Charred, gnawed human bones from this late period suggest desperate times.
He was looking for something to read when another writer, Sigrid Nuñez, suggested Desperate Characters.
By that time, he was working as an editorial assistant at Norton, and when the company's "paperback committee" asked its younger employees to bring in ideas about what the company might republish, he suggested "Desperate Characters".
I haven't had time to watch the higlights yet but when I heard that the game had been "marred by a mass brawl toward the end" my own reaction was thank good ness we now have two pro-teams filled with players desperate to win and dare I suggest desperate to show Andy Robinson the desire they have to pull on the Scotland jersey.
The peculiar enthusiasm for the film, starring Logan Marsuggestseen, suggests a desperate longing for simplicity in commercial filmmaking.
Putin's sudden embrace of nationalism and territorial expansionism suggests a desperate gambit to keep his numbers from slipping.
While this suggests a desperate chasing after another borough's trends, at least the prime beef is classic steakhouse meat, ranched in the Midwest, gorged on corn in its final weeks and dry-aged almost a month.
The fact that they keep doing this despite the state's dubious distinction of having the highest property taxes in the nation suggests how desperate New Jerseyans are to combat suburban sprawl.
If "Bella" (the title doesn't make sense until the last scene) is a mediocre cup of mush, the response to it suggests how desperate some people are for an urban fairy tale with a happy ending, no matter how ludicrous.
Philippe Decrauzat's "Melancholia," a black polyhedron with a skull imprinted on one facet, calls to mind Dürer's great print of the same title, while his "Light Space Modulator," a simple stainless steel pipe structure with two lights blinking in coded patterns, suggests a desperate effort to communicate.
