Sentence examples for he desperately seeks from inspiring English sources

He desperately seeks some form of salvation.

He desperately seeks success for the Olympics in his country next year and the legitimacy the games will confer".

Brutalised and repressed, he desperately seeks acceptance as well as scapegoats in the company of loutish BNP-types.

Using an extraordinary sense of smell, he desperately seeks out a female 40 times his size and latches on to her.

Sir Alex Ferguson accuses big-spending Manchester City of ruining the transfer market as he desperately seeks to prevent the noisy neighbours sabotaging Manchester United's season.

The 68-year-old has had a rocky relationship with the West, and American officials are worried about his unpredictability as he desperately seeks to maintain his four-decade grip on power.

He desperately sought appointment as a salaried court artist like his contemporary Francisco Goya, but his petitions to the king were rejected.

Southgate will have learned plenty from the sidelines before he finally felt compelled to turn to a familiar face as he desperately sought to exert some authority on a rather fraught occasion.

"His mother brutally abused him, both physically and emotionally, and so damaged (him) that he desperately sought the attention and approval of an older male, someone who could replace the father he never knew," Lisak wrote in a report on Williams.

She mistakes his lack of purpose for sensitivity and he too desperately seeks her approval, despite himself.

In fact, nothing should be done to confer on him the international status he so desperately seeks.