Spurling tells of a life plagued by desperation, self-doubt and nervous anguish, which required an assuaging art of calm. |
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At one point, in desperation, he started his car, turned on its air conditioner and put his son inside to sleep. |
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Ignoring a cab waiting at the kerb, in her desperation to get away from what seemed like a nightmare Iris took to her heels and ran. |
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In contrast to the wistfulness associated with nostalgia, however, the feeling here was one of nervousness, and even desperation. |
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She looked up at him, broken, eyes reddened and wavering in desperation, lips parted slightly. |
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The spin on the Telegraph story is so blatant that it reeks of desperation. |
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This juxtaposition between western products and human desperation underlines the inequalities of the new world order. |
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Masculine desperation is rapidly evolving into the vogue cinematic theme of the new millennium. |
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Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide. |
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The heat, humidity and squalor of the flooded city is causing panic and desperation. |
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Roberto Carlos has taken to hacking the ball miles into the stand in desperation. |
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The plight of many asylum-seekers, their desperation and their statelessness, has in the past been summed up by their lack of documentation. |
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As she ran on in desperation she cannoned into an old woman who she only saw after it was all too late. |
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He could speak very little English and in desperation took a job as a head waiter with an Italian restaurant chain. |
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I recognised my scrawl and wondered if I had written this in desperation for something to do for another heartsink patient. |
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With increasing desperation, he looked for it, scanning the heaving landscape before him for something to hold onto. |
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In response, he cries out for her not to leave him, desperation depicted on his face. |
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And the young actress doesn't rely on hysterics and overacting to convey Maria's desperation. |
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At the same time, I breathe a regretful sigh at the anguish, the desperation and the rage reflected in the letters I hold in my hand. |
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Trudy called in desperation, but she had flown off to let Trudy face this test alone. |
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Not the most expressive of actors, he plays the bewildered amnesiac suffering inner demons with mostly a quiet desperation. |
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Throughout the album, Dead Prez move from bitter reportage, recounting tales of poverty and desperation, to impassioned calls to action. |
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The burden of his espionage responsibilities gives him a distinct air of desperation. |
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As the ringside bell tolls, the boxing match gets underway sending Billy spiraling into revenge, desperation and bitter betrayal! |
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In sheer desperation I made a cocktail using equal amounts of tequila and limoncello, with just a splash of fresh lemon juice. |
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Nobody doubts for a second Baron's desperation to revive the national team, and I am not suggesting that he be arraigned for defeatist talk. |
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Many feel desperate to return to city life because of the feelings of desperation and loneliness they experience in a countryside setting. |
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There is a rueful self-deprecation at play here, at odds with a quiet desperation. |
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In desperation, the Greek army sent a runner in full battle gear to tell the Senate the news. |
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They may have over-eaten, in their desperation to assuage their hunger, or drunk themselves silly. |
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In the twelfth McGuigan, flailing away in apparent desperation, was penalized a point by referee Richard Steele for a low blow. |
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Matt was clearly mad with grief, his words laced with a new desperation and an unwelcome spite. |
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Her voice echoed the desperation I could see in the tear-stained eyes of her children. |
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The impetus and content of gangster rap may have originated in the desperation and backwardness of the inner-city population. |
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Yet, the New York Times fails to make that distinction and pretends that the the desperation was overblown. |
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Both stories capture the hopelessness and desperation of grinding poverty, but in very different ways. |
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Shareholder suits are designed to be a final, desperation remedy, not a knee-jerk reaction. |
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You see this desperation in the way they respond to our every little action and in the way they twist our words to suit themselves. |
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In a state of financial desperation, the camera captures Christophe hocking his musical instruments, the things he loves the most. |
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There is a level of desperation provided in the performances, and the monochrome image sells the desert swelter very well. |
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I am sure non-smokers do not know the feeling of desperation after having gone without a ciggy for three or four hours. |
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From now on, pizza will just be a circular abomination we order out of desperation, when there isn't time to make anything good. |
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A big red bus rolled past, around a curve, and out of sight as I waved in pathetic desperation. |
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It is rather painful however to watch her clutch at the chance for stardom with a diligence and a desperation that the film does not warrant. |
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Yet agents and buying agents, with unusual coyness and some desperation, are reporting a lack of stock and turning away buyers. |
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In desperation, at least 24 genuine refugees in the immovable queue got on that boat and drowned. |
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But what Pinter's production clearly presents us with is a collision between two different forms of desperation. |
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Apparently, the first floor failing clothing store owner, in an act of desperation, set a phone book on fire and took a little walk. |
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Some gunmen were seen running from the school, firing indiscriminately in desperation. |
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It was beautiful, it was terrible, it was ferocious, it was the stuff of desperation. |
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As elastic bands pinged across the classroom, I reached in desperation for a book. |
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In desperation, soldiers and citizens took to secretly inoculating themselves for protection. |
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As Fantine, she was effective, exhibiting the desperation and piteousness of her distraught grisette. |
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There was a soul-searching desperation in his eyes that inspired Roza with both compassion and a strange excitement. |
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Tony's adventures are intercut with scenes of Brenda's increasing desperation as she is left with no money and a disinterested lover. |
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The show melds modern dance techniques and poetic prose narrative to illustrate her desperation. |
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Many responses contained wit born of desperation amid the backwash created by foot and mouth, BSE and the collapse of tourism. |
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The ball ballooned off his pads and landed between his feet as Vaughan, in desperation, grabbed the ball. |
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In an increasing state of desperation, they find themselves driven to the edge of breakdown, violence, psychosis and self-annihilation. |
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So, in desperation, the Italian orchestra handed the baton over to its own principal cellist. |
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With a voice oscillating between organ-like thunder and strangled quietness, Gambon brings out Hamm's terminal desperation. |
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You struggle up in the dark, focusing your eyes in desperation on the digital alarm clock, which tells you that it's 7.30 am. |
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Serrand does a remarkable job of finding the humanity in these characters, even when emphasizing their desperation and melancholy. |
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He still grasped a ragged and naked branch of the tree with hands clenched in desperation. |
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In desperation I had a toasted ham sandwich in brown bread which was fine, but I should have liked a serviette. |
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By 1865, desperation forced the Confederate Congress to authorize black combat troops, although the war ended before any saw service. |
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He tossed in a desperation three-pointer from just inside midcourt with 1.1 seconds left. |
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Its a mirage, a figment of some businessman's dream or an economists momentary flash of desperation. |
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I can feel anger and bile rising in me, rising up out of the years of desperation and hollow fury. |
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Pooja Shah's Manni goes biliously to the dogs as she swigs from the vodka bottle with naked desperation. |
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It did nothing to alleviate the depression, desperation, and miasmic ennui that was engulfing me. |
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Out of sheer desperation I crawled down to the local church and threw myself in a font of holy water. |
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I hope this doesn't appear crass, but it hints at the desperation of the survivors that we can help by sending rice to that region. |
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Witness those professional funny men who seem to lead lives of dull or doped desperation. |
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In desperation, you attempt to use the useless tome as an impromptu projectile weapon. |
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Most, especially men, drank to escape deplorable housing conditions and the desperation of a life going nowhere. |
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It signals desperation and a lack of confidence in those who look to the famous for guidance. |
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If it fails, it will seem like an act of desperation by a leader lacking serious military experience. |
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The court heard the crime was born out of desperation over crippling financial pressure. |
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After that, the boat began drifting out to sea and it was then that desperation began to set in. |
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This would be an extreme act at one end of the spectrum of economic desperation. |
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The result was a work of such desperation I feel morally obliged to give it coverage. |
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The film has a real apocalyptic feel to it, and the sense of doom and desperation is saturating this movie. |
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He is alone with his terrors gripped by feelings of desperation and living at the limits. |
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I know the torment you've been going through, as you seek the answer with ever more desperation. |
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You can see her desperation and fear for tomorrow etched in the worried lines of her face. |
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He also knows that his desperation to avoid defeat will not lessen with time. |
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During his trial, he explained that he had been driven to desperation because of poverty. |
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Through the syntax of misery and desperation shines no light, only more of the same. |
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Her story is one of poverty and desperation typical of a country that has known nothing but war for the past decade. |
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What shocked the York soldiers was the poverty and desperation of the people. |
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The latest threats are acts of desperation born out of hatred and incompetence. |
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He had committed the crime out of desperation and a complete lack of judgement. |
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Still, where there is greed and desperation, charlatans and conners will prosper. |
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Now it should lead the way in finding solutions to the problems that breed violence and desperation. |
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Not having experienced the desperation of oppression, we have little purchase on the extremism it might engender. |
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The man who once used to enjoy an elevated status in society only because he owned a ration shop is now overpowered by desperation. |
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Declarer should recognise that this is a desperation double, and redouble it. |
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Using wry wit where melodrama would have sufficed, she externalises her character's grave desperation with mettle. |
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The music retains its easy tunefulness, but inside many of the songs lurks a desperation that seems new to the Clientele world. |
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This needn't have happened if not driven by Morgan's sudden monomania and desperation to be right. |
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In desperation, the designer borrowed an idea from silent discos, in which clubbers sway to their own iPods. |
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It all adds weight to the old theory that most people lead lives of quiet desperation. |
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In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair. |
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I'd driven the poor chap over the edge of biographical desperation with my stark boringness. |
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There are the jolly good ideas born out of late-night-by-the-Aga desperation. |
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The lives and relationships it evoked were lonely, oppressively small-town and laced with desperation. |
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Love spells are on the whole rather unsubtle, heavy handed pieces of work and they're usually born out of desperation. |
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That's three nights running I've had to stumble down Cannon Street Road, humming madly to disguise my desperation for a pee. |
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Through a series of solo dances, representing different women, Borissova creates a melancholic atmosphere, reaching towards desperation. |
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Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich. |
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But, in general, the wail of jazz trumpets and the melancholy echoes of domestic chaos remind you that Elysian Fields resounds with desperation. |
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In desperation, she entered warily into a sexual liaison with an army captain, who offered some promise of economic stability. |
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Administration had caught Dakar, and accrediting it to desperation to do better in school by doctoring his grades, had let him go with a warning. |
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In desperation, she tried to force her unwilling feet to move, but it was as though she were mired in quicksand. |
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Critics will no doubt mock the idea, asserting perhaps that it is a sign of weakness or even desperation. |
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It was a mark of the Scottish Executive's desperation to get off the Holyrood hook that the First Minister had to rely on fiscal jiggery-pokery. |
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Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning. |
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The actor nevertheless invests the character with a keenly felt desperation. |
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In desperation, Novalee camps in the Wal-Mart store, keeping a tally of all the food and goods she has borrowed. |
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Facts were fabricated from whole cloth by wild rumor and fueled by crowd hysteria, fear, desperation and downright anger. |
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A player in a slump is a sad sight to behold, equal parts wild-eyed desperation and puppy-dog bewilderment. |
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Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety. |
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Several days into his holiday on the sun-kissed isle of Thassos, desperation for his favourite meal led him to make a dreadful mistake he won't forget in a hurry. |
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Somewhat of an acquired taste, his screaming vocals transmit a message of fury, desperation and anger, though perhaps the actual content is hard to pick up. |
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For better or worse, the lyrics are equally dated, seldom addressing issues more dynamic than lovesickness, desperation, or down-on-your-luck blues. |
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First, that the regime might use them against rebels or civilians in a last-ditch act of desperation. |
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Beneath the bubbling sixteenths an obsessive rhythm, a rat-a-tat on a repeated note with a semitone fillip on the end, adds to the feeling of desperation. |
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He deletes that infamous unresolved opening chord and inserts some suitably ominous guitar atmospherics that play up the desperation obscured by the Beatles' peppy original. |
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Imperiled as he is, he cannot recreate the tooth-and-nail desperation that fueled Shackleton. |
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There are glimpses of smoky rooms, rolling seas and fiery skies, all conveyed with the desperation of a man who clearly realizes his escapism is also his undoing. |
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Last year, three women of ethnic Bulgarian origin went on a hunger strike as a last resort in their desperation to seek protection from the state. |
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Apparently it is a heady mix of desperation with underlying scents of money and old rope topped off with the faint whiff of sanctimonious windbaggery. |
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It's enough to make any sane person tear their hair out in desperation. |
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But this exercise reeks of contrivance and even desperation. |
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His newspaper indicates his desperation to kiss the story off. |
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Sure, Crudup's teasing sexuality during the first act is entertaining, but it's his desperation and her uncertainty that makes the rest of the film so enjoyable. |
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To be honest, the Informix purchase reeks of desperation to me. |
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When it comes to the humor, Just Married reeks of desperation. |
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As happens with emotional people, her voice filled with desperation. |
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The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters. |
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What does our desperation to get a nuclear deal at all costs say to the modern-day Iranian Solzhenitsyns rotting in Evin prison? |
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They were shouting with a mixture of fury and desperation about their families in Kobani, under siege just across the line. |
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They allowed us to capture the complicated relationship between poverty and family bonds, between community pride and desperation. |
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The hospital occupation on January 24 was an act of desperation by an armed group known as the God's Army, a small splinter group from the Karen National Union. |
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In greedy desperation, Oberon plans to distract Titania by having his impish henchman Puck slip her a mickey, causing her to fall in love with something repulsive. |
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He plays the desperation and volatility of the character to perfection. |
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The jaunty melodies sugar over the desperation of the lyrics. |
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The next move landed us only at Jammu without bag and baggage and reeling under the tremendous agony, desperation and exasperation, thinking what is in our fate. |
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And the stench of desperation from retailers, fearful that the vital Christmas holiday season will be a stinker. |
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Few bragged about online dating, often keeping the whole ordeal secret, as it reeked of dating desperation. |
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It reeks of desperation and signals an inability to come to grips with modernity. |
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I picked up the Sunday paper that weekend and saw a double-page spread full of interviews with the childless couples who had written to the woman in desperation. |
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The situation seemed hopeless and desperation filled them both with anger. |
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All the neuroses and hang-ups, desperation and conceit I can do without. |
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The crowd surged forward, driven by sheer desperation and fear. |
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The Full Moon, Friday, intensifies the need for intimacy to near desperation. |
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There was a second lighter dark patch up there that rivaled the first one and I almost laughed at my odd desperation to see nature's celestial beauty. |
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They are so matter-of-fact about it all that you never really get the sense of desperation or abjection that we're used to seeing in heroin narratives. |
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In desperation I invented a reason to drive over to Minehead, thinking that the hustle and bustle of the town would shake me up, get me going again. |
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Chasing after mere favorability and openness is an unbecoming act of desperation. |
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Then you can fall upon your food in wild desperation and enthusiasm. |
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His voice was laced with desperation as he blacked out, his arm dropping. |
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People in such bleak circumstances often acted upon desperation. |
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At the Pentagon, which bears the brunt of much of this hesitation and vacillation, the mood is one of not-so-quiet desperation. |
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They showed desperation, ruthlessness and remorse among other things. |
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The play is about violence, machismo, poverty, desperation, and surrogate-father figures. |
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I believe that desperation comes out of fear, fear of the unknown. |
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In desperation I turned to that old standby, the self-induced trance. |
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Flooding is an annual curse for the Chinese people, but there is a desperation surrounding attempts to shore up the crumbling banks of Dongting Lake. |
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Halici captures all the quiet desperation of his character, but the unvaried delivery can be monotonous and the acoustics of the space are not sympathetic. |
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The war talk over global warming also reflects an increasing desperation on the part of eco-activists, commentators and official environment departments. |
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No shame and desperation to drive a teammate to hand over money or the playbook to a blackmailer. |
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Acting on his own desperation, he begins to brutally beat Jamie. |
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The home team appealed for offside but it was more in desperation than anything else and as their heads dropped Ilkley completed the scoring with ten minutes to go. |
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In desperation, viniculturists grafted millions of French vine tops onto Phylloxera resistant American root stocks, thereby saving the world's wine industry. |
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While desperation was clear on their faces, his visage betrayed nothing. |
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She came from nowhere, leaping into their midst like a tigress, striking about her with the focused fury of total commitment and utmost desperation. |
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In desperation, Wood thought of trying to fertilise human eggs inside animals, where he hoped the biological environment would be better for the eggs. |
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For many people it keeps getting harder to bear their desperation quietly. |
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The assistance received made the difference between survival and desperation, and the accompanying sentiments provided emotional support at a time of desolation. |
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Indulged and defended by successive Mail editors he continued to highlight the insidiousness of the apartheid regime and its increasing desperation. |
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My heart ached for him as I heard the desperation in his voice. |
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Perhaps, instead, they had reached a desperation we can't quite fathom. |
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Shameless e-begging, or a justified act of financial desperation? The idea of crowdfunding university fees will certainly divide opinion. |
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Bezul saw the sell-swords choose the doorway, not him, and somehow got in front of them, then desperation took control of his mind. |
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Hard-hearted thriller with an authentic air of desperation and sleaziness, produced by Martin Scorsese. |
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In desperation, he tries to grab the rain gutter, but with his sprained wrist, the pain is too great, and he loses his grip. |
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A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation. |
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Unexpected turns in suburban desperation, deception and devaluation. |
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Not suggesting there was glue involved, or it reaks of desperation or owt, just that it's a bit, well, weird really innit. |
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In other words, the Kings were motivated by equal parts desperation and determination to throw their bodies around like wrecking balls. |
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Stories of war, death, fear and desperation do not have happy endings. |
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In their desperation to silence the scandal, the unlamented Grant Shapps was made scapegoat. |
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In desperation, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish was called for permission to livetrap and remove the foxes. |
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Only a discombobulating dolt would not notice this and cling with pathetic desperation to the last vestiges of past glory. |
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Win and it's a Pyrrhic victory, a triumph for political desperation over principle. |
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As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore. |
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Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued. |
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At least one extra levy provoked desperation and rioting in which the emperor's statues were destroyed. |
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In desperation the Council tried a different strategy, offering an amnesty to thieves if they paid compensation to their victims. |
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Bombers were flown with airborne search lights out of desperation but to little avail. |
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Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. |
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For this reason, the haymaker or roundhouse is not a conventional punch, and is regarded by trainers as a mark of poor technique or desperation. |
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Our policy is not directed against any country, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. |
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In desperation with seasonal sinus flare-up, I pulled out my coconut oil with a drop of peppermint and oil pulled for 20 minutes. |
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To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer. |
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Poisoning can occur where buttercups are abundant in overgrazed fields where little other edible plant growth is left, and the animals eat them out of desperation. |
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In this atmosphere of panic and desperation, an emergency was declared. |
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Kuznetsova, the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open title winner showed her desperation to outpower Bencic with deep serves, as she double-faulted on the hard surface six times. |
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This entire article wreaks of desperation to unload the property. |
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If there is no light at the end of the tunnel, chronic pain can render a person dysfunctional. In desperation, people often turn to potent pain-killing medication for relief. |
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In desperation, Alice grabs a nearby bread knife and kills him. |
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There is desperation in poor Graham's eyes as he tries SO hard to inject high camp drama into a cheapo show that looks like it's churned out on a budget of about 30 quid. |
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In desperation, the Sultan Mahmud II appealed to the empire's traditional archenemy Russia for help, asking the Emperor Nicholas I to sent an expeditionary force to save him. |
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Immiseration and desperation in Germany contributed to Hitler's ascent to power and indirectly to World War II, in which France had to be saved by its allies. |
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In desperation, his stepfather returned to work at sea, while his mother moved from Glasgow to Newarthill, where his maternal grandmother still lived. |
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In most cases, the provocation must induce rage or anger in the defendant, although some cases have held that fright, terror, or desperation will suffice. |
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In desperation, the brown-haired bumbler confides in him about his marriage doubts, hoping the revelations will take his mind off making him exercise. |
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Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair. |
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