Sentence examples for desperately affecting from inspiring English sources

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).

We all love Disco Boy and his herculanean efforts to entertain the truckers so deeply and desperately affected by the dreaded Operation Stack.

"The Danish Girl" is at its most affecting in the film's second half, when Gerda and Lili seek desperately for guidance from the medical profession and come up at first against uncomprehending dead ends.

Characterizing the genetic factors affecting susceptibility to chronic pain could lead to novel treatment or prevention strategies, which are desperately needed.

Egypt would desperately like to close that door again, I'm sure, because they are very worried about contagion from Hamas affecting the Islamist movement inside Egypt.

"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.

Such personhood bills could even affect women who desperately want to have a baby -- but are having trouble.

I wondered, almost desperately, if his blindness could have affected his taste buds.