Along with thousands of other Upper East Side residents, each morning I try desperately to catch a cab to take me downtown.
Forward Colin-Kazim Richards sprung the Turkish midfielder Arda Turan with a long diagonal pass as Spector and DeMerit sprinted desperately to catch him.
Ms. Bond had teased her blond hair up, way up, and was trying desperately to catch her gold-beaded mesh top from drifting too far down.
In fact I spent quite some time last night attempting desperately to catch a wild Beedrill, which earned me some strange looks from passers-by.
His series "Fishing with John," which aired on IFC in 1991, is a reimagination (and a spiritual dismantling) of shows like "Bill Dance Outdoors" or "Fishing with Roland Martin," which featured a jocular man in a boat, trying desperately to catch fish.
"Most of the time, I fear that people will be talking about some book I haven't read or a speaker I missed and I'll be trapped, fake smile on my face, trying desperately to catch up".
Though the world of fashion is trying desperately to catch up to the digital age, retail is still fundamentally unchanged.
Get With the Times Nothing is sadder to watch than bureaucrats entrusted with an obsolete set of rules and regulations, trying desperately to catch up with economic, technological and political changes that make them fossilized relics of an ancient era.
Meanwhile – coming from the other end of the spectrum – TV broadcasters are trying desperately to catch up with UGC, even as the ex-Skype guys are trying to reproduce it online.
At 10 00 p.m. tonight, you'll be in a similar position trying desperately to catch up on the work you weren't able to do during a day packed with meetings and emails.
