Sentence examples for seemingly desperate from inspiring English sources

People can transcend seemingly desperate situations, and giving them that opportunity creates its own inevitable risks.

It is hard not to oblige, given how poor and seemingly desperate are their circumstances.

City end their season at home against a Southampton side seemingly desperate to avoid playing in next season's Europa League.

With the Fed seemingly desperate for excuses not to act, rising food prices bode ill for underemployed Americans.

As a result, an appetite for higher earnings, not uncommon in other professions, takes seemingly desperate forms.

But she gunned the engine as we moved onto the bridge, seemingly desperate to get across as fast as possible.

It is a painting of tumultuous bodies, reaching out, turning, twisting, contorting, many seemingly in desperate conflict with each other, which coheres as if by some miracle.

But Altman never gave up creating his cinematic portraits of people on the margins — con artists, prostitutes, gamblers, thieves, clowns, movie executives — if only to shed light on the falsity behind his country's seemingly indefatigable, desperate pursuit of success.

These people on True Detective are dirt farmers trying to cultivate some meaning, and the meaning is through murder or drugs or degeneracy or narcissism or intellectualism or family; these seemingly arbitrary desperate responses to this existential void.

She is the same person she was in 2008 (though seemingly even more desperate and eager to pander) and she is still actively trying to make the world worse.

Parallels, more emotional than political, are meant to be drawn between the murderous lead-up to the Cuban revolution and our own racial problems of the late '60s, with Daniel and Renata's troubled marriage jump-started by the frustration and anger of another desperate, seemingly hopeless situation.