Sentence examples for expression of desperation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Clegg said that Labour's call for tactical voting was "the latest expression of desperation by a Labour Party which is on the ropes".

There is no question that many Gazans are suffering, and that the demonstrations are an expression of desperation; for years, the press has reported on electricity being restricted to a few hours a day, and of the imminent collapse of systems supplying water and sewerage.

In the photo, a man passes off a baby through a hole in the barbed wire, his face wearing an expression of desperation, not knowing what will happen to him or his child next.

Some scholars have emphasized the political nature of these acts, not merely reducible to an expression of desperation [ 31].

Some of them put on expressions of desperation.

With his tortured walk, in which every step is an effort, and expression of gentle desperation, Billy is Inishmaan incarnate, a place where life is a strenuous, tedious, hope-busting chore that turns people into small-time monsters.

It was a manifestation of desperation and forlorn hope.

Fanboyism is an expression of the intellectual desperation we all feel resulting from the trivial trappings of internet culture.

I'd watch as their expression of disappointment turned to desperation, before eventually becoming excited relief which coincided with a rushed goodbye.

In between those two extremes lies the expression of all the fear, hope, joy, desperation, enlightenment and heartache of living with people who are supposed to love you.

Day of Desperation, January 23 , 1991