Sentence examples for note of desperation from inspiring English sources

It was a note of desperation.

Elvis is still impassioned, but now there's a note of desperation, something haunted.

Rotting fish, pungent cheese, lots of dirt, and a note of desperation in a petroleum base.

Many comments from readers with a negative outlook described dire circumstances, and more than a few sounded a note of desperation: Seven people used to do my job.

It also suggests a note of desperation among the nomenklatura, who know that their own privileged positions depend on the survival of the Kim dynasty.

Yet Roma had their own chances and there was a note of desperation to that late flurry from a City team, once again, searching for the answers.

In "How to Read and Why" (published in 2000), Harold Bloom strikes a note of apocalyptic desperation.

That's a challenge with Ms. Turnbull's strained, actressy performance, which strikes a note of shrill desperation from the moment she arrives at the Beacon Hill town house.

Mr. Barrile plays a needy sex addict without a note of actor desperation, and Will's compulsive desires (he admits to the others that one lust object was actually a tree) prompt some of the most uninhibited laughter.

Mr. Giamatti, best known for his film and television work (his breakthrough as a wine snob reeling from crisis to crisis in "Sideways," his Emmy-winning performance as the second president in "John Adams") occasionally brings a note of antic desperation to the role, which adds some fresh piquancy to his interpretation.

Although the room starts to feel like a pressure cooker at times, and the staff occasionally betrays a note of mild desperation (there's barely anywhere for them to stand), for the most part, they keep it together, because, as one lovely waitress said, "There's no crying in baseball".