Sentence examples for My desperation from inspiring English sources
Clad in what she calls "my desperation dress," Jeanette gets drunk, making a fool of herself and her horrified son.
MY desperation for good tomato flavor in the winter (documented here a few weeks ago in a column about sun-dried tomatoes) led me a year or two ago to try roasting canned tomatoes.
My desperation is noisy, voluble, and visible.
"My desperation filled the house," he writes.
My desperation increasing, I reached out to two men who, between them, know pretty much everything there is to know about eating in America, at least east of the Mississippi: Ed Levine, founder of the Web site Serious Eats, and John T. Edge, the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and the guru of Dixie eats.
But if anything had become clear to me, it was my own desperation, my willingness to spring at this largely speculative ideology that offered a vestige of that first religious promise.
I assume that lack of personal interest was mutual, as they never noticed my track marks and generally ignored my obvious desperation.
I'm ashamed to say that, in my abject desperation to fit in, I didn't chuck my fist in the face of those who thought it was cool to nickname the only black guy in our year "token".
The 'but' being a clear acknowledgement of my rank desperation.
Arabella Weir: The following squirmingly shameful display took place at the peak of my singledom desperation.
