Do not appear desperate; desperation breeds contempt, and relationships built upon contempt are a recipe for unhappiness.
Q: Five minutes after you meet Diana--Rose Byrne's character--there's desperation in your relationship with her.
"Our relationship was born out of desperation and loneliness," Rami adds, noting that ultimately, and purely for logistical reasons, the flirtation remained just that.
Any relationship that involves clinginess and desperation can cause one person to want to keep getting away from the other.
But the agent's relationship with Airbnb soon shifted from desperation to opportunism.
First published in 1936, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood charts the stormy relationship between two women, Robin Vote and Nora Flood, their desperation, devotion, need and compulsion.
Without the role model of a secure partner, those of us who are apprehensive in relationships will find our worst tendencies activated: desperation breeds anxiety.
Her relationship with another refugee is one of attraction amid desperation, their physical desire tamped down only by the limits of their emaciated, louse-/ridden bodies.
Most of Orenstein's single interviewees talk with some level of desperation about wanting to be in a relationship, and the older they get the louder they talk.
It is Will's mother, Camilla (with whom he has a chilly relationship), who hires Louisa, and she does so out of desperation.
But Polly Stenham, having won golden opinions for That Face, with its incestuous mother-son relationship, has come up with another scorching study in emotional desperation.
