Sentence examples for desperate to teach from inspiring English sources

She was desperate to teach us the concept of weight, and I guess we just weren't getting it.

For some of us, the first memories of maleness are of being overpowered, slammed against walls, grabbed by the shirt by angry fathers and uncles, by men desperate to teach us how to be strong, how to handle ourselves.

Wink has the domineering behavior of a seemingly harsh and judgmental patriarch, but he knows his own mortality and is desperate to teach Hushpuppy how to survive when he is no longer around.

Emily's not too keen on Mr. Fitz (to her) lending a hand considering she's seen his underwear, but she's pretty desperate -- and he's desperate to teach -- so she agrees.

I was hired a week before school by a desperate principal/nun to teach all subjects -- math, science, socail studies, reading, language arts and religion -- in the self-contained sixth grade class in a Title I (read: poor) school in the Bronx.

In fact, I wasn't even a teacher; I was eighteen years old, only in my second year of university, but the school had been desperate for someone to teach tenth-grade math.

This behaviour is supported by Roen, Scourfield and McDermott [ 33] who found suicide attempt as a cry for connection, while Tam and colleagues [ 34] found that most teenagers do not attempt suicide to harm them-selves but want to make people around them understand how desperate they are, or want to teach others a lesson.

I respected him as I was desperate for experience, and he was happy to teach me stuff, taking me on shoots and expanding my technical knowledge.

It was so desperate for help that it petitioned Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to send men to teach their children.

Mr. Rahmatullah said the Taliban were in fairly desperate need of agricultural help to supply farmers who once planted opium and to teach them to grow other crops.

Desperate for new ways to connect with consumers, an increasing array of industries and organizations are paying Disney to teach them how to become, well, more like Disney.