Sentence examples for heightened desperation from inspiring English sources

In the last section the song climaxes with an octave raise, which not only emphasizes the protagonist's heightened desperation, but her determination to be with her lover.

The intensification had come through an accumulation of pinpoint gestures: a holding back of the tempo here, a quickening of the pulse there, an increasing weight given to the bass lines in the orchestra, a heightened desperation in the vocal solos.

For all the gains Egyptians have made in the last year, the Feb. 2011 revolution has unleashed many of the country's longstanding underlying tensions — sectarianism, heightened economic desperation and a growing xenophobia that results in harassment.

This didn't so much diminish expectations as heighten desperation among the passengers who, bearing cameras and binoculars, craved any kind of sighting.

Sandra very often repeats herself as she explains her plight over and over to her sometimes sympathetic, sometimes hostile coworkers, but rather than grating, the repetition of dialogue serves to heighten her desperation.

Watching Jasmine, we immediately sense her anger and desperation, heightened by the chemically enhanced mood swings, which become more pronounced as the story unfolds.

Annie's desperation is heightened.

During the final verse, Burke's anger and desperation is shown to be heightened, as she sings to her herself in the mirror and places more emphasis on her movement.

Given that they're dealing with change in sleeping pattern, heightened anxiety, a propensity to respond emotionally and a desperation to be recognised by peers it is unsurprising that teens appear to be moody and disagreeable – it actually seems like they might be coping rather well.

He said that his "desperation at not seeing my children was further heightened" when a shared parenting debate in Parliament was attended by just four MPs - Haries carried out the offence the next day.

There is desperation in all this too, but it is the now-familiar desperation of the self-indulgently confessional: Nan Goldin without the brilliant composition, the heightened colour or the underlying poetic sadness.