Sentence examples for behaviour and a desperate from inspiring English sources

In Italy, until the 17th century, tarantula bites were thought to cause the psychological illness "tarantism", which led to hysterical behaviour and a desperate need to dance, of which they were apparently cured by moving to the upbeat tempo of the folksy tarantella.

I had an anxious night, and a desperate morning.

And a desperate need not to offend.

However, there is a lack of evidence for potentially beneficial treatments, and a desperate need for large well-conducted studies and the standardization of future trials.

"There are consequences for engaging in disruptive behaviour and a mass hunger strike is disruptive behaviour".

Are we witnessing a confession of sorts, a sincere plea that all of the previous behaviour was born of a desperate desire to look cool?

According to child psychologists, Sasha's aggressive behaviour is nothing but a desperate call for attention.

And with a desperate fury, he does.

And there is a desperate need for U.N. reform.

Today, metastasis is essentially an incurable disease and there is a desperate need for new measures to target metastatic progression.

Instead, it focuses on the psychological fallout as Ellis copes - and doesn't cope - with her brush with death and on the reactions of those around her: female friends desperate to fault her behaviour and preclude such a thing from happening to them, male friends who make passes at her, buy her pepper sprays and offer to kill for her as she slips from their embraces.