The phrase
"utter desperation" means feeling extremely hopeless, panicked, and willing to do anything to solve a problem or improve a situation.
Full definition
Anything that you wouldn't do except in times
of utter desperation isn't something that you ought to run your entire life by.
I have been trying for six months with my two and a half year old son and I am
in utter desperation.
(In real life people seem to make such pacts for 35, but Hollywood is like a Jane Austen novel in that respect: it considers 28 an age of
utter desperation for unmarried ladies.)
The most obvious comparison is Running Scared, another ultra-violent gangster opus involving a man with a checkered past searching
with utter desperation for a boy, encountering all sorts of unsavory situations in his pursuit.
His performance swings
from utter desperation to enragement, from bewilderment to unbridled passion, showcasing all the colours of Keaton's acting range, in what truly is his finest performance to date.
Situations
of utter desperation or «impossibility» are the ones most intimately associated in the biblical narrative with the themes of redemption and revelation.
Without excusing vile behavior, it is a phenomenon in which both victim and perpetrator are born from the same scourge of
utter desperation.»
The following passage, written at a time when it would have been quite «realistic» to despair of Israel's future, may serve to exemplify the trust to which the revelatory promise calls us, not least in situations of
utter desperation:
to me that is
utter desperation and nothing else.no other fans look forward to the new season like us gunners, we are obsessed with a new season, a new promise, yes we will do better than last.
BOSS TOLD ME THAT many people assume mothers who pump exclusively are doing so out of convenience, rather than necessity or
utter desperation: «Moms frequently feel attacked and criticized by friends, family, Internet strangers, etc..
Focusing on the almost inconsequential details of daily routines, like making dinner and drinking tea, director Mike Leigh contrasts Tom and Gerri's happiness with
the utter desperation of their guests.
Complete and
utter desperation.
I accepted the vacuum out of
utter desperation, wanting to be able to vacuum my house again.