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Eventually, in desperation, he seeks a doctor, and receives the salutary advice to stop work and take a break in the country.
Insecurity was followed by anxiety and feelings of desperation.
The apparent recklessness of the act is a testimony to the desperation of the situation.
Exalted imagery may be evidence not of universal enthusiasm but of a desperation to paper over cracks.
There are no lives of quiet desperation here.
When describing the mood among those imprisoned, primary accounts convey a silent desperation in the first years of this persecution.
My anticipation that the chapters contributed seemingly by default by the editor would show some signs of haste and desperation was, happily, not met.
The violence of secret societies, on the other hand, appears ineradicable given the desperation of the lower classes.
The testimony of some of these women demonstrates the desperation at, and mistrust of, the actions of the colonial administration and indigenous leadership.
In their desperation, they feel they have no alternative but to seek sanctuary elsewhere, however hazardous the attempt might be.
78 such features were constructed as acts of desperation in response to climatic change.
When they did achieve proximity, it was unsatisfactory, temporary, or more expressive of desperation than desire.
All of us have, lurking somewhere on our hard disks, some 'quick and dirty' improvisations, sometimes thrown together in desperation, that just seem to work!
In desperation, he throws himself at the wall of his cell.
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