Sentence examples for work hopelessly from inspiring English sources

Yet, the advanced contemporary composers of the time considered the work hopelessly derivative, and disdained the very qualities in the score that made it popular: lushly tonal harmonic language, sumptuous melodic writing, a traditional operatic structure complete with set-piece ensembles, highly charged dramatic recitative and arias calculated to stop the show and elicit applause.

Rather than the obscure academic of Kraus's book, cherished by Chris in part for his artistic inferiority ("As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naïve, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it"), Dick in the show is played by Kevin Bacon, that American icon of ubiquity.

"Their work is hopelessly unphotogenic," she said.

Several biographies and museum exhibitions have boldly ignored the postwar interpretation of Rockwell's work as hopelessly square, and recognized him for the very real and lasting contribution he made to the nation's culture and consciousness.

Byrne said: "Our back to work system is hopelessly centralised.

After the screening, I wandered into a shoe-box-size record store -- the kind of place designed to make anyone who doesn't work there feel hopelessly square.

He could no longer work and became hopelessly angry with the world.

The drummer, Carmine Covelli, matched Ms. Hanna's joy and zeal, but often the rest of the band appeared to be working against her, hopelessly cluttering her message.

In this spirit of compromise, reckons one company boss, most unions are likely to settle for lower pay rises than they are currently demanding.In fact, unions have been quietly giving ground for some years, making a nonsense of the idea that German working conditions are hopelessly rigid.

The government's flagship back-to-work programme was "hopelessly centralised" and the UK should follow the lead of Germany and Canada in giving local councils more freedom to pursue their own priorities.

But these procedures and tools do work (and are not hopelessly naïve).