Sentences with phrase «desperation at»

In the case of individual clients, motives will range from pure greed, a feeling that «the grass is greener somewhere else», to desperation at the way the firm seems to be going.

What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.

Not fanboy desperation at all; just responding to the comments here.

And the attempts at several different kinds of humor smacks of desperation at times.

The first half hour has the scheming zing of a better episode of Gossip Girl (a disastrous prank involving the bride's dress is shockingly callous); then you realize that Headland has little interest in exploring the obvious desperation at the root of their toxicity.

There's a sadness and a free - floating sense of loneliness and desperation at the core of Franco's performance as Wiseau.

In a Wong Kar - wai movie, say, such lavish design will mirror or counterpoint emotion; here, in the absence of any emotion whatsoever, it comes across as affectation at best, desperation at worst.

Honestly, can I get some more pairs???? Desperation at its finest.

I've learned a great many tools for keeping desperation at bay in my life, especially around food, and I've built a pretty impressive arsenal of tricks and practices to make sure I have healthy and nourishing food at the ready when I get hungry.

He told Prince Minkah on Class91.3 FM's Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 30 November that: «Unless you take all Ghanaians to be fools, but Ghanaians are not fools, so the type of questions I'm asking, every Ghanaian will ask those questions and will be able to draw a conclusion that this is desperation at its highest peak.»

Baby Shusher LLC was founded by Chad & Katie Zunker, who birthed the product out of their own personal desperation at home while raising their three little girls.

Sometimes the money and the rush and love all get together in one game, wrapped in desperation at the end of the cycle.

In addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top teams in the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low level.

But in your version of the cartoon, are there also people wailing in shock and desperation at who they expected to see and didn't make it?

Not exact matches

Offering freelance positions at your company is no longer about worker desperation but worker convenience.

When O'Neil first started to see Olympic medals showing up at coin shows, she didn't know it at the time but it was a byproduct of Soviet bloc economic desperation.

The startup path is strewn with aspiring entrepreneurs who give up at the first tough challenge, are quick to make excuses or burn themselves out in stubborn desperation on a broken objective.

They ingest more drugs than seems humanly possible, sell worthless stocks to anyone they can get on the phone, paw at every woman that comes near with a kind of slobbering, animalistic desperation, and (spoiler alert) more or less get away with it.

Yet, it seems like even mainstream media is grasping at some of these tactics in desperation to survive.

At the time the loan was interpreted as a sign of desperation.

«At their desks on the other side of the Atlantic, Druckenmiller and Soros saw the rate hikes as an act of desperation by a dying man.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.

More importantly, consider moving at least a portion of your assets abroad to a safe, stable, low - debt jurisdiction that doesn't have the same desperation.

But even fans of the president vented anger and desperation, laying the challenge of responding to the tragedy at his feet.

In desperation trying to avoid a worse fate, many of Japan's tortured financial institutions were left open and operating so as to not force losses too much at a time.

In desperation trying to avoid a worse fate, many of Japan's tortured financial institutions were left open and operating so as to not force losses too much at...

God's response to Elijah's desperation is at odds with what we'd expect.

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

A pastoral approach recognises that desperation is precisely at the heart of the homosexual person's experience.

At last, in his desperation, the question hit him: «Well, how much better off am I than a cancer patient?

With debonair desperation they multiply the telling of stories, making them up as they go along, in the hope of finding one with which, as it is said, they are «comfortable» — at least for the time being, until they feel the need for another that will, as it is said, meet their needs.

Percy himself seems to have a high regard for it as at least an honest cry of desperation as opposed to the dull oblivion in which most people remain sunk.

Most people (or at least most specialists) seem to believe - though perhaps out of desperation - that we can.

Sitting at his kitchen table sipping the coffee, King's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden notion that at once intensified his desperation and clarified his options.

When you do look at references to cannibalism in the Old Testament, you can infer from the context of Deuteronomy 28:53 - 57, Leviticus 26:29, 2 Kings 6:26 - 29 and Jeremiah 19:9, Ezekiel 5:10, and Lamentations 4:10 that just as much as now people at time understood it to be an act of desperation, but it is never explicitly forbidden by God.

Language here is not up to the task, and in desperation the philosopher ascribes this insight of a self-less race to some «perspectiveless perspective» or «view from nowhere» — a view, we are to understand, of nobody at all.

It is not merely that man arrives at the last pitch of desperation, the place where he can no longer help himself.

Such alienation or estrangement brings about a sense of human frustration, sometimes felt very keenly but more often and with most of us in something like Thoreau's «quiet desperation,» known at moments when we can not sleep or when we are not happy about what we have been doing or thinking.

However, inner desperation was held at bay.

Most christians only remember their faith at a time of desperation or need.

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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:

wails David Carver, the preteen prophet from Desperation, when it becomes clear that his whole family will die at the demon's hands while he is required to live.

Shelley texted me in desperation when her supply ran out because she wanted more, and the rest were at my house.

Luckily a fire extinguisher was at hand in the form of the leftover filling which we spooned into our mouths in desperation.

If you skip breakfast and are not properly prepped at work or at school, your inner hangry beast may easily succumb to a not - so - nourishing pick - me - up simply out of convenience and desperation.

With eight seconds remaining Davidson won a tip - off at midcourt, but Teague missed a desperation jump shot at the buzzer.

Arsenal have recently done well at starting their business relatively early in the summer with a key signing, only to then lose all that transfer momentum and eventually leave Arsenal fans in a state of desperation.

yes mate were desperation levels now were basically that 14 year old kid who coated himself in lynx aftershave spray an gelled his hair, hoping any girl at the prom will look at him.

Wenger has taken almost four years to strengthen four positions with world class players, but at the same time he has also failed to address the areas of desperation, upfront and in defence, for the exact same four year period.