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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
You could hear the desperation in Mary's voice.
It was an act of desperation.
Desperation makes the soldier or the monk.
Suicide is an act of desperation.
Tom had a look of desperation on his face.
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Desperation, mortality, perseverance!
For fatigue, the sailors must leave the chase,.. despite the desperation of Farandola.
My learned opponent, in his desperation. is trying to make it appear that the railroad company. and not the state of Missouri is prosecuting this defendant.
So, in desperation, and only as a last resort, did Frank turn to robbery.
And always the mood of the men grew uglier. as empty bellies and desperation began to conquer reason.
I'm aware neither of the desperation of the generalissimo's needs nor how good are his sources of information.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I can't take quiet desperation!
No, by discovering in your real face the same signs of desperation.
His total desperation tempted me. His trust in me and my ambition.
I was in a state of desperation and I followed them, hoping for I knew not what.
Ours was the desperation of groping in the dark.
In desperation, one does not examine one's avenue of escape.
What's all the desperation about?
If the rooms weren't padded, one would hurt themselves out of desperation.
Torture and hatred I do deserve, desperation and death!
And always the mood of the men grew uglier, as empty bellies and desperation began to conquer reason.
You're running away in sheer desperation.
I live in Surrey, Doctor Watson, and I've come to London on sheer desperation.
A poor, honest farmer pushed to the wall by hardship. Until finally, in desperation, he's forced to sell and stoops to the crass commercialism of newspaper advertising.
That was pure desperation.
It's one of those cock-eyed concepts that you pull down out of cloud eight somewhere in sheer desperation.
A kind of final desperation, I guess.
And then, in desperation, when confronted with the growing chain of evidence, they sought to remedy the situation by getting married and playing the part of the two young lovers for the benefit of every tabloid scandal sheet in the country.
For all its desperation, the pursuit seemed fruitless.
Your desperation gives me strength.
Why had he, in desperation gone to Tilde's room?
Now, we all know, and I'm sure the doctor will agree with me, that desperation is a highly emotional state of mind.
Logic informed me that under the circumstances, the only possible action would have to be one of desperation.
The young girl who led the attack against us when we beamed down was filled with the violence of desperation.
I have just shown to you to ease your desperation.
She drank liquid oxygen. She did it out of desperation.
In desperation I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure. or, if that cannot be, on the road to pain.
News and current affairs
But that would be so uncontrollable and dangerous for him as to be deeply implausible - unless we drive him to desperation.
We must find ways to counteract this because a system that does not offer hope and opportunity to its losers is liable to be disrupted by acts of desperation.
In desperation, village leaders in Anhui province initiated an experiment that returned land to peasants-a de facto privatization that violated official policy.
But here China's analysis has been completely wrong, for it underestimates the Kim regime's unmanageable desperation whenever it believes that its survival in doubt.
The ECB's decision to double down on monetary stimulus should thus be regarded as an act of desperation.
A tiny minority of such men might lash out in desperation.
First, it leads to desperation among parts of the population.
But this also requires helping those people who out of desperation have fallen prey to extremist forces.
Arab men and women have shed the sense of humiliation and inferiority that despotism imposed on them - and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.
But in the borrower's view it is usurious - taking advantage of the borrower's desperation.
Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and death.
Tereshkova's dream is a symbol not only of her desperation, which is the desperation of the creative mind in today's Russia, but also of continuing belief in the great potential of the human spirit.
Only a dramatic move by external powers can still save Gaza from becoming a second Mogadishu and both Palestinians and Israelis from a total war that would only breed more rage and desperation.
Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods - the result of deforestation higher up.
Whatever one makes of the data, the number of people leading lives of quiet desperation in these countries is unconscionably large.
His desperation mounting, Saleh has ordered deadly attacks on protesters, evidently believing that his considerable skill at political manipulation would see him through.
We must be careful not to drive migration further underground or offer additional opportunities to the criminal gangs that prey on the desperation of migrants to make obscene profits.
Waves of immigrants, driven from their homes by poverty and desperation, blend one nation's struggles into another's.
Even so, the scale and brazenness of the fraud were unprecedented, indicating Obasanjo's desperation.
But it also reflects a more fundamental factor in the Kremlin's foreign policy: desperation to maintain Russia's strategic influence at a time of unprecedented challenges to its authority.
Rather, they highlight the radicals' desperation to influence a region where the overwhelming majority of Muslims aspire to integrate into, rather than challenge, the established order.
The Arab Spring - triggered by slow growth, high youth unemployment, and widespread economic desperation - has given way to a long winter in Egypt and Libya, where the alternatives are a return to authoritarian strongmen and political chaos.