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Example sentences for: desperation

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A) Red light; offenses include "strong focus on nuclear warfare and the nihilistic desperation of it ...
The 39-year-old diva thus recovers from an early-'90s "creative nadir"-- Erotica and Sex --that "reeked of heat-seeking desperation" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). (Audio clips are available here.)
Researchers sometimes prey on patient desperation and fail to obtain informed consent.
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.
And in apparent desperation over his lag in the polls, Eduardo Duhalde, the Peronist candidate--the candidate, in other words, of Menem's party, which brought Argentina its unaccustomed stability--startled everyone by announcing his intention to discuss possible debt relief for Argentina.