"Increasing desperation" refers to a situation where someone becomes more and more desperate or anxious due to a sense of urgency or hopelessness about their circumstances. Full definition
Barça's increasing desperation only served to play into Atléti's hands, and a clear handball in the penalty area by Andrés Iniesta — who desperately sought to prevent the hosts from going two up on the counter-attack — allowed Griezmann the opportunity to score from the spot. (sbnation.com)
And so Kidman and Fiennes are stuck trying to convey their character's increasing desperation over and over again without anything to back it up. (rogerebert.com)
Can only conclude that as the wheels come off the CAGW bandwagon, increasing desperation leads warmunists to produce ever shlockier and easier to rubbish papers claiming it ai nt so. (judithcurry.com)