Sentence examples for rising desperation from inspiring English sources
I searched for some explanation for this overweening neediness, riffling the pages with rising desperation.
A year ago, amid a mood of rising desperation, the public might well have embraced a large public-works program.
That's in the overlays: in the rising desperation of Alex Maas's vocals as he sings about war, obsession, fear and transfiguration.
That's a product of the rising desperation in our society that has seen foodbanks become one of our fastest growing industries, as I saw for myself last week on a visit to one in prosperous Winchester.
Rising unemployment (twenty-three per cent nationwide, and two or three times that in the townships) and rising food and fuel prices have led to rising desperation for those chronically excluded from the promises of the new South Africa.
WASHINGTON – Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, declared on Thursday that it was time to consider lifting a ban on repatriating low-level detainees to Yemen from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, amid rising desperation and a hunger strike among inmates there.
Serbia, under the leadership of George Petrović (Karageorge), had been in revolt since 1804; at first the Serbs had risen in desperation against the terrorist policies of the Janissaries who had usurped the power of the local governor but they subsequently had demanded autonomy and in 1807 allied themselves with Russia.
During his occasional attempts to remain sober, you can almost smell the sour sweat of his rising panic and desperation.
You can almost smell the weariness and desperation rising off of the tar that Micky, in his day job as a road paver, spreads on streets lined with sagging three-decker houses and faded storefronts.
A kidnap attempt on Chango's daughter goes terribly wrong, the film's tone of desperation rising as it becomes clear that the kidnappers are motivated by something other than money.
You can feel her desperation rising when even Jodean backs out, and you can sense the sexual tension when Ben pushes a belligerent J.J. out of Margene's house.
