Sentence examples for desperate note from inspiring English sources

But "Mockingbird" begins on a facile, slightly desperate note.

"From now on we have to try and stay confident and believe in what we've got here," said forward Brandon Dubinsky, sounding a somewhat desperate note.

The letter arrived in the New York State attorney general's office in late 2006 — a desperate note from a woman in Yonkers with ovarian cancer.

Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist, urged climate scientists to sound a "more desperate note … Be arrested if necessary". A concerned member of the public judged my efforts at public engagement successful only if they showed "evidence of persuasion".

This is a good play by Nina Raine given a great production that ends on a heartfelt, desperate note with two people trying to communicate even as the lights inexorably dim.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.

Cellphone communication had ceased; teenagers, their vocal chords atrophied by years of texting, struggled vainly to communicate, staggering around town, making zombie-like "Aaarghh, aarghh" sounds, reduced finally to scrawling desperate notes to their parents: "I hate you".

Though set in the 2050s, the novel has its roots in Ireland's early-21st century apocalypse: "I think it reverberates off the lurid and desperate tone or notes that played in actual Irish cities at that time," Barry says now. "Whenever you set a story in the future, it's always a kind of projection on the present moment".

That's a striking image of broken trust, and in the way Clarkson delivers it, her voice leaping to desperate high notes before finally breaking into a wounded growl, the emotion becomes immediate.

Politico takes this "going to the local media" phenomenon and casts a lot of weird aspersions on it (It's "unusually aggressive!" It's "desperate!") before noting something very obvious: It's the "local press" where "far more people who Obama wants to target get their news".

A federal judge in the first jury trial involving the bone drug Fosamax declared a mistrial on Friday after jurors started sending him desperate hand-scrawled notes saying they were deadlocked over a verdict.