Sentence examples for close to desperate from inspiring English sources

The lobbying became so fierce that a Bank of England official noted that the trade group "is close to desperate for even a small hook to imply that there will be a dialogue with central banks".

Mr. Ayer, who wrote "Training Day" and directed "Harsh Times," invests his work with palpable energy — his films feel urgent and at times, interestingly, close to desperate — but he has next to no idea how to control or channel all that manic intensity.

His vices are mild — he'll drink too much and rewatch Red Sox championship games — and he's not degenerate, but he is close to desperate.

The turnout was staggering: close to 45,000 desperate homeowners showed up during NACA's five-day stand at the Cow Palace for the chance to renegotiate their disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates or interest-only payments.

Still, Bryant is close to retirement and desperate for one last shot at a championship.

But, as he argues, the system does not even come close to answering the desperate need for medicine, and for spare parts for Iraq's crumbling infrastructure.

And actually, probably this world of theatres and galleries is the strange fantasy, and most people in the world live lives closer to those desperate people on the verge of collapse every day".

"Everybody close to me knows how desperate I am to play in the Premier League again, but when Newcastle comes in for you it makes you think.

"When you're talking about species that are this close to extinction, it is desperate, and it is time to pull out the stops and do whatever you can and worry about the politics later on".

We shouldn't abandon the values we claim to uphold by closing the doors to desperate refugees, who, after all, are fleeing the kind of places where last Friday in Paris is an ordinary night.

But he comes close to doing so, sounding almost desperate to stretch the semantic elastic to satisfy the doubters.