Sentence examples for desperately failing from inspiring English sources

All four family members give wonderful performances, especially Daniels as the monstrous novelist, desperately failing and flailing in confusion and fear.

Tennessee was granted $501 million (cash money!) from the Race to the Top funds in 2010, allowing the state to turn around some of its desperately failing schools.

Nevertheless, this underpants gnome will soldier on as a spoiler, potentially weakening Mitt Romney's efforts by emboldening the right flank against the moderate frontrunner who's awkwardly struggling and desperately failing to appear more right-wing.

I might attend an incident that will change my life and my family's Christmas forever, by entering flood water, trying desperately but failing to save a man's life.

"We are failing desperately to prevent the most preventable conditions".

Industrious souls to my left and right are trying desperately (and largely failing) to upload pictures.

Early on, we witness the Man pleading with his wife not to take her own life in the face of the futility of existence on a dying planet, desperately trying, and failing, to make her stay.

Single implies that you are actively, desperately looking and failing, when it could actually mean so many things.

When it became clear that the Raptor enterprises were failing, Enron desperately restructured them, first at the end of 2000 and again three months later.

Dwan's spokesman said that he had donated £3.5m "directly or indirectly" to his academy empire, which included 11 failing schools desperately in need of his resources.

At 72, Mrs. Cohen said she was worried about paying for her diabetes drugs and the many medicines that her husband, Leonard, desperately needs for a failing heart and emphysema.