But no one knew what that something else would be, and out of the change and the uncertainty and the wrongness of the leaders grew fear and desperation, and before long hunger stalked the streets.
Tom's fears and reservations come spilling out -- the added financial strain; the inevitable displacement of the man (me again!) by another... leading to diminished sexual relations, growing jealousy, fits of general desperation" -- before he neatly circles back around to his point about the terrifying nature of small choices.
Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando, which also seems always under construction, can leave a driver in desperation long before the long lines at Disney World.
Just 12 months on from butchering England by 27 points, Wales were rendered try-less, reduced to speculation and desperation well before the end.
In the end, I gave academia one more try, and because I had thought long and hard about non-academic paths, I approached the search with a lot more confidence and a lot less desperation than before.
A poor woman living in a trash-strewn slum feeds her seven children with one package of ramen noodles before, in desperation, selling her daughter to a pedophile.
The run included four 3-pointers, including Courtney Alexander's desperation toss just before the shot clock buzzer.
But five years earlier, before desperation drove him to that point, he'd been an executive at Lehman Brothers earning seven figures a year.
Frequently an individual with a long term addiction will have to hit 'rock bottom' (a personal low point in ones life marked by desperation and hopelessness) before they decide to quit.
I recognize it as the comedian's desperation, I've felt it before too.
