Sentence examples for desperately pursuing from inspiring English sources

Two of them show Mr. Agee desperately pursuing doughnuts, as he is egged on by the Devil (played by him).

But in the absence of religious fervour, class war or complete economic meltdown to distract us, a better way to deal with boredom than desperately pursuing excitement might be to embrace it.

It was out of this feverish atmosphere – made all the more hectic by the fact that Polidori was clumsily in love with Mary while Claire was desperately pursuing Byron – that Frankenstein was conceived.

But now, like a suitor seeking out a lover he spurned, Mr. Bush is desperately pursuing Mr. Fox for Mexico's crucial vote on the United Nations Security Council in favor of a resolution implicitly authorizing an American-led attack on Iraq.

The upshot of being denied these happy chemical doses as a child can be that the person in question grows up to be a man-baby, desperately pursuing them via other means.

The upshot of being denied these happy chemical doses as a child can be that the person in question grows up to be a man-baby desperately pursuing them via other means.

As Jimmy, besieged by paranoia and guilt, desperately pursues answers, you half expect the movie to take a turn into horror, but it remains on its circular track inside his tormented mind.

However, the round-up has had enough of Matthew Dunn's jibber-jabber in the Daily Express, which desperately pursues a tenuous and ill-conceived comparison between England and the A-Team that starts badly and gets worse.

With her life endangered and her age rapidly increasing, Gothel desperately pursues Rapunzel and Flynn.

A result has been the cynicism and fatigue of progressive voters who feel that the leadership has let them down on reversing staggering economic inequity, protecting social programs and pursuing desperately needed financial reform.

"Everyone is desperately trying to pursue that lifeboat," one analyst told me.