Sentence examples for bordering on desperation from inspiring English sources
The tone of the lobbyists is one of alarm bordering on desperation.
At a time when everyone in the publishing and media industries is scratching their heads and bordering on desperation, Slitkin is being heralded as a boy genius.
Despite those shortcomings in attack, O'Neill is adamant his side will be going out to win against hosts who are bordering on desperation having lost to Serbia and drawn with Wales last month.
They identify with children and cling to the innocence of childhood with a ferocity bordering on desperation: Holden wants to be the catcher in the rye, who keeps kids from falling off a cliff; Seymour communes with a little girl on the beach about bananafish, before going upstairs to his hotel room and shooting himself in the head.
I note all this with a sense of frustration bordering on desperation.
Especially in her sexual relationships, which Ms. Fielding described in hilarious detail, Bridget bordered on a desperation that might not have seemed the least bit funny when dramatized.
"The writing brings back moments of utter frustration, desperations, times bordering on insanity," the photographer told the Daily Mail.
And at the Winter Garden, Judy Kaye, a star of the silly, buoyant new musical "Mamma Mia!," has been detecting in the crowds a depth of need she never before experienced, a desire to be taken out of themselves that borders on desperation.
This is bordering on abuse.
