Sentence examples for desperate thoughts from inspiring English sources

The night is a time of unquiet voices; of desperate thoughts; of monsters.

Her anguish poured out and the familiar, desperate thoughts surrounding a suicide were aired.

He avoided bedrooms with balconies: "I've no desire to quit the world, but thoughts, desperate thoughts come into the head".

Seeing these dark and desperate thoughts spliced between cheery ads for banks and beer should create a genuinely subversive effect, but the project's trajectory was not without its own frustrations.

On Saturday, 34-year-old Tia Coleman, who lost her three young children and husband in the tragedy, as well as her father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew and uncle, recalled the moments just before the boat's sinking and the desperate thoughts that flooded her mind as she struggled to survive. .

As one Eliot scholar put it, The Waste Land is "a great nihilistic text that confirms every desperate thought you have had about the world", but it nevertheless ends on a mystical note of great stillness and hope.

Although most of "Mauve" makes reasonable connections and sustainable claims for Perkin's contribution to science, the book's nuttiest and most desperate thought progression comes with a thumbnail sketch of the DuPont chemical company, which announced in 1981 that it was getting out of the dye business.

What will be of even greater concern to Andy Murray and his team than the heavy defeat he suffered against Rafael Nadal in their Wimbledon quarter-final is the desperate thought that Nadal is a contemporary and, fitness permitting, is going to be out of the British No1's reach for the rest of his career.

The Android gambit was a desperate thought, but you have to give the company points for outside-the-platform thinking.

The New Yorker, July 16, 1949 P. 11 A psychiatrist's wife began thinking all kinds of desperate Oedipean thoughts last week when her four-year-old son suddenly asked her to marry him.

I've turned into a hater I put up a false bravado But Marshall is not an egomaniac, that's not his motto He's not a desperado, he's desperate His thoughts are bottled.