Sentences with phrase «air of desperation»

And there isn't the air of desperation that I'd anticipated from a horde of people paying $ 20 a head to learn how to flirt.

There is an air of desperation about the latest effort by the authorities to show they are on the case in responding to demands that «something must be done» in getting more rapists jailed.

So how come «Laura Owens» is marked by a fizzy air of desperation?

Yet, every time Nintendo goes back to the Mario well, hoping that our affection for this plumber is bottomless, it feels like an air of desperation is creeping in.

The air of desperation it all creates is palpable.

(It doesn't help, either, that there's an air of desperation to virtually all of the movie's attempts at levity, with Nimoy's increasingly frantic efforts to elicit laughs from the viewer growing more and more obnoxious as time progresses.)

There's always a weird air of desperation in the air, which combined with the forced, structured communication, ends up manifesting itself in awkward conversation, and forced, fixed smiles, which you grow tired of very quickly.

«There is an air of desperation in the charges that spew from that camp.

The one time the in - form Black Cats keeper was beaten was a Chamakh header that crashed against the bar when you could sense an air of desperation and frustration amongst the Arsenal players.

«The efforts of apologists,» he says, «to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound of bottoms of barrels being scraped.»

And there is a complete air of desperation in the latest developments in this case.

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

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«Out of desperation,» Dean recalls, he started doing Google searches and discovered that such membranes could be used in heating, ventilation and air - conditioning (HVAC) systems in airtight buildings.

You can somewhat admire the lengths Cage is willing to go to try to reinvent himself and rediscover relevance in the industry (even breaking the fourth wall at one point to discuss «Nic Cage in Con Air»), but that creates a bubble of desperation around him that adds to the sadness that the film chooses not to acknowledge.

At the same time there is something impressive and hopeless about the order / disorder disconnect in this piece, and it gives Memory Index an air of moody desperation.

IMO, the smell of desperation in the air.

Head for the hills, folks, if this is true, or do I smell the whiff of desperation in the air?

I then tried various fancy transforms of the explanatory data, I used ocean as well as air temperatures, then in desperation tried the combined air / ocean temperatures.