Desperate relatives pray together in Surabaya's airport, as news of the discovery of debris and bodies filters through.
But as his impoverished family knelt round his bed in their cabin in the dust of Oklahoma, praying a desperate prayer to the Lord, he saw his father's face fade into the countenance of Jesus.
I was a desperate onlooker hoping and praying for a miracle.
In the run up to a 48-hour national strike we meet teenage anarchists who are desperate for police blood, communists praying for revolution, and civil servants struggling to understand what has happened to their country.
And of course, we have plentiful clusters of deeply red conservatives galore in those regions where colleges and educations don't prevail, culture consists of beer pong and tailgating, and people still pack, blind and desperate, into their area megachurches, praying for someone to tell them it's OK to go back to sleep.
As some people simply clung to life, others trailed the wards in a desperate search for their relatives, praying they were not among the unidentified corpses being piled into mass graves.
Others showcase the baffled, helpless family of Robles – his wife Margara, his daughter Marguerite, and his son Francisco – in desperate need of financial assistance while still praying for Robles' return.
It's a move made not in surrender, but in desperate hope: GOP elites pray that for all his populist posturing, Trump is really just a more flamboyant version of the Grand Old Play.
Sumpter was desperate to avoid foreclosure and did everything she could to avoid it including praying, hustling and journaling before she stumbled onto entrepreneur coaching.
Sumpter was desperate to avoid foreclosure and did everything she could to avoid it including praying, hustling, and journaling before she stumbled onto entrepreneur coaching.
