In "Götterdämmerung," just concluded, Mr. Owens was a withered, petulant specter, barking desperate orders to a resentful son.
Savagery will naturally follow, offering Islamists the opportunity to capture the allegiance of a population that is desperate for order.
I often found myself holding the mammoth wine list, sinews straining, desperate to order, and wondering where the waiter could be.
It is that set price -- and, presumably, the food -- that has led to bidding wars by diners desperate to order from a menu that requires at least a year of high school French and a gastronomic dictionary (Caneton Rouennais ?a Presse, par example).
Both consoles have a handful of mid-tier titles worth a go if you're completely desperate – The Order: 1886 (fantastic facial hair) and Ryse: Son of Rome (shiny shields and swords) certainly look good while playing entirely ordinarily, on PS4 and Xbone respectively.
And the subcontractors, the lowest on the ladder, are desperate for orders, compete brutally and cannot afford to upgrade their workshops.
In late February, a month after the removal of Ben Ali in Tunisia, a week after citizens in Egypt forced Hosni Mubarak to step down, and a day after a desperate Muammar Qaddafi ordered his Army, Air Force, and militias to shoot scores of protesters, I reached Ibrahim on his mobile phone, in the South of France.
To fail to do that, especially in the eyes of a child, desperate for moral order and a way out of war's chaos, is morally devastating.
A shortage of New York City apartments for sale is forcing real estate agents to take extreme, if not desperate, measures in order to conjure up listings.
Johnston is in the camp that believes if a woman is desperate enough to order drugs online and take them, there is no use withholding information.
