The phrase "desperate concern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a strong feeling of worry or anxiety about a situation.
Example: "The community's desperate concern for the safety of their children led to a town hall meeting."
Alternatives: "urgent worry" or "grave concern".
It scoffs at your desperate concern.
The banter was undercut by a desperate concern about the rescue — and if it would come in time.
But more than that, they expressed a desperate concern for their country's woes, and for someone to do something about them.
Just as in March , 1979 when we watched with desperate concern what would happen to that reactor near Harrisburg, PA, we...await news of Chernobyl, some 70 miles north of Kiev, the 3rd-largest city in the USSR.
Like many black Americans, Mr. Jones felt a surge of pride, recognition and hope, he said, when he heard the first African-American president speak so candidly about issues that are of desperate concern within the black community but are often ignored in political debates.
In spite of my own misgivings and desperate concerns, I cannot help to be anything but passionately, defiantly optimistic as well.
Against the background of another summer of extraordinary achievement for British sport, the last thing Premier League football needed was the prolonged and essentially desperate saga concerning the whereabouts of Wayne Rooney's future.
Its documentarian style introduces us not only to the horror of heads turning backwards and pea soup vomit, but to the terrors of faith on trial, the desperate need and concern of parental love and the whole question of hw belief overcomes the empirical nastiness of the world.
And states are responding in sometimes desperate ways, raising concerns that they, too, could face a debt crisis.
A government spokesman dismissed the concerns as "desperate scaremongering".
Mr. Mellor's Menelaos gets a wicked little gestural dance, the flights and flutters of his hands revealing his treacherous lack of dependability, especially concerning the desperate, Furies-beset Orestes (Mickey Solis, far more engaging here than in "Elektra").
