Sentence examples for a desperate individual from inspiring English sources

Mr. Weaver called it the move of a "desperate individual".

And the unrest was once again triggered by a desperate individual, who self-immolated in protest at low living standards and political stasis.

I believe them to be fabrications of a desperate individual in order to gain a legal advantage in our separation".

"It's a sickening attempt by a desperate individual to get out of responsibility for his own police misconduct," said Diepraam.

Ruth Goodman hovers around the edges trying to get in a few words of social history and explain who the Chartists were – because maybe option 4 above is not true and there was, at one stage, a single desperate individual still flying the flag for money not being totally pissed up the wall.

Nobody loves a desperate person.

David proves to be a calculating, somewhat desperate individual whose quandary is heightened by his personal record of flashing the race card to advance his career, which happens to be in shambles, and by the rekindling of his romance with Chrissy, whose venerable firm is floundering under her leadership.

This desperate individual not only posed as a patient, he damned near became one..

This desperate individual not only posed as a patient, he damned near became one.

There has of course always been contamination on the edges of sport but never before have we seen the willingness of not just one desperate individual sportsman, but whole groups of them seeking to subvert the basis of the competition to which they were supposedly dedicated.

The small-time tricksters, con artists and salesmen who people Mamet's best plays are desperate individuals, paranoid, lonely dupes of a capitalist system that was pulling a faster one on them than they were on each other.