Both Jack Shepherd's weak husband and Kika Markham's embittered wife are desperately affecting.
So, too, is Emma Donoghue's desperately affecting seventh novel, Room (Picador, £12.99).
The affected nations desperately need supplies, health-care workers and a lifeline to the outside world.
"It would risk a confused and disjointed approach at a time when people and businesses affected by flooding desperately need more investment," said Ross Murray, CLA president.
The transport secretary, Chris Grayling, said he "felt desperately sorry" for those residents affected, who he said would be "treated with fairness, compassion and respect".
The moves by some American states to quarantine returning health workers is causing aid agencies like the Red Cross real concern, because they fear it could deter future volunteers, who are desperately needed in the Ebola affected countries.
I wondered, almost desperately, if his blindness could have affected his taste buds.
Other aspects of daily functioning could be affected, he says, adding, "we desperately need more research on the effects that marijuana has on the brain".
He added: "We desperately need support – millions of people have been affected by Cecil's death – and by the plight of lions in general – and imagine they are powerless at preventing further lion decline".
VICE News correspondent Seb Walker met with those most affected by the executive order — the desperately poor.
