Sentence examples for desperate behaviour from inspiring English sources

As the American psychiatrist James Gilligan says in The Mask You Live In, a documentary examining masculinity in boys and young men: "Whether it's homicidal violence, or suicidal violence, people resort to such desperate behaviour only when they are feeling shamed and humiliated, or feel that they would be if they didn't prove that they were real men".

Though he tries to moderate Rick's desperate behaviour, he is quietly frustrated with him, and conspires against Rick's interests.

Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton's communication director, called his tone and behaviour "desperate and disrespectful" and said it was a sign of his campaign's mounting frustration at the current dynamic of the primary race.

During one infamous trip to Las Vegas, his wife, Jannie, became so desperate about his behaviour that she locked herself in a toilet to stop him from asking for more money to gamble with.

Which means there's good reason to expect some pretty desperate and shady behaviour around and directed the lawmakers, regulators, and taxmen.

But overall, Jessica Jones has pushed beyond the usual limits of a superhero show by exploring the darker, more desperate sides of human behaviour, aided by black humour and Jessica's permanently raised eyebrow.

Cochetel acknowledged that only a significant interest in building a new system would create a change in behaviour among desperate migrants, but pointed out that pressure outside Europe's borders made it an urgent task.

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.

This is despite Cornish's behaviour being "desperate and beyond caring", "out of control" and "chaotic".

If Noddy Holder on that festive audio loop a dozen times a day wasn't bad enough, the boorish behaviour of increasingly desperate shoppers or dead-eyed drinkers was enough to tip us over the edge.

He's thought about it since and he's concluded that it's what we're all doing, all the time; imitating someone else's behaviour in the desperate hope that it will make us colourfully real.