Sentence examples for my desperation from inspiring English sources
MY desperation for good tomato flavor in the winter (documented here a few weeks ago in a column about sun-dried tomatoes) led me a year or two ago to try roasting canned tomatoes.
"My desperation filled the house," he writes.
My desperation is noisy, voluble, and visible.
Such was my desperation to unearth something – anything!
But he smelled my desperation and said little.
I assume that lack of personal interest was mutual, as they never noticed my track marks and generally ignored my obvious desperation.
I'm ashamed to say that, in my abject desperation to fit in, I didn't chuck my fist in the face of those who thought it was cool to nickname the only black guy in our year "token".
The 'but' being a clear acknowledgement of my rank desperation.
Probably the punchiness reflected my increasing desperation, just as the amplitude of "No More Maybe" reflects, I think, a writer rediscovering the spaciousness of fiction.
How am I going to explain this to future generations when they look back and ask how I could have been punished for my own desperation?
