What he rather desperately believes, he said, is that "a conversation has to begin" on how Orthodox Jews — including the rabbinate — and non-Orthodox Jews can agree "to trust each other" despite the disputes.
She would talk to herself, trying desperately to believe she was at peace with the couch.
I have heard the same lie a hundred times in this region — but it is delivered with such goodwill and charm that I want desperately to believe it.
Like the cloud of smoke hovering over the winter sky in Athens, we want desperately to believe the situation is not permanent.
I wanted so desperately to believe them, but Satan was still pulling at me, telling me I would never be clean enough for anyone.
"Everyone wants so desperately to believe he's Hitler 2.0, and their warped image of him is clearly looming large at the forefront of their minds – so much so that they can't help but attach the worst possible connotation to even vague, offhand quips like these," said a 29-year-old Hispanic attorney from Florida, referring to his second amendment comments.
In what she describes as a "constant see-saw from one state to another", she oscillated between "desperately, desperately" wanting to believe the story he had told her about himself, and wondering whether he had completely deceived her about a fundamental part of his life.
It desperately tried everything and believed in nothing.
The Good Place, which was renewed for a second season just yesterday, doesn't praise itself for being brave enough to have a white woman fall in love with an African man, or for depicting a British Pakistani woman try desperately to get her believed soulmate to talk to her.
Both groups, he believes, desperately want to elect Al Gore president.
