Sentence examples for desperately small from inspiring English sources

"The difficulty is that practically no actors actually say what they get either because it's such a grossly huge amount of money they know it's miles more than the person they're talking to or it's such a humble and desperately small thing you daren't say," said Lumley.

"The Honeymooners" caught Gleason in the sweet spot of a character who is at once too big and desperately small; that's where his strange fate intersects that of Orson Welles, whose sweet spot was the same one, and which, sadly, he hit only intermittently (of course, that's largely the industry's fault).

The pool of candidates is desperately small but is expected to increase as numbers of graduates increase.

They helped Chile build a robust market, and are beginning to do the same in Poland.It took time to recognise that countries emerging from communism desperately need small and medium-sized businesses.

Widely considered to be Wells's most perfectly-formed novel, this comic idyll is the story of a henpecked, unsuccessful, desperately frustrated small shopkeeper who bungles but survives a suicide-and-arson attempt, and becomes master of his fate under another identity.

I love how you swing babies up onto hips and prop them on checkout counters or grocery carts or changing tables in desperately-too-small bathroom stalls.

During the Blitz, while others were exercised by more rational emotions of fear or anger, Betjeman confides of his ministry colleague: "I used to wish desperately for a small wound from a bomb so that she would minister to me".

Whether it's celebrity chefs or fledgling entrepreneurs desperately fanning the small business flame in the nooks and crannies across my city.

The next morning, she was the only person I would have wanted to see -- dependable, replaying our night, desperately thirsty, resolving small problems, though we felt like we were hit by trucks.

Chrysler desperately needs Fiat's small cars and fuel-efficient engines to balance an aging lineup of S.U.V.'s.

Housing and port and health facilities are desperately needed in the small, northern part of the island that is still judged safe.