Examples of desperation

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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.
Moreover, there may be other arguments that can ' save the soul ' without appearing to be desperation moves.
In desperation one can invoke the lipids as contributing to the channel structure, although what that structure might be is hypothetical at best.
In some cases, these appeals represented cries of desperation or frustration at the ineptitude of the judicial system and essentially sought a speedy sub judice response to cases.
There is about them an obvious sense of desperation, of reaching well beyond the textual evidence in order to identify an interpretative register appropriate to the opera's effect.
While such stories are intended to be humorous, they foreground the desperation of the rural tenantry, who suffered from periodic famine long before and after the devastation of the 1840s.
A quick survey of the literature on evaluations reveals a kind of desperation.
Their social standing, as expressed in their proximity to power and by their loyalty to service, could not compensate anymore for this decline in living standards and growing desperation.
The outbreak of the strike was an act of desperation caused by the economic effects of the war and in open defiance of the government ban on strikes.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Governments currently show some desperation to keep older people out of acute hospitals, and when they are admitted, to move them out as quickly as possible.
A small number flicker momentarily in the public consciousness, usually by virtue of acts of desperation.
In sum, since existing contact accounts of periphrastic do posit sociolinguistic contexts or even source languages for which there is no evidence, they must be viewed as hypotheses of desperation.
Whatever the motivators of migration - a family connection, friendship, or merely one's own courage or desperation, lacking an institutional or village network - connections at destination were crucial.
They suspected that the state, by dragging out the negotiations, wanted the workers' unity to unravel, as some workers would return to work in desperation to feed their families.
I can well understand the desperation of those who are involved.
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