Meanwhile Josh, who seems to be in his early 20's, has a desperation of his own.
But Patience, set both in the future and the recent past, has a desperation and a bleakness that is all its own.
"Without pissing on what I've done, I think I really did have a desperation – I felt that everything I did in film mattered.
So my ending is melancholic, but that's something I can catch in Beethoven's music at the end – it's not melancholy, for sure – but it has a desperation, a hysteria, in its desire to be free.
Hull City had a ravenous desperation about their approach, creating near chances that only needed a finishing touch or a better setup pass.
The action had a whiff of desperation, of the vertigo of failure, of contemplating the abyss from a serviceable ledge.
But the fact that they were willing to make such an offer to Lee, who is 32, had a whiff of desperation.
Canon Kenyon Wright, who chaired of the Scottish Constitutional Convention that paved the way for the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1997, said Mr Osborne's announcement had a "whiff of desperation about it".
She had a look of desperation, the kind that can't be manufactured.
The Seahawks got away with a close one in a squeaker against the Vikings that was only really won because Blair Walsh had a moment of desperation and missed a usually automatic 27-yard field goal.
