Sentence examples for desperate wishing from inspiring English sources

Desperate wishing aside, I cannot see one".

"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.

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

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

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.

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?

Well, Babe has just shot her husband, Meg is fresh from the loony bin, and poor Lenny celebrates her 30th birthday alone in the kitchen by sticking a candle in a cookie and making wish after desperate wish.

On a stormy night 150 years ago, an escaped slave girl, surrounded by an ever-tightening circle of barking dogs and murderous slave owners, had placed her hands on the tree and made a desperate wish.