I beg to differ: we make desperately grateful straight men for Donald Trump.
Daniel Day-Lewis insists on remaining in character during production, asking both cast and crew to avoid eye-contact at all times, in case he sees it as invitation to wander over and make desperately awkward smalltalk.
Yet she still easily overwhelms Maxim Mironov's Ramiro, played as a ridiculous, awkward figure, a leading contender for upper-class twit of the year, who acts unconvincingly and makes desperately heavy weather of his arias.
How will we ever hope to make desperately needed progress in the breast cancer crisis when the mainstream breast cancer movement continues to push an outdated and scientifically debunked agenda?
And it wasn't until I woke up one morning and I could see that scene with multiple camera speeds and the shape of the almost ballet of dying, and then I knew that that was a film I wanted to make – desperately".
"We are the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life," says the prime minister, using his now favourite form of cant, but it is perfectly possible to be a working person, or an industrious person who through retirement, disability or bad luck no longer works, and be made desperately insecure by Cameron's policies.
Perhaps we've just gone through a few anomalously thoughtful weeks, or perhaps rational thought is making a desperately needed comeback.
In the last few minutes I kept making substitutions, desperately seeking to find someone else who was awake, making the Manhattan coach start yelling that I was stalling.
The government is making life desperately hard for millions of people because of pay cuts for workers, while the rich are given tax cuts".
By Michael Specter July 1, 2015 Perhaps the planet has just gone through a few anomalously thoughtful weeks, or perhaps rational thought is making a desperately needed comeback.
