Sentence examples for desperate willingness from inspiring English sources

Pat M. has directed Gately to tell applicants this, and then if they do actually pet the dogs — two hideous white golden retrievers with suppurating skin afflictions, plus one has grand-mal epilepsy — it'll betray a level of desperate willingness that Pat says is just about all she goes by, deciding.

The customer, in these scenarios, might well seem to be a craven, masochistic figure, contemptible in his desperate willingness to be humiliated and kept in line all for the sake of a few small plates and a bottle of slightly filthy organic wine.

Yet the relative absence of a contemporary Shiite trend to messianic brinkmanship suggests that Ahmadinejad's recent emphasis on the mahdi may be interpreted more in terms of an attempt to summon Khomeini's legacy and Iran's revolutionary moment than as a desperate willingness to bring the nation to the edge of war.

The mixed signals coming from Spanish officials seemed to reflect an odd balancing act — trying to reap the advantages of sounding alarmed, but not so desperate that they signal a willingness to let European officials dictate harsh terms and conditions.

There has of course always been contamination on the edges of sport but never before have we seen the willingness of not just one desperate individual sportsman, but whole groups of them seeking to subvert the basis of the competition to which they were supposedly dedicated.

And yet, I've always found that something about the desperate subversion of the show, its characters' willingness to humiliate themselves and one another and occasionally engage in outright sociopathy that has lent itself to getting stoned.

And yet, I've always found that something about the desperate subversion of the show, its characters' willingness to humiliate themselves and each other and occasionally engage in outright sociopathy that has lent itself to getting stoned.

And X10 has been most eager to take advantage of the new willingness of the major Web publishers, desperate for advertising revenue, to sell the sort of big and intrusive advertisements they would have shunned even six months ago.

You only have to note the content of the current Republican budget to recognize the Party's willingness to erode still further the desperate plight of the American poor.

In years past, Mr. Silver deployed his own well-worn playbook, famous for his gnomic utterances, his refusal to commit to positions in advance and his willingness to wait out governors until they were desperate for a deal, any deal.

dark money and detailed the candidate's own willingness to invest his personal wealth in a desperate final push.