Sentence examples for frantic hope from inspiring English sources

Anna hasn't seen Miles for a couple of decades, but her e-mail address was in his mobile phone, so Genevieve has contacted her in the frantic hope she might talk Miles into leaving.

She in fact held back for many years, and the period of 1842 48 shows Balzac continuing and even intensifying his literary activity in the frantic hope of winning her, though he had to contend with increasing ill health.

Told in lucid, uncluttered prose, the description of the effect of this correspondence on both parties is genuinely chilling: aching, frantic hope on Steven's part, as he scrabbles to find clues in the killer's laconic responses, and, for Avery, gloating relish when he realises that the letter-writer is a child.

During the strain, anxiety, and insomniac misery of the three-week search, Mrs. Campos was fierce and frantic with hope, holding prayer vigils at St. Joseph's Church.

Frantic executives hoped for miracles and publicly begged for money.

I tried it several times in the course of this frantic film, hoping to land inside a calm sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, but no dice.

They make frantic phone calls, hoping their families are all right as their homeland, Haiti, goes through another wave of terror.

The evidence suggests that in his soul he's a moderate pragmatist, but he has flip-flopped like a frantic fish in hopes of hiding his reasonableness.

But after a day of increasingly frantic negotiations, the hopes of the vast majority of UN members were dashed at the last moment by opposition from both the Americans and the Russians, who complained that there was not enough time left to "clarify and resolve" a small number of issues.

With places getting filled in record time, and pressure from university management to get bums on seats in order to balance the books, the pressure was on admissions tutors to deal with thousands of frantic prospective students hoping to secure a university place.

She alights on exact and hard-working adjectives as in: "The frantic, primitive desperation of hope".