Sentence examples for nothing desperate from inspiring English sources

There's nothing desperate about it".

Certainly there is nothing desperate about it for Mr Booker, mayor of Newark since 2006.

Tony as Desperate Dan: "I love sinking my teeth into a big slab of meat but there's nothing desperate about me".

Whether she's playing the ax murderer Josie in the hilarious 2006 dark comedy Big Nothing, desperate Australian actress Claire Shepard, who goes to extreme measures to get her green card from an immigration officer in 2009's Crossing Over, or Emily Hamilton, the kidnapped fiancee of Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack) in 2012's The Raven, Alice Eve knows how to take the good characters with the bad.

But if you really are eager, to say nothing of desperate, for a long-term partner you may have to contend with something else — the tyranny of unwitting compromise.

Speaking of Mr. Cooper, he deadpanned, "There's nothing more desperate than a career politician facing the prospect of having to get a real job for the first time in his life".

Here, again, the show relies on the audience's reflexive cynicism — on the sense that torture is just part of the intelligence-community playbook and, moreover, that it generates useful information at all, despite fervent arguments from many in the intelligence community that the practice produces nothing but desperate noise.

All acknowledged that nothing but desperate measures remained, which several were disposed to adopt, & but few were willing openly to disapprove.

In doing so, we must make a conscious choice, as often as necessary, to resist the temptation to compare, to complain or lay all blame squarely at the feet of the 'other' – whether our parents, ex-partner, boss, those in high office or those traveling in a caravan carrying nothing but desperate hope of a better future.

The way old-school repo agents see it, I was part of the new crop of fools who are willing to work for next to nothing, whose desperate need to complete the repo can endanger themselves as well as the debtors.

There is nothing more desperate than girls (or boys) that listen to songs that they don't even know the words to.