| Frustration and desperateness filled his eyes and he fell back onto the pillow, looking more desperate then ever. |
| Judge of the efforts you have to make and of the desperateness of the struggle. |
| I'd never been hungry like that, with a desperateness that can't be expressed. |
| And then we looked at each other for just a moment, one still moment, before the desperateness took over and we were clinging to each other as tightly as we dared. |
| Lloyd George knew that the desperateness of the war situation would require even greater reliance on the dominions. |
| She showed the desperateness of suffering, a woman's incredible patience with injustice and finally, a lowbrow grace that is not common in a world filled with pretensions. |
