Sentence examples for face of desperation from inspiring English sources

This face of desperation is the face of the 19th century avant garde, risking and even courting sickness with drink and drugs.

/ A newly coined portmanteau of "shop" [archaic] and "optimistic," meaning to keep retail positivism in the face of desperation, e.g.,'For Christmas I got nada, but I'm shoptimistic about birthday Prada.'You gotta have faith.

That is the face of desperation, just like last year's dot-com start-up parties, each seemingly louder and costlier than the last, the ostentatious face of baseless optimism.

"After Katrina, we all made a great shift, born in the face of desperation.

When the border reopened, so too did the steady flow of escaping Venezuelans, wearing faces of desperation as they crossed the International Simon Bolivar bridge into Colombia.

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.

Her stricken face reminded me of another look of desperation back in 1962, although Early Wynn was not as pretty as Christine Glavine, I can assure you of that.

A small, balding man jiggled the handle helplessly, a look of desperation on his face.

Portman pauses, gulps, and a look of desperation crosses his face and he says, "Crap, Chris, you got me.

There's this look of desperation on so many of the faces.

"This is the best thing that could have happened," he says, though the look on his face is one of desperation rather than bliss.