The phrase "great desperation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a feeling of extreme urgency or distress. For example: "In great desperation, he called out for help."
It just might prove successful from the very fact that there is great desperation to it.
What a relief, yet immediately afterward we wind up the clocks, reset the timers, and come charging out of the gates, once again working way too hard, sometimes with great desperation, to get somewhere that we imagine is far more important than here, and we want to get there as quickly as possible!
Perhaps the greatest desperation can be found on the islands, where you can find the most overcrowded camps.
Possibly, but perhaps, as with Bill Murray's slapstick turns in Lost in Translation, in the most obvious comedy lurks the greatest desperation.
Or was there a desperation in the giving, as if it had been prompted by his own failure when he'd been asked, in greater desperation, to reach a boy who didn't know right from wrong?
More hunger means greater desperation, and as we're seeing right now in the Middle East, greater desperation means greater instability and violence.
With every declaration of war, with every outpouring of violence, with every condemnation the international order declares against those it has ignored, these individuals feel an even greater desperation and need to join the only alternative they are offered for community.
It leaves that to the companies themselves, a process that belittles the integrity of the medical profession--which is supposed to be about healing--by sticking to the idea that "the few the options, the higher the price; the greater the desperation, the greater the suffering, the higher the price".
Then, without a scrap of courage, but with a great deal of desperation, I went softly in and stood beside her, touching her with my finger.
Although the doctor allowed the fight to continue Hagler must have realised it was only a matter of a round or two before the fight was stopped, and so into his final onslaught there was a great feeling of desperation.
To be physically restrained at a time of great personal disorder, desperation or distress is never going to be a good experience, and as such it requires a sensitive and thoughtful approach.
