Sentence examples for atmosphere of desperate from inspiring English sources

And Indonesia something like the same.' He fell in love with the atmosphere of desperate invention in both cities.

Furst misses nothing in recreating the atmosphere of those dangerous, desperate years.

A striking contradiction in Laos lies in the boomtown atmosphere of Vientiane & the desperate poverty that grips the nation which was ravaged first by the Vietnam War & then by the Stalinist economic strictures imposed by the Pathet Lao.

It seemed as if the "sores of history", as the Irish writer Hubert Butler once called them, remained unhealed more than half a millennium later – at least in the desperate, degraded atmosphere of that time and place.

Dreams deferred and defeated characterize so much of the Jersey atmosphere, from Bruce Springsteen's ambitious desperados dancing in the dark to Snooki's manic flights of desperate ambition.

The strength of The Girls lies in Cline's ability to evoke both the textures and atmosphere of those painful in-between times; the desperate rush to fill an emotional vacuum.

There are years of desperate appeals.

That's kind of desperate".

The call for a general strike, in this new age of networked protest, organised online, via back channels and affinity groups of desperate people in student flophouses, seems to be as much about mood as it is about strategy – in the way that one might call, say, for a general party atmosphere.

A string of desperate jokes is BAD.

Middle-class problems: Hosting a dinner party By Daisy Stenham A Dinner party is one of those strange social rituals at which it is imperative to appear as unfussed as possible in a desperate attempt to disguise an atmosphere of low-level mania.