Sentence examples for somewhat desperate from inspiring English sources

Sales people look somewhat desperate.

His trombone and his machines were the lyrical centers of his somewhat desperate life.

But hope as well as desire spring eternal in D'Artagnan's joyful, frazzled, somewhat desperate art.

Up close, this town can sometimes look a little grubby, the business somewhat desperate, the movies too.

Nor is it surprising to see Alistair Darling's somewhat desperate attempts to get the banks to lend more.

Despite falling a considerable distance, he is, it transpires, unhurt, but the incident gives tonight a somewhat desperate air.

Much of Chewing Gum follows the conflicts between Tracey's religion and her somewhat-desperate mission to lose her virginity.

A pretty desperate situation.

This may require an accelerated timetable for shifting American forces from Iraq, where the security situation has grown somewhat less desperate.

At the same time Walter Mondale, the party's White House nominee, was a worthy but somewhat dull figure, desperate to shake up a contest in which the popular incumbent Ronald Reagan, helped by a surging economy, was universal favourite to win a second term.

It sounded somewhat staged, a desperate flip-flop, considering the Giants' paper-thin schedule and the realization that they will not have proved much unless they barge their way into the playoffs, as opposed to straggle in through the back door.