Sentence examples for moral desperation from inspiring English sources

Full of silky guys in boxy suits sparring for advantage, it's also rife with betrayals and acts of moral desperation.

As Frank Frink gets caught up in the Resistance — to the dismay of Juliana and his best friend, Ed (D. J. Qualls) — his increasing militancy is portrayed as moral desperation, a loss of faith in anything but self-destructive violence.

The moral is that desperation is our friend.

At times, the British accents suggest, at least to my American ears, keeping calm and carrying on, rather than the desperation and moral compromise.

Decrying budget deficits rather than moral deficits is an act of desperation among Christian extremists, Boston postulated.

This has brought them a wider though by no means a mass audience, including in America, where the most foreign aspect of their work might be the desperation — economic but also moral — of its characters.

But the underlying passions are the same: impulse, emotions, desperation and finally the moral lessons we learn from life.

Just as her Scottish predecessor struggles to navigate between his goals and his morals, Maria is torn between her desperation for a coveted scholarship and what she knows is right.

And as Stephen navigates his moral obstacle course with accelerating clumsiness and desperation, Mr. Gallagher cannily conveys the toll of his confusing role with soul.

One could say Hamas fits this definition out of desperation and a lack of moral leadership.

Its moral dilemmas are to do with right and wrong, justice and revenge, desperation and survival on an heroic scale.