Sentence examples for desperate question from inspiring English sources

I couldn't even answer my most desperate question: If I had a friend who had guns in his home and a history of suicide attempts, was there anything I could do that would help?

Barbara Cartland contributed a piece to a series on Freud's desperate question,"What is it that Women Want?" Her copy arrived promptly in a pink, scented folder tied in a ribbon, like love letters.

Her "Am I under arrest?" was not only a genuinely desperate question -- that was also an effective bit of theater that got Hank to back off his self-serving White Knight routine.

For three minutes, the couple prodded at meat for the cameras, ignoring the cascade of ever-more desperate questions.

Meanwhile the desperate questions a son asks his mother in "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" could have been a solicitor taking a deposition.

It was a defining tension: the very conceptual tools with which he pursued life's most desperate questions threatened to keep him forever at a distance from the connections he struggled to make.

The ostentatious announcements of leave-taking ("I'm #digitaldetoxing for a few days, so you won't see any tweets from me!" "Leaving Facebook for a while to be in the world!") are inevitably followed by vainglorious returns, excited exclamations having turned into desperate questions ("Sorry to be away from Twitter. #Digitaldetox for three WHOLE days. Miss me?" "Back online. What did I miss?").

"Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?/ And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?/ And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?/ And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?" Part 1 ends with these apparently rhetorical and somehow desperate questions.

Find Jackie's useful presentation on teaching primary music as a non-specialist dealing with such desperate questions as: "But I'm not musical, how can I teach music?" There are lots of generous music teachers who like nothing better than to share if you know where to look: I need some help to teach music is a handy guide to online inspiration.

Again and again he was asking the same desperate questions: "Why is our president doing this to us?

Who are they?!? How should I ever trust anybody again?" his desperate questions were.