Sentence examples for a desperate case of from inspiring English sources

It's weird because he's usually great company but that night it looked like a desperate case of everybody-look-at-me syndrome at a party where he wasn't the centre of attention.

She can't help listening in on the calls of the various misfit clients and trying to straighten out their lives, among them a playwright with a desperate case of writer's block; a dentist who wants to be a songwriter, and an actor who can't get a job.

Not one of them remotely qualifies as a desperate case.

The authorities were contacted for help in some desperate cases of damaged homes and heaters.

Intravitreous injection of silicone is considered useful for desperate cases of retinal detachment in which more convectional procedures have failed.

Like the ones conducted in adults, these studies have serious limitations, including administration of the drug in desperate cases and evaluation of small numbers of patients.

Marcus Petronius, a centurion of the same legion, had tried to cut down a gate, but was overpowered by superior numbers and in desperate case.

Litaviccus escaped to Gergovia with his dependents; for, according to the custom of Gaul, it is a crime in dependents to desert their patrons, even in desperate case.

Lawyers had handpicked the young Afghan as one of the most desperate cases in Calais – a vulnerable and lonely child who deserved to be urgently reunited with a family member.

He's my favorite saint, patron of desperate cases.

I just want to be in my house". The reunited family headed to a church in Los Angeles so that Avelica-Gonzalez could thank Jude the Apostle, the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes, for his good fortune.