desperations

Does the investigations and desperations of housewives and others, the bad news, the shaming and blaming of "reality" and real celebrities reflect to our youth 'it gets better?'

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011

Does the investigations and desperations of housewives and others, the bad news, the shaming and blaming of "reality" and real celebrities reflect to our youth 'it gets better?'

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011

Nah, more likely they just wanted to get Oscar tongues a-buzzing for Mike Leigh's latest glimpse into joys, pains, hopes, and desperations of ordinary life, especially for a sterling cast that includes Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville and Peter Wight.

Dan Persons: Mike Leigh on Another Year Dan Persons 2010

In fact, most of the Dolly family is in this business as a generation of ill fate, glimpsed from photos in an album, has delivered them to poverty and its desperations.

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: A Hero's Journey: Winter's Bone 2010

Nah, more likely they just wanted to get Oscar tongues a-buzzing for Mike Leigh's latest glimpse into joys, pains, hopes, and desperations of ordinary life, especially for a sterling cast that includes Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville and Peter Wight.

Dan Persons: Mike Leigh on Another Year Dan Persons 2010

The sad thing is not just about seeing the once revered Clintons sink to such low depths of desperations but the fact that the rest of their supporters fail so see them now for what they are; arrongant and single minded in persuit of political power.

Obama supporters planning DNC counter-protest 2008

We are reminded of something higher in us, not that elevates us arrogantly over others -- that is a very different emotion -- but a memory that unites us and frees us of pains, desperations, worries and anxieties: We were made somewhere better, and have the potential to return there.

Haroon Moghul: This Ramadan, Myself and God, Before I Was Born 2010

While the grumbling, eccentric Vox, though isolated, may speak — I suspect — for the desperations and aspirations of many.

April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

We are reminded of something higher in us, not that elevates us arrogantly over others -- that is a very different emotion -- but a memory that unites us and frees us of pains, desperations, worries and anxieties: We were made somewhere better, and have the potential to return there.

Haroon Moghul: This Ramadan, Myself and God, Before I Was Born 2010

While the grumbling, eccentric Vox, though isolated, may speak — I suspect — for the desperations and aspirations of many.

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