Sentence examples for desperate to please from inspiring English sources

I've never been desperate to please my father".

You are awkward and bewildered, desperate to please.

Certain dancers fade into the background, while others, desperate to please, pour it on too thick.

Now we're up to 2007, and British designers seem desperate to please.

Gorgeous, yes, but cowed by anxiousness and obviously desperate to please.

The pontiff arrives after heavy lobbying by Gordon Brown, who was desperate to please Catholic voters.

In her book, she writes about the crippling effect of her desperate need to please people: her husband, her colleagues, etc.

But that would be to forget the conditions under which her humor was forged in the first place: out of a displaced girl's desperate need to please.

In the opening scene McKellen, with a jaunty corduroy cap from which the label uneasily protrudes, perfectly captures Spooner's chattering anxiety and desperate desire to please.

Yolanda Kettle as Clarissa also has the right air of closeted guilt, and Paul Hickey as her partner actually makes one laugh by his desperate desire to please.

Sweetness is not this gifted comedian's strong suit, and in its place Mr. Kattan offers a desperate eagerness to please, a far less charming quality.