Desperate
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Others end up on inadequate wooden canoes in
desperate
attempts to reach Spain.
But he was
desperate
to show that he'd just come back, so he summoned me up, and he said, "Go into the bedroom, my bedroom.
After failed attempts to build rafts, and a stinging betrayal by local pirates, the rebels made a
desperate
run to break through Crassus’s lines– but it was no use.
And when you get large numbers of people living in land that is not that fertile, particularly when you cut down trees, and you leave the soil open to the wind for erosion, as
desperate
populations cut down more and more trees, so that they can try and grow food for themselves and their families, what's going to happen?
From the Watergate hearings on national news, to the teacher who had to rent a projector when her school couldn’t afford one, Harvey saw a
desperate
need for political reform.
My equally
desperate
mother would attempt to soothe me and herself by putting on some music.
And I could have just put my hands in the water and rinsed them, but instead, I licked my hands clean, because I was so afraid of losing more than I had already lost, and I was so
desperate
to make sure that he would always be a part of me.
And so, what I think is that organizations are now
desperate
to figure out how to "manage" the multigenerational workplace.
There were times when I was so desperate, I would just walk into a room and go, "Eric?"
At the top of the canvas flashes a bird
desperate
to escape the carnage.
Increasingly
desperate
after selling the last of his valuables to an elderly pawnbroker, he resolves on a plan to murder and rob her.
There's a threatening,
desperate
and angry edge to it.
I was really
desperate
at this point.
Desperate
to escape his tyrannical father and the family curse he feels doomed to repeat, he renames himself Kafka after his favorite author and runs away from home.
But I was
desperate
to get back into Yemen, because for me, Yemen's really personal.
And the thing is, these places are full of students and academics who are
desperate
to collaborate, and the truth is that for them, they have fewer security issues than us.
But we need the data to prove it, the fossils, the stone tools, and so our scouting team have teamed up with other scientists, anthropologists and storytellers, international as well as local, like Ahmed Alarqbi, and we are
desperate
to shed a light on this place before it's too late.
Noor Inayat Khan was in the midst of a
desperate
escape.
In a
desperate
bid to reclaim independence and reunite the fractured Cossack state, their most recent leader, hetman Petro Doroshenko allied with the Ottoman Empire.
You've had your back shoulder to shoulder with these guys that our politicians are
desperate
to relate to every four years, right?"
In the world of "The God of Small Things," “Various kinds of despair competed for primacy… personal despair could never be
desperate
enough... personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible public turmoil of a nation.”
But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading
desperate
lives.
How she incarnates our
desperate
human need for regard, our passion to live in beauty, to be beauty, to be cherished by glances, if by no more, of something like love, or love.
Their adventure had taken many dark turns, and the weary sailors were
desperate
to rest in a safe harbor.
And the thing that makes me so
desperate
is that all of you are facing the same choice, but you don't understand it yet.
So in a competitive industry where DJs have been relentlessly honing their craft,
desperate
to attain gigs, sending demos to clubs, my best friend and I took a different approach, and we started our own club night, and we employed ourselves as the DJs.
By connecting a tribe of people who are
desperate
to be connected to each other.
Whether it was threats to the environment, inequities in the distribution of wealth, lack of a sane policy or a sustainable policy with respect to the continuing uses of energy, we were in
desperate
straits.
The situation is so
desperate
in parts of Africa, Asia, even America, that aid groups, just as they did for the tsunami, are uniting as one, acting as one.
She was
desperate
to keep her new family together— but the slow progress of abolition threatened this hope.
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