Sentence examples for desperation behind from inspiring English sources

The tenor Paul Appleby, as Joe, caught the desperation behind the character's drunken bravado.

Some have glitches and a hurried quality that betray the desperation behind the inspiration.

Dom, a decent guy who can see the desperation behind Brent's bluster, is the film's Tim.

Fans of the group will be agog, and happily deafened; the less devoted may sense a desperation behind the dazzle.

Critics praised Mo'Nique's ability to evoke the ignorance and desperation behind the inhuman actions of her character.

An anonymous holiday card circulating on the Internet reflects the sense of desperation behind a lot of the yearning.

His money vanished and desperation lay behind the attempted comeback, which ended in disaster.

In sparsely populated Namibia, Theroux finds poverty and desperation lurking behind the pretty, German-­flavored German-­flavoredmund, and joins a tatteresortmnant of the Ju/'hoanSwakopmundient tribe of hunter-ganderers who have "gone from a fleet-footed bush-­dwelling people who chased down game to sedentary town-dwellers plagued by drunkenness and hunger".

Papik describes seeing Vagner, the zoo keeper, watching in desperation from behind the fence, where he had been stopped from entering the zoo in case he tried to sabotage the slaughter of his beloved animals which he had brought to the zoo just a few years before on a long journey from Kenya.

The Chamber's political director, Rob Engstrom, responded in kind to Perdue in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "In the final days of the primary and in his latest sign of desperation, David Perdue is falling behind in the polls and has chosen to lie about the Chamber's position on immigration.

The characters' desperation, scarily evident behind the comic turns in Joe Mantello's knife-sharp production, seems so familiar.