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Example sentences for: desperation

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Their linguistic contortions turn into bodily contortions as they literally tie themselves in knots, their desperation for attention doing battle with their determination to say nothing worthy of it.
The island proved to be the last bastion of the samurai ideal, when disenfranchised warriors launched the doomed Satsuma Rebellion in their desperation to forestall the relentless march of progress.
One of the best things about Lubitsch's original is that its Austro-Hungarian, kitsch-laden universe (Nikolaus Laszlo's original play was set in a Budapest perfumery) barely conceals real economic desperation, and there are serious consequences when the two lovers clash and one of them gets fired.
A) Red light; offenses include "strong focus on nuclear warfare and the nihilistic desperation of it ...
Here's Carlson's recounting of the way Bush mimicked Tucker's eleventh-hour appearance on Larry King Live : "Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me."