Sentence examples for mock desperation from inspiring English sources

'Don't go!' Chander calls in mock desperation.

When I invented a reason to step out for some air, she requested in mock desperation, "Bring sandwiches".

"I know," Steadman says, adding, with mock desperation in his voice, "especially because you have had the good fortune to catch me on possibly the lowest day in my entire life".

Posada had hit the game-tying home run in the seventh, and there was Jeter, rubbing his hands up and down the catcher's jersey in admiration, if not in mock desperation.

The Sunday New York Times reviewer, Paul Gray, was reduced to pleading, in only partly mock desperation, "When is Jane Smiley going to quit gallivanting about and settle down with a solid, dependable, predictable novel?" The answer is probably never.

'Please, please, can't you do something?' " Marasco brings her palms to her cheeks in mock desperation.

In desperation you mocked the headliner, crooning a bit of R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" while you pretended to urinate: a reference to the infamous videotape that was said to depict him with an underage partner.

Yet even when the episode goes into decidedly lighter (and grosser) material, it's still committed to building Van as a character: Through Paper Boi's amused mocking, Van's creative desperation, and her ultimate last-ditch confession, we learn that Van is more than just Earn's baby's mama she is, in her own right, one of television's strongest, most interesting characters.

He raised the questions, and let Clemens's truculent features and defensive voice speak for him, the way Nixon's desperation and Clinton's mock anger did for them.

If either candidate had announced in his final weeks some grandiose initiative of the kind the pundits prescribe, we'd have mocked it as October-surprise gimmickry, a sign of desperation.

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