Sentence examples for quiet desperate from inspiring English sources

Ethan Learner's pursuit of his son's killer converts the book into a quiet, desperate murder mystery.

Her quiet, desperate sadness trickles through every narrative, and it is her happiness that we long for.

I've certainly written characters and stories that were more extreme, more volatile and loud, but it's true that I have a predisposition for the quiet, desperate burn.

True to the confessional genre, O'Connor tends to match raw emotion with spare sounds; the programmed minimalism of the Prince-penned single "Nothing Compares 2 U" is characteristic of the quiet, desperate, lovelorn beauty of most of the album.

Promised Land was tightly written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski (who co-stars in the film as a treehugger ostensibly having come to a quiet, desperate farming town sitting on top of a fortune, since gas is as good as gold) from a story by Dave Eggers.

Behind highly documented episodes of persecution, famine and war lie quieter, desperate stories of individuals and families who did what they could to survive, to find one another and to come to terms with the burden of being physically and psychologically broken.

It no longer manages to combine the trashiness of a Poison song, the pointless vapidity of an episode of Entourage, and the quiet desperation of the quiet and desperate who move here with hopes and dreams of stardom, only to have those hopes and dreams dashed upon the harsh rocks of reality.

Still, desperate times call for desperate measures.

I was haunted by his lyricism, his stirring passion, his quiet and desperate sadness.

Many single parents learn early to keep their heads down, their challenges quiet, their desperate moments secret.

I frequented that town many times when I was there, and remember fondly its sagging tin-roofed wharves on the bank of the Rajang River, the palm trees everywhere, its Chinese bazaar and Malay kampongs, the Somerset Maugham-esque desperate quiet of the place for those unhappy colonialists who still remained.