Sentence examples for desperation right from inspiring English sources

When I first sat down with Jack and Peggy to talk about retirement, I noticed a sense of desperation right away.

If people stayed in the business, fucking without condoms during the AIDS epidemic, it must have been out of desperation, right?

It seems like the by-product of left-leaning desperation or right-leaning triumphalism.

Although Pakistanis between them own perhaps 9m televisions, 3m VCRs and 500,000 satellite dishes which all require a licence government inspectors fail to persuade even 1m of them to pay up, generating a measly 240m Pakistani rupees ($4.8m) or so of revenue each year.In desperation, the right-wing government of Nawaz Sharif put licence collection out to public tender this year.

And desperation is the right word.

"I don't think desperation is the right word for it," he said.

"Miss Garrett has the proper skepticism and the right desperation for the role," wrote Bosley Crowther in The New York Times.

As Ray Eddy, a single mother of two living in a trailer in Upstate New York, Leo delivers a tough, utterly mesmerizing performance as a woman whose desperation to do right by her kids sends her on a journey all the more astonishing for being so believable.

Stephen Kearney's team had already worked the ball out to the left and, thanks to a long, rangy pass from brilliant hooker Isaac Luke, they switched it in desperation to the right.

It's desperation time," Kings right wing Justin Williams said.

Despite a lack of explaining on Bendis' side, this issue contains great character development, a feeling of desperation, and jumps right into the action -- not to mention some great art and a cliffhanger that will keep you coming back for more.