 2015 Terence Davies released Sunset Song, his expansive adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel of Scottish hill-farm life; now, early in 2016, another film has emerged: a biopic of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who died in 1886 after a lifetime of respectable frustration.

Resnais's cheerful artifice distills his characters' lifetimes of regret, frustration, and pain into an elegant envoi; in a minute-long monologue delivered by Sabine Azéma — Resnais's wife, now his widow — the director, famous for his manipulations of time, divulges the romantic secret at the core of his art.

An MC's debut album is often fuelled by a lifetime of poverty and frustration, so sudden success creates a lyrical quandary.

Mrs. Wilkinson, clinging to the frayed edge of middle-class respectability, harbors a lifetime of compromise and frustration behind her businesslike demeanor, and Ms. Walters gets it across without a wasted word.

Though the scope of the film is intimate, it ranges through an entire lifetime of dreams and frustrations.