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Finally, in desperation, they went and they consulted a wise old woman.
So kind of out of desperation, I decided that I could think laterally.
And the reality of the society that we're in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.
My mom took a drink of her signature Sea Breeze, her eyes really welled with tears, and she looked right at me and she said, "I will not stand for your desperation."
I did what I know to do in desperation, which is write.
It's their kind of ur-story onstage, that desperation to live.
And "fun" is an interesting word, because I've talked very much about desperation, loneliness and isolation.
If an act of desperation by a Tunisian fruit vendor sparked these revolutions, it was the difference between what Arabs experienced and what they expected that provided the fuel.
And so that's what I proceeded to do, through a long story, one of desperation, so if I do it, rather than talk about it, if I do it, you'll be the first to know.
Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
You see the two movements integrated, and the object seems to be employing its entire being in this expression of desperation.
And finally, out of desperation, I said, "Well, let me explain Georg Cantor in 1877."
In desperation, her father went to a neighbor to borrow 2,500 dollars.
He heard about the devastation and the desperation of people affected by this disease.
So I wanted to find out, what is it that sets these people apart, the people who do the passionate, world-changing work, that wake up inspired every day, and then these people, the other 80 percent who lead these lives of quiet desperation.
Following yet another heated argument between my parents, in a moment of despair and desperation, my mother turned to me and told me that I should die.
And that's desperation, but that's the reality of living as a refugee in Western Europe in 2015.
And I hope that she is somewhere safe and healthy, and I hope that she sees this talk and she knows that her desperation and her courage inspired the creation of Crisis Text Line and inspires me every freaking day.
Finally, it's all you can think about, and out of sheer desperation, you go on a hunt for a bathroom until "ahh."
One acronym for God is the "gift of desperation," G-O-D, or as a sober friend put it, by the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.
And with doubt came desperation, and with desperation came depression.
But the reason it seems counterintuitive is because we're used to lapsing into multitasking out of desperation.
I've got three little grandchildren, and every time I look at them and I think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was their age, I feel this desperation.
The stark contrast between the poverty and desperation on one side of the border and the conspicuous wealth on the other always feels jarring.
Or will we take proactive steps and learn from the homegrown resource of grassroots activists that have been born of desperation in communities like mine?
In desperation, he shot Rasputin at point-blank range.
The evil wizard’s protective charms ward off every spell you know, so in an act of desperation you throw the only object in reach at him: Pythagoras’s cursed chessboard.
And so, I became convinced that it is this systematic corruption which is perverting economic policy-making in these countries, which is the main reason for the misery, for the poverty, for the conflicts, for the violence, for the desperation in many of these countries.
Ravi is not alone in his desperation.
My desperation made me an innovator.
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