Sentence examples for toward desperation from inspiring English sources

/ Travel toward desperation.

Trying, as Stoppard does in "Travesties," to make a play without the magic ingredient of pressure toward desperation is — to lift a phrase from "Jumpers" — "tantamount to constructing a Gothic arch out of junket".

And right as the self-loathing edges toward desperation, the track explodes into a blistering proclamation of a man who wants change.

On the other hand, the future, construed as out of his control, is saturated with distressing emotions, which suggests continued resistance within his apparent fatalism: " inevitable um decline toward desperation and death um which I try not to think about" and " worry about the future at times.

In more radically deterministic terms, the temporal association in the narrative to an unavoidable finality—"there is of course the inevitable um decline toward desperation and death"—suggests a foreshadowed time (Morson, 1994) in which the possibilities of the present are held hostage, limited in their meaning by a predestined future.

He's been best when producers have molded him to fit their needs, as on the 2006 single "Ice Box," on which Timbaland pushed him toward nervous desperation.

As time expired, Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins rolled to his right near midfield and lofted a desperation toward the right side of the north end zone at Spartan Stadium.

He also had two interceptions, the last one on a desperation throw toward the end zone on the game's final play.

So instead of shooting, he passed the ball back to Davis, and the final buzzer sounded before Davis missed a desperation heave toward the basket.

In the fall, the Green Bay Packers were 3 ½-point favorites and led the Seattle Seahawks, 12-7, on "Monday Night Football" when Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson heaved a desperation pass toward the back corner of the end zone on the final play.

When Trent Dilfer heaved a desperation pass toward the end zone, it was just like an ordinary practice for Tampa Bay, with the players bumping and shoving, their hands clawing at the air.