Sentence examples for desperate frustration from inspiring English sources

Unruly children are hit, parents are violently defied, or crying babies shaken, out of a sense of overwhelming, desperate frustration.

L'Engle's children and grandchildren who love her deeply, but with a kind of desperate frustration spliced with resentment revile "Two-Part Invention".

But since Cecil has decreed no sex until the movie is completed, they all live in a state of desperate frustration.

"No priest can watch the blood pouring from the wounds of the dying, be they American or Vietnamese of the north or south, without anguish and a sense of desperate frustration and futility," he continued.

The bombshell announcement signals a desperate frustration with the status quo.

In the film, two high school girls in an exclusive East Coast enclave lead lives of blank loneliness and a desperate frustration for something else.

You would have thought, then, that he would be a seething ball of frustration, desperate to keep his scoring run going, but he says his growing maturity means he is relaxed about the situation.

In the most famous of the TV Talking Heads series (another formal experiment), Bennett shows a woman driven by desperate loneliness and frustration to seek sexual consolation in a bed of lentils at the back of a grocer's shop.

In each, an eventual tutti arrives only after a sequence of exquisite and touching frustrated utterances -- and arrives perhaps as a failure, since frustration, under desperate conditions, is what the piece is about.

Gen. Maurice Gatereste, commander of the Burundi contingent, called the attack "an act born out of frustration and desperate desire" to recapture the compound.

To witness true frustration, watch desperate PC users trying to type, send e-mail or work on a spreadsheet, only to be delayed by those pesky hourglass icons for seconds or even minutes until their computers finally respond.