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Discover LudwigThe phrase "point of desperation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which a person feels they must take extreme or desperate measures to achieve a desired outcome or result. For example, "The teacher had reached a point of desperation by the end of the school year, trying to get her students to pass their final exams."
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So I haven't reached the point of desperation yet.
Their songs were catchy to the point of desperation.
DEPRESSED and driven to the point of desperation, Nabil joined a hunger strike in February.
Epstein had already been rejected by several record companies and was nearing the point of desperation.
"Senator Santorum is at a point of desperation that he will say or do anything," it said in a statement.
With the game in the fourth quarter, it is now nearing the point of desperation for New England.
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We became obsessed with painting inside the lines, to the point of desperation.
"We are now at the point of such desperation and live in such fear of persecution within North Korea that we have come to the decision to risk our lives for freedom rather than passively await our doom," the statement said.
The rights network said the defectors carried a message in English: "We are now at the point of such desperation and live in such fear of persecution within North Korea that we have come to the decision to risk our lives for freedom rather than passively await our doom.
That level of desperation touches my heart.
To us, as if obscurely hopes or harms can come to it, as if it walks the street in love, abashed, abused, as if it, too, expands to wonder at the point of it, contracts to desperation in the blue morning, helplessly expands anew.
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