Sentence examples for desperate feeling from inspiring English sources

That is a desperate feeling, Mr. Sor Vann said, adding, "I still feel like I'm an American".

The desperate feeling beneath this casual ditty comes through with affecting force in Ms. Ables Sayre's performance.

Some of the pennies get sprayed around, evoking the desperate feeling of having to chase after loose coins to survive.

At the same time, it pushes past Wallace's interest in "plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions" into an area of sometimes desperate feeling.

Time was ebbing away, and there was the desperate feeling of straining to get that score with the clock ticking relentlessly in the background.

The airy room on the second floor of Sproul Hall took on the desperate feeling of an unemployment office, with students waiting their turn to plead for emergency loans.

These desperate feelings have translated into increasingly desperate measures.

We also know that most people who contemplate suicide have recently seen a physician and have confided in someone about their desperate feelings.

Then there are his lyrics on "In the Lonely Hour," which Smith has said describe his desperate feelings regarding a single lover – or, rather, someone he wishes had been his lover but who spurned his advances.

For theatergoers who have sat through an exceptionally bloated and desperate-feeling Broadway season, "Smelling a Rat" has the scent of deliverance.

There's a lot of desperate-feeling spin going on about field operations that combines nicely with Team Romney's insistence that their momentum is delivering the election for them.