Sentence examples for desperate activity from inspiring English sources

"It's a desperate activity; it fights back," he said.

The perspective is dazzling and jarring, and Mr. Cuarón allows a few moments of quiet, contemplative beauty to punctuate the busy, desperate activity of staying alive.

We find desperate activities of choice, pursued with a kind of unconscious frenzy.

Tells his aunt that he is going to perform a difficult trick, and proceeds to put a glass beneath a towel, and after a few minutes of desperate concealed activity make it disappear.

The Schneiders were desperate for some activity for their boys to focus on — one that would bring crucial interaction with nonautistic children and allow a physical outlet for their boundless energy.

Nor would it engage in the desperate fund-raising activities that have come to light.

Both seem like uphill battles in a state desperate for more economic activity and tax revenue.

The Scouts are currently running a waiting list of 35,000 young people desperate to access their activities.

The report said much of the activity came from "desperate sellers," so it may not be a fair gauge of where prices will go from here.

Since depositors' money is used to support their more lucrative investment banking activities, banks were desperate to protect this source of funding.

Then, when the revolution began, they started calling me every week because they were in desperate need of arranging public activities that would show they were doing something good, as a way of saying, "Look, we don't have problems in Syria".