Sentence examples for desperate wish from inspiring English sources

My first thought, more like a desperate wish, was that most snake bites carry no venom.

Last year a 20-member panel under the ministry produced a desperate wish list to reduce what it calls "deterrents" to marriage and child rearing.

It is a remarkable testimony not so much to his eloquence as to their desperate wish for peace that no less than 25 communes answered his call.

Amélie senses Fubuki's desperate wish to be married -- achieving a status that would free her from the tyranny of the company but confine her in a different sphere.

But an even more wrenching example of his groping in the dark is his desperate wish for the Depression to end.

But isn't that one of the reasons why the Sunday Express, in its desperate wish to be populist, now returns such comparatively poor circulation figures?

Desperate wishing aside, I cannot see one".

The wives and mothers who were nursing other complaints by now, of insufficient sleep and stalled careers — complaints that to Tomasina were desperate wishes.

"Desperate wishing aside, I cannot see one".Bruised by its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and concentrating on the threat of religious extremism, the West is often blind to the many forms of Islam practised in the Middle East.

And so on, and so on, until, one day, you glance up from your device, depleted and desperate, wishing only to quiet, contain, or excise the whole debacle like a cancer.

Kind regards and best desperate wishes from me,  CHRISTINA LEDANG Montreal, QC.