Sentence examples for relieve desperation from inspiring English sources
Jack Rosenthal, the president of The Times Company Foundation, said that while money donated to the 9/11 Neediest Fund goes to help people who are suffering because of the destruction of the trade center, money given to the Neediest Cases Fund goes where it does every year, to relieve desperation among the poor people of New York City.
Yet I knew they were scams, with anonymous local phone numbers and little other identification, meant to relieve desperate homeowners in a city not lacking in desperation of whatever money they had left.
Comedies about ordinary people have a tendency to fall into drabness relieved by desperation — for instance, Tina Fey and Steve Carell's recent mishap, "Date Night," was so tepid that it required repeated shots of Mark Wahlberg's bare torso to keep the audience awake.
When Mo Speights airballed his fade away three-pointer in the closing seconds of Game 7, it didn't just seal a Cavs victory, but relieved a crushing desperation from a city that has endured a generation of jokes.
Finally, when Ray and Warren have a strikingly persuasive physical tussle that leaves Mr. Bekins red-faced and gasping, he seems almost relieved to show the desperation you would have expected in Ray from the beginning.
Last year, in desperation, she asked a doctor what else she could take to relieve her agony.
