Sentence examples for level of desperate from inspiring English sources

Instead, I muttered, "lions and leopards," and immediately felt as though I'd sunk to the level of desperate tourist paying big bucks for the Big Five.

At the same time, the intrinsic quality of the coinage had sunk to a level of desperate confusion, seen most plainly under Alexius I Comnenus (1081 1118), whose "gold" was sometimes no more than billon or even bronze.

We were accused of naivety for our initial portrayal of Katine, relying perhaps too heavily on an appeal to readers based on the strength of human stories of suffering rather than explaining the economic and political circumstances that have brought the village to its present level of desperate poverty.

Pat M. has directed Gately to tell applicants this, and then if they do actually pet the dogs — two hideous white golden retrievers with suppurating skin afflictions, plus one has grand-mal epilepsy — it'll betray a level of desperate willingness that Pat says is just about all she goes by, deciding.

Filmed in "Miami Vice" colors and with a "Desperate Housewives" level of credibility, the movie has a touching earnestness that blocks our impulse to laugh.

Colombians are desperate about the level of violence.

Interviews with doctors, patients and ethicists suggest that the culture of bribery has infected every level of the system, sometimes leaving patients desperate.

Now, seven years after the launch of that campaign, designed to improve player and spectator behaviour at the grassroots level of the game, the FA is desperate to clamp down on what it sees as a growing problem.

Potiphar's wife, on the other hand, is experiencing addiction to Joseph, indicative of increased levels of dopamine that stimulate the reward pathway and create a sense of desperate need.

Looking at Palin's current level of high negative poll numbers, they see her as a potential gift from Saint Jude, the patron saint of desperate causes.

Mr Miliband said the government was wrong to focus on total expenditure in Europe rather than where the money was spent since the constituent parts of the EU budget - particularly the level of spending on agriculture - were in "desperate need" of reform.