Sentence examples for total desperation from inspiring English sources

It was a total desperation move".

I remembered how in 2003, in total desperation, I ate a stew of monkey meat.

The pioneers of Total Football reduced to total desperation, hit-and-hope nonsense, the kind of football that has never been associated with Holland before.

But it went for bankruptcy protection now, he says, so it would not have to do it in total desperation when the money had run out.

But, only a few scenes later, the anguished way he lifted and carried her lifeless body about in the tomb revealed that this Romeo was now experiencing total desperation.

To envision us readers coming up and pounding on this door, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it, we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and pushing and kicking, etc.

It was our neighbor, wearing a look of near-total desperation.

"In contrast we have total panic and desperation from the 'No' side, offering a cynical bribe which is utterly transparent to voters in Scotland".

We do not lose our heads in craven desperation for total safety.

The look on his face as he found the reserves for a familiar sprint finish – a mixture of defiance, desperation and total exhaustion – suggested as much.

Pow! Pow!" UK grime kids are seething with an anarchic energy not seen since punk that can only come from a really bad-trip type mix of poverty, desperation and a total disregard for any other cunt whatsoever.