Sentence examples for portrait of desperation from inspiring English sources

Yet what has wound up on the stage is a portrait of desperation that itself feels harshly, wantonly desperate.

A twitchy Mr. Hawke builds a persuasive portrait of desperation with little help from the script and despite playing a character who makes so many mistakes he might as well be on a suicide mission.

The Guggenheim's chief curator, Nancy Spector — who, working closely with the artist, has installed the show with excellent rhythm and clarity — hastens, in an essay in the catalogue, to defend the work as social criticism, "a portrait of desperation" exposing the American pursuit of fame at any cost.

The Guggenheim's chief curator, Nancy Spector who, working closely with the artist, has installed the show with excellent rhythm and clarity hastens, in an essay in the catalogue, to defend the work as social criticism, "a portrait of desperation" exposing the American pursuit of fame at any cost.

Interviews in the past month with eight North Koreans who recently left their country — a prison escapee, illegal traders, people in temporary exile to find work in China, the traveling wife of an official in the ruling Workers Partyy — paint a haunting portrait of desperation inside North Korea, a nation of 24 million people, and of growing resentment toward its erratic leader, Kim Jong-il.

Capote, meanwhile, published chapters from his long-gestating "Answered Prayers" in Esquire, and the resulting fallout — longtime friends, recognizing themselves in the barely veiled portraits of desperation and decadence, cut Capote off — infuriated and hurt him.

Mr. Jones and Ms. Boothe memorably perform separate dances that evolve from playful satire (in Mr. Jones's case) and sensuality (with Ms. Boothe) into disturbing portraits of desperation.

Naomie Harris, "Moonlight" — As a crack-addled mother in an impoverished neighborhood of Miami, the English actress spent only three days on set, but her portrait of addiction, desperation, and broken love is indelible and unsparing.

And behind the portrait of individual desperation lurks a wider point about a society, six months after Mrs Thatcher's elevation to power, that has nothing much to offer but a savourless materialism.

Her first single, "Merry Go Roundd," a catchy, bittersweet portrait of small-town desperation, had been receiving strong airplay since September and had recently entered the country-radio Top 10.

Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of the Washington Post for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.