Sentence examples for was driven to desperate from inspiring English sources

Some hold that Byron's dog went mad in sympathy with Byron; others that Nero was driven to desperate melancholy by associating with Mr Carlyle.

In 1895 a postman called Charles Owen Martin was driven to desperate means to try to obtain a beard: he stole a postal order, and spent it on a patent lotion guaranteed to produce "a pair of captivating, fascinating whiskers".

"A lot of people have been driven to desperate measures to get around," he said.

But if it doesn't, Mr Moi may be driven to desperate measures.In the run-up to the last two elections, perhaps 2,000 people were killed in ethnic clashes stirred up by Mr Moi's pals.

He wrote in his 1879 Bathurst letter: I tell you that highway robbery is only in its infancy for the white population is been driven out of the labour market by an inundation of Mongolians and when the white man is driven to desperation there will be desperate times.

As Iceland ran, three on one, to the winning goal, the announcer, Guðmundur Benediktsson, was driven to a desperate, orgasmic, inarticulate siren of excitement, now legendary on the Internet, and never to be forgotten by anyone who heard it live.

"By move 24 Gheorghiu was so tied up that he was driven to the desperate pawn sacrifice 24...g5, in vain hope that he could organize some sort of counterattack on the white king".

Frustrated and desperate, Ms. Kushner admitted she was driven to irrationality and even sought ultimately unhelpful advice from pet psychics.

I was driven to suicide by the lack of care for my gender dysphoria that I have been desperate for.

This turns out to be a play about outsiders transfixed and skewered by the United States, who are driven to a desperate game.

"We cannot stand by and watch as more children are driven to the same desperate attempts to cross the Channel".