Sentence examples for desperate determination from inspiring English sources

So the king prolonged the war, possibly by two years, by his desperate determination.

McEwan's evocation of the desperate determination of French farmers trapped in the battle zone and of the sense of emptiness in wartime London is haunting.

"Billie-Jo's murderer has escaped detection because of the dreadful errors of the police investigation and their single-minded and desperate determination to convict me at all costs.

The character of Willy was most closely modeled on an uncle, Miller said, but his father's precipitous fall from affluence to abjection, and his restless attempts over the years to re-establish himself in business, surely find an echo in Willy's desperate determination to make himself into the success in the eyes of the world that he cannot stop imagining himself to be.

She understands, she said, the people's love-hate relationship with the United States, saying that the waves of immigrants Michoacán sends each year to the United States echo the desperate determination for a better life that is expressed by those who flee Cuban shores by raft.

"And the one thing that will connect this collection of clowns will be a desperate determination to marginalise the Liberal Democrats, for what they all fear above all else is that once again the British people will put the balance of power into our hands.

The feeling of slightly desperate, dusty determination in Tibetan offices is uncannily like that in the Baltic states' surviving embassies in the 1980s.The big difference, of course, is the Dalai Lama, who has the star appeal of Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi combined.

Sometimes the Third Wind, that last desperate burst of energy and determination that comes to us when we feel beyond taking another step, speaks to us as narrator.

He's got a look of steely determination in his eyes, desperate to keep this hot streak going as long as he possibly can.

In one tract house or another, first in South Carolina and then Florida, where we moved when I was a teenager, Mama made magic with cheap meat, flour and determination — hiding from us how desperate things might be.

Their determination to wring every last desperate drop from their talent, in the hope of dragging their team single-handedly to the World Cup finals, was a joy to behold.