Sentence examples for desperate mood from inspiring English sources

Before the proceedings started, a chatty, neighborly cheeriness overlay the nerve-racked, sometimes desperate mood underneath.

Tony Uranta, a member of the government committee that proposed the deal, recalls the desperate mood: "Our oil receipts were down and violence was up.

Slashing, smearing, staining and drizzling, the artist conjures a desperate mood; it's as though the paintings were made from the artist's own bodily fluids.

Three years ago, as the economy crashed, reality television producers rushed out shows about pawnshops and scavenging like A&E's "Pawn Stars" and "Storage Wars" -- a reflection of the desperate mood across the country.

This strange creation is doubly hybrid: musically, in its mashing together of Berg and Gershwin's sound worlds, and in its desperate mood, in which Hannigan channels not only the soul of the departed Lulu but also that of Countess Geschwitz, the lesbian who is hopelessly in love with her, and who dies at her feet.

The professor was awake late, in a desperate mood, when he heard the peal of church bells.

After all, despite the uneasy, increasingly desperate mood-state described in "The Bell Jar," the first part of the novel is set against a backdrop of big-city glamour.

The starkness of the sets suits and amplifies the work's desperate moods and places the music in sharp relief.

At home, Golding's sometimes desperate moods were a feature of a family life which Judy describes as "interesting" but never "happy".

If "The Exorcist" or "Psycho"_ _wasn't playing, I could worship a selection of lesser-known slasher films, splatter flicks, psychological thrillers, zombie comedies, paranormal mysteries, crime bio-pics, natural-disaster documentaries, or, in desperate moods, Lifetime melodramas, in which death or scandal threatened earnest suburbanites.

Becker's droll and meticulous observation of a wide range of characters — including Tonkin (Robert Le Vigan), an overbearing soldier returned from Indochina, and Mayflower (Blanchette Brunoy), the girl he loves, who is supposed to marry Monsieur — also reveals the country folk's deep-rooted venality, violence, and tribalism, together with a code of secrecy that conveys the desperate wartime mood.