Sentence examples for state of desperation from inspiring English sources

"I was in a state of desperation," she said.

The movies hit them where they live -- in their own state of desperation and doubt.

But, at its best, farce makes us laugh uncontrollably while showing human beings reduced to a state of desperation.

In a state of desperation they risked their lives and hid within the landing gear, two stowaways looking for a better life.

We downloaded ours, White Noise Ambience by Logicworks, in a state of desperation in the middle of the night, in a hotel with paper-thin walls.

She added: "It is plain that having travelled from your native Sudan, you were in a state of desperation when you decided to walk through the Channel tunnel".

Walter Dundervill marched and staggered in various states of desperation.

Indelible Acts is a quiet-seeming collection, focused on "the terrible malleability of words" and calm in its study of people in varying existential states of desperation, usually to do with love.

"Pakistan," Ward says, "is in a state of near desperation over water".

April's dream dies earlier, and she spends the second half of the movie in a state of escalating desperation.

"What we are seeing is a state of general desperation among people who are trying to find those responsible for the crisis," said Ricardo Delgado, an economist at Ecolatina, a research group.