Sentences with phrase «growing desperation»

Obama Campaign: In growing desperation, Democrats flat out lie about Romney, suggesting he's a felon - what are these idiots thinking?

I thought about my father's growing desperation to leave my mother.

Against that I wanted to dramatize Frankie's growing desperation — echoed in so many reports of the time — her desire for her country to pay attention.

In the face of the growing desperation of her Jewish community in Amsterdam, Hillesum found increasing personal freedom through such an interior spiritual journey.

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Customers have grown accustomed to the Sears brand name, after all — and apparently the sadness, desperation, and capitulation that comes with it.

In a world where the have's and the have not's are growing even wider apart it is inevitable that everyday people will be pushed into desperation measures for their personal survival and their dependents.

Already in the mid-1950s awareness was growing that many ministers were either leaving their profession or leading lives of unquiet desperation.

I am from southern CA and grew up on Mexican food and have resorted to making my own tamales in desperation but have recently found decent ones that I can have delivered to my home in the Schwan's truck.

This desperation has made the Neus into innovative farmers — they transitioned to organic in 1990 before Canada had a national organic standard, and they started the first community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Saskatchewan in 2005, which has grown to more than 120 members.

There's basically no sense in allowing a player leave for free.The disgraceful thing is he's our best player and you're letting him go for free.PSG have also given us the chance to include Lucas Moura / Blaise Matuidi in the deal.Why not take Matuidi and run.Then go all out to find his replacement before the season starts.I just don't see sense in keeping him.Common sense tells us that he should be sold.You're not granted the title with or without him and just so you know, teams have won the EPL with wingers who are not better than Sanchez.Arsene should be smart before it's too late.I said weeks ago that if he knows in his heart that he's going to sell he had better do it quickly before teams start placing mammoth prices on their players as they'll know that desperation of suitors grows towards the end of the window.

havent been keeping tabs on him, the more injuries we get the more this site will grow with transfer rumuors in desperation - i despair... pass me my rhubarb crumble an custard jeeves

And in those times of desperation and despair (or just annoyance), a grown - ass man steps up to the plate with a gentle shoulder rub and words of encouragement.

The 34 - year - old Carroll Gardens resident, who purchased a train sign for $ 230.79 on Black Friday as a Christmas gift for his wife, is among a growing group of customers who say they're filing complaints with acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood's office out of desperation.

Osborne's response to today's figures, that it's «good news» that the economy is still growing, smacks of desperation.

Labour MP Wes Streeting said: «This highlights his desperation to cling to office in the face of overwhelming opposition from MPs, a growing number of party members and the majority of trade unionists affiliated to the party.»

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.

In this superbly conceived series, the stakes grow higher, the desperation for victory ever deeper.

(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.)

Her expressive features suggest her mounting anger, guilt and desperation as her business grows but her relationships deteriorate.

Gavin Hood's third feature has inspired comparisons with City Of God, yet his harrowing look at six days in the life of a Soweto thug who accidentally kidnaps and grows attached to a tiny baby shares the weary compassion of last year's Crash as much as the brutal desperation of Fernando Mereilles» acclaimed hit.

As the families comb the neighborhood, collected concern grows into alarm, trembles into panic and then erupts into a fever pitch of all - out terror and desperation.

That is, until the film's third act rolls around and the plot takes an inexplicable turn into slasher territory, an act that reeks of either desperation by the screenwriter or interference by ignorant producers («the audience must be growing restless by now, how about throwing in a deranged serial killer for the astronauts to cope with as well!»)

As graduation approaches and Ozzie's world becomes literally smaller, he struggles to find Tommy with increasing desperation, even as he grows closer to Calvin, the quiet, elusive boy in his physics class.

I can imagine sometimes the desperation for a company to grow.

The cat will grow to accept grooming as a pleasant routine rather than as a desperation - based chore.

I wonder if the cooling earth, the lowering ocean, and the growing polar ice have driven him to desperation; could it be the GISS code about to be cracked?

Rising global temperatures and associated sea level rise, growing season disruption, and increasingly severe weather events can severely damage infrastructure or tear at the fabric of societies — generating conditions of mass desperation the world over.