Sentence examples for material desperation from inspiring English sources
The talented Mexican director Carlos Reygadas ("Japón") strives to say something about his country, to tap into the spiritual and material desperation of its people, but doesn't seem especially committed to his material.
And given our standards of living, we are unlikely to comprehend, viscerally, the material desperation that many of our fellow Americans feel.
Desperation is a material for artists".
The fundamentalism of the policies being pushed by the Tories, and echoed in police tactics, is rooted in desperation of the material collapse of global capitalism – and the scope of reform runs much further than the darkest years of Thatcherism.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.
"Many of them have reached out to us themselves out of desperation for a place to sell their material".
Desperation has prompted innovation: Batroukh's principle building materials are rough bricks made from Gazan clay.
This lauded actress often rises above her material, and she does so repeatedly in the first half of the film, with desperation but brittle pride as she loses her home and security.
Day of Desperation, January 23 , 1991
