Sentence examples for degrees of desperation from inspiring English sources

Now, when I'm writing, I start with characters in various degrees of desperation.

On Saturday nights she cycles to the Ballroom of Romance, a bleak, isolated hall where local men and women mingle with varying degrees of desperation.

But even without facing famine, riots and locusts, everyone's life is, like theirs, about choices, loyalties, work, the inevitability of ups and downs, degrees of desperation and occasional blind luck.

Of course, the viewer was free – as always – to draw his or her own conclusions, allocate sympathy and make judgments about the different degrees of desperation and disadvantage probably experienced by white immigrants from a developed country and those flooding in from undeveloped and war-torn nations.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Being forced, perhaps, as you were? A. I guess a degree of desperation.

It illustrates the degree of desperation, frustration and sense of helplessness.

As it is, my having to resort to SCHI and IVORIEST indicated a degree of desperation.

It's a sign of some degree of desperation to sell them singly only two months before.

Here in Cambodia, though, aid workers describe a more Darwinian struggle and a generally higher degree of desperation among villagers.

And so the degree of desperation and the shock to the system may not be as great.