Sentence examples for trying desperately hard from inspiring English sources

He was just a normal boy, trying desperately hard to be everything he thinks he should be (and sometimes falling a little short).

"I think there's an enormous amount of villains in books," Hopkin said, "and I'm trying desperately hard now to think of an example of a non-deformed villain, and I can't think of one".

The interpretations of Zelig are playfully, pre-emptively rehearsed in the film itself: he is the assimilated Jew, he is melting-pot America, he is all of us, trying desperately hard to fit in.

They are trying desperately hard at present not to reflect on the two matches in which they were one wicket away from victory – two of only 19 in Test history in which the side batting last have hung on with nine men out.

Mr. Mizrahi said he had got to know the characters by reading the script, talking to the actresses and the director "and trying desperately hard not to think of the movie," the 1939 MGM camp classic directed by George Cukor that starred Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell.

We are trying desperately hard for the spark but it is very frustrating.

POLITICIANS and psephologists have tried desperately hard to divine the Scottish mood over the past year.

Now I want to try desperately hard to avoid a personal attack on poor old Tim.

Homosexuals do not choose their condition; indeed, they often try desperately hard, sometimes to the point of suicide, to avoid it.

Try as she might, and for the camera she tried desperately hard, Jackie Susann couldn't possibly fulfill anyone's image of 50's femininity.

Bristol, clear underdogs despite home advantage at the Memorial Ground last night, tried desperately hard to record a first win of the season, but the new law variations have rendered their traditional driving game redundant.