Sentence examples for even desperate from inspiring English sources

Right now, our gift shopping is becoming manic, even desperate.

But it can embody one's fervent, even desperate, hopes.

It's a deceptively innocent, maybe even desperate, ritual.

Some patients facing death take drastic, or even desperate measures in order to prolong their lives.

Even Desperate Housewives is beginning to feel like they're toying with us.

They are bullied at school, rejected by their families, and consigned to marginal — even desperate — lives.

Resurrecting the debate on gay marriage now risks looking like a cynical, even desperate, move.

Erick, whose lack of resources makes him vulnerable, even desperate, becomes increasingly suspicious of Ray's motives.

This is not a matter of contempt so much as of sober and even desperate calculation.

He was eager, even desperate, for some change that he could not quite explain.

But don't such people run the risk of seeming annoyingly persistent or even desperate?