I imagine that it is driven by the same desperate desire to believe that a secular solution can be found before it is too late. (religion-online.org)
Frank Langella is positively formidable as the former president, a skilled manipulator under optimal circumstances whose desperate desire for rehabilitation makes him extra dangerous. (foxnews.com)
For, more than anything, the emails evince Jones and others scientists» almost desperate desire to keep the wagons circled — not because the science is shaky, but because they feel the field is under siege. (foreignpolicy.com)