*The state of being 'installed' at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation.
"Knowing that you're about to die is kind of hard, the desperation you feel, the fear, you lose hope, thinking about your family outside, thinking there's nothing you can do to get yourself out and it's very hard".
Everyone is working hard, but desperation has replaced fortitude.
Somehow, through occasional carelessness, lapses in concentration or because bowlers are trying harder in their desperation to take his wicket, he has managed to avoid converting well-crafted fifties into hundreds.
Hard-living and desperation are typically the topics when country and punk collide, and Loveless' five-piece backing band, which used to include her father until she fired him, supports the storyteller/guitarist with minimum fuss and devil-may-care adjustments.
If you consider yourself an environmentalist (as I do), it's hard not to feel desperation if not outright despair as political cowardice, ignorance, and corporate collusion seem to thwart any attempt to make the system-wide changes necessary to avert environmental catastrophe.
You don't feel the hard sell, the wanton desperation of other labels.
It's not hard to detect the desperation in these shrill outbursts – and with good reason.
So he came back to Die Hard not out of desperation but almost as a (coincidental) victory lap.
