The more Cashman spoke, the more it sounded as if the Yankees were desperately praying that the Orlando Hernández of 2004 could be the El Duque of 1998.
Bibi, the woman at the heart of Pakistan's blasphemy furore – which triggered the murder of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer last week – is in jail, desperately praying that she won't be executed.
The attraction you're looking for is the place where the proprietors sit on the floor of their empty living room, surrounded by the dust-shadows of their pawned furniture, desperately praying for the only thing that will make the Museum of the History of Piano Wax profitable: cold, heavy and sustained precipitation.
"Everyone connected with the football club is just desperately praying that everything goes well," Locke told BBC Radio Scotland.
Everyone wanted to bring him home, to give Kate the happy ending she desperately prayed for.
Chainz' debut album is set to be released August 14 through Def Jam Records, but the world is desperately praying for a G.O.O.D. Music affiliation as well.
Policy debates are one thing, but in the villages of Malawi and Ethiopia there are mothers who live on a fine line between life and death and who are desperately praying for their own little miracles.
The issue of "crazy" also led Peter Quinn to question Saul Berenson and lose his faith in the CIA, and left Dana so desperately praying for life in the sun-filled garage, arms outstretched on the same praying mat that her father had stowed away from his family as he grappled with his own demons.
No, you got cleaned up and put to bed and left to wallow in your own snuffly misery with a popsicle while your parents dealt with the rest of it, desperately praying to the Clorox gods that they would escape coming down with it themselves.
