Sentence examples for voice desperate from inspiring English sources

In particular, the title track, about a dying relationship, was devastating, with Ms. Ortega's voice desperate and liquid over a melancholic arrangement.

It is embarrassing, being thus conquered by an inward voice desperate to formulate, reconsider, construct, deconstruct, seek out the right phrase, amend it, think again.

"Barrel bombs happen every single day in Aleppo," Ali said, his voice desperate.

But it is a voice desperate and pleading and lost; the people are on their last legs, unable to think beyond today, deprived of oxygen.

"We urgently need clean drinking water," she said repeatedly, her voice desperate.

But even they break down, hands shaking, eyes brimming, voices desperate, when reporters ask ordinary Iraqis edgy questions about Mr. Hussein.

Mr. Gabriel's voice sounds desperate and exposed, clinging to the melody like a life raft.

The narrators of the album's three most powerful songs, "Longing Town," "Mouth on Fire" and "This Is How My Heart Heard," voice a desperate sense of being cut off from all feeling: "Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire/ Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower".

The night is a time of unquiet voices; of desperate thoughts; of monsters.

The latter, sung by Rod John Tartagliaa), a Republican investment banker and closeted homosexual, voices a desperate lie he concocts about an imaginary, sexually voracious lover named Alberta, who lives in Vancouver.

The story focuses on Sade's tutelage of Emilie (Isild Le Besco), a viscount's spirited, virginal daughter who, despite her parents' warnings, discreetly cozies up to Sade and voices her desperate fear that she will die without ever having lived.