Sentence examples for frantic determination from inspiring English sources
Through these characters' frantic determination to connect and to communicate, Lodge reveals the impossibility of communication.
Lloyd squeezed one breast after the other with frantic determination and succeeded in getting a couple of drops of miserable-looking milk out.
This is, of course, the novelist's task as well, and Obermann, in his increasingly frantic determination to bend the evidence to his desires, displays all the faults of the bad novelist.
The Times's Debra Craine detected an "air of bored disinterest" in Acosta's first appearance on stage, but was pleased to see his performance take on a "frantic, passionate determination" when Rudolf meets his ill-fated mistress, Mary.
At the end, Texas A&M prevailed, 76-70, at Conseco Fieldhouse, winning its first national title in a game that will be remembered for its frantic and mesmerizing determination.
Watergate had brought down Nixon, Gerald Ford was interim president and, given Brown's public political endorsement, it's not too much of a stretch to see this call for black self-determination as a frantic attempt to distance himself from the scandal.
Recognize the need for patient determination as opposed to frantic desperation.
In the Pushpa Nagar slum, the arrival of the first tanker for two days prompted a frantic scramble, with men jostling women and children in their determination to get to the precious liquid first.
Frantic markets were reassured, at least at first, of the politicians' determination not to allow the crash of 2008 to bring the global financial system grinding to a halt.
But a fixed determination is not to be baffled by disappointment; nor will I allow that to be a frantic attempt, which was one of the calmest acts of reason.
