Sentence examples for desperate expression from inspiring English sources

"You don't remember Skat?" Dick took on an almost desperate expression now.

He had a battered suitcase, tattered clothes and a desperate expression.

A single voice punctuates a series of harrowing images: the desperate expression in a man's eyes, a snapshot of a revolution.

On the streets of Karachi, Pindi and Lahore they came in their tens of thousands brandishing fists and images of Aafia Siddiqui with her sunken features and desperate expression.

She looked much older than the mother of a seventeen-year-old, and had a resigned, desperate expression as she pointed to the flooded area where she had once had a decent home and small farm.

Mr. Imperioli seems particularly desperate, his only expression the nervous, shifty stare of a man looking for the exit.

Needing and asking for help must be big and desperate and emotional expressions.

(IC-13) These desperate actions are expressions of the informal caregivers' struggle to gain influence and demonstrate that the care recipient's safety is compromised without their cooperation.

In 1958, Frank Sinatra called rock 'n' roll "the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear".

Germany's rapid industrialization and the tardiness of modernization in Austria-Hungary and Russia, he concluded, created instabilities in central and eastern Europe that found expression in desperate self-assertion.

His expression is desperate, his hands look sanded to the sinew.